LGBT Advocacy in Northern Ireland
In the summer of 2008, Iris Robinson had a lot to say about homosexuality. On 6 June, in a radio interview, the Northern Ireland…
Read MoreIn the summer of 2008, Iris Robinson had a lot to say about homosexuality. On 6 June, in a radio interview, the Northern Ireland…
Read MoreI am not alone in using music medicinally. The use of music’s mood altering properties was one of the themes to emerge out of…
Read MoreBernardo: Who’s there? Francisco: Nay, answer me: stand and unfold yourself! [i] These opening lines of Shakespeare’s Hamlet create a scenario of first and strange…
Read MoreYellow Bar, Mukono, Central Uganda; February 2010. It is Saturday night in Mukono on the outskirts of Kampala city. The bustle of the trading…
Read MoreOn arriving at Oulu, Finland’s airport, signs somewhat cheekily announce “You’re in a smart city.” The proud reference to Oulu’s ranking as one of…
Read MoreAfter a few heavy weeks – violence, borders, Kurdish disapora – this week will feature something lighter, perhaps. For this week will be Allegra’s first…
Read MoreThis week, Allegra investigates a difficult subject: violence and suffering as these are experienced on the margins and peripheries of the late modern world….
Read MoreIt has been a stimulating week at Allegra, with many fabulous posts by anthropologists working on ‘violence’. If you missed it, do not panic:…
Read MoreGilgit Town, the administrative capital of the impoverished, neglected and semi-autonomous Gilgit-Baltistan region in northern Pakistan, has been at the heart of nearly 30…
Read MoreThe African continent has been at the forefront of experiments with transitional justice. There have been amnesties, truth commissions, criminal trials and supposedly localized…
Read MoreI first visited Lyari in August 2012 when I joined Laurent Gayer in conducting a focus group discussion with members of a community-based organization,…
Read MoreBrief extract from a forthcoming publication Over the past decades, the rapid rise of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in India has placed women…
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