It’s All #HAPPY (Until Someone Dies)!
A month and some ago I shared thoughts on the ‘Global Happiness Inc’ formed around the #HAPPY videos created for the tune by Will…
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The Unshamenedness of Unshavedness
Recently, the topic of women’s body hair has triggered discussion in the social media. You may remember that Allegra featured the story of the…
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Summer’s CALLING – No boredom in sight!
For those of us who are wondering how to deal with potential boredom in the upcoming summer vacation, Allegra would like to point out…
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Waiting for Tallinn – A conversation with Noel Salazar #EASA2014
In its endeavour to cover the most important events on the anthropology calendar, Allegra approached Noel Salazar, the president of the EASA and Professor…
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A conversation with Judith Beyer, Allegra’s new Reviews editor
Allegra is delighted to welcome on board Judith Beyer as a Review Editor! Judith is an anthropologist specializing in legal and political anthropology. She…
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The Arab Spring: The Imaginary Borders of a ‘Revolution’
To continue our discussion on ‘borders’, Simone Maddanu offers an insight into the permanent liminal time-space in which migrants who left Tunisia after the…
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Piggy-Bank
Several years ago I was a lead researcher on a project studying how faith-based nonprofit service organizations use social capital in their day-to-day functions….
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Lamentations of the Bearded Lady
I am the bearded lady. I am neither whining about my condition nor do I want your pity. For I do not need your…
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LAW & ANTHROPOLOGY CALLING
Fellow Allegrians, aspiring or confirmed anthros, creative spirits: this list of upcoming events and calls for papers and applications has been compiled especially for…
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The American Dream!
For some climbers vans have become the ultimate commodity, a personified good that goes far beyond their initial displacement function. In Spain, well-known…
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Globalisation and its BORDERS
Two particularly significant types of borders divide the global world. There are the national borders separating different countries, and then there are the class…
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A conversation with Heath Cabot on her new book on the Greek asylum crisis #BORDERS
Heath Cabot’s first monograph, entitled « On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece », will come out with the University of Pennsylvania Press,…
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