Guessing, Wandering, Learning
This interactive piece was inspired by a year of teaching myself Old English, and my interest in the interactive ethnography, The Long Day of…
Read MoreThis interactive piece was inspired by a year of teaching myself Old English, and my interest in the interactive ethnography, The Long Day of…
Read MoreLet me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once more. Along with him,…
Read MoreI’ll start with the most embarrassingly candid disclosure one could possibly make in the context of this thematic week: I am not such a…
Read MoreIn October 2018, I went to a ‘Black travel symposium’ in Brussels. Its aim was to bring together travel writers, bloggers and photographers to…
Read MoreIn September 2018, Jarosław Gowin, Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, abolished anthropology as an academic discipline by an executive decree. The much-protested…
Read MoreAllegra Lab asks its readers to please consider giving their signatures to a collective letter we have drafted to the Minister of Science…
Read MoreThe green economy is supposed to reduce environmental degradation while supporting sustainable development within the framework of neoliberal markets by incorporating accountability into the…
Read MoreRegulation and the Archipelago Sea ”You are looking at the last generation of coastal fishers!” a fisherman told me, as I was getting my…
Read MoreWhether it’s our disposable coffee cup or the vanilla flavouring in the coffee; this morning’s shaving cream or last week’s false nails; lifesaving medicines…
Read MoreUrgency and Transition Environmentalism is rhetorically framed as a “Good Thing”, unquestionably. Being environmentally friendly is, as it were, a no-brainer. Anthropologists have shown…
Read MoreThe village of Chololo is situated around 40km South-East of the political capital of Tanzania, Dodoma. Often described as the poorest in the country,…
Read MoreA warm lunchtime in Sheffield, a city of half a million people in the north of England. It is late October and unseasonably sunny….
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