Racing for what?
In this post, Ruth Mueller explores how the compulsion for speed in academia plays out in the lives of postdocs. Slow science is interesting…
Read MoreIn this post, Ruth Mueller explores how the compulsion for speed in academia plays out in the lives of postdocs. Slow science is interesting…
Read MoreIn this post, Heather Mendick argues that some calls for slowing down scholarship mask a conservative politics. Last July I blogged about how, despite my…
Read MoreThe Slow Professor originated in telephone conversations about coping with our academic jobs. Not reading an email sent by the department chair at 10:45…
Read MoreThose who have followed Allegra’s adventures from its creation in 2013 will probably remember that our initial motto was “Slow down!”. Prior to launching…
Read MoreOn 22 March 2016, the Belgian city of Brussels suffered three calculated and co-ordinated terrorist attacks in the name of the so-called Islamic State….
Read MoreTo what degree can our biological, genetic and reproductive systems be considered the basis for family relationships? Marshall Sahlins divides his answer to this…
Read MoreDan Berger’s relationship with “America’s political prisoners” (xii) has been personal from the very beginning. At age sixteen and out of historical curiosity, Berger…
Read MoreThe second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and a rewrite of their…
Read MoreThe Color of Modernity. São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil is an ambitious effort to rethink the formation of a…
Read MoreDuring my recent fieldwork in Myanmar, I fell in love with books allover again. Myanmar is a country where everyone reads all the time,…
Read MoreLast month I received an email from an “associate” working at a research institution that caters to the biggest development agencies worldwide: DFID, UN,…
Read MoreLet’s conclude this Allegra week with another one of our monthly events’ post! No thematic focus this time but a few opportunities to further…
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