Buses, Metros, Shoes & Confusing Journeys
This week we continue our thread on fieldnotes via four posts that all in their own way elaborate this thread’s overarching theme: journey. As…
Read MoreThis week we continue our thread on fieldnotes via four posts that all in their own way elaborate this thread’s overarching theme: journey. As…
Read MoreAlbertin Sarrazin once wrote, “whether you’re on the lam or whether you’re out hustling, gold is worth nothing compared to silence” (p.149). Those marginalised…
Read MoreThe subject of EXPO 2015 is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, which coincides with the “European Year for Development”. The European page contains…
Read MoreToday we are very excited at Allegra – we continue our experimentation with serving you, dear readers, exotic and delicious slow food for thought….
Read MoreAllegra’s thematic thread on #postsocialism is coming to its end. We hope that the eight delicious specialties Allegra served you over the past two…
Read MorePatterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways…
Read MoreThis project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after the collapse of the…
Read MoreIn contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the sub-discipline since the 1990s….
Read MoreThis piece explores the activities of Afghan merchants in the former Soviet Union especially Tajikistan in Central Asia and Russia and Ukraine. It brings…
Read MoreWhat is 19cm high, 20cm wide, weighs only 680grams but carries a President? Right – it’s the Russian Bear! And what is flying high…
Read MoreEvery once in a while we have to remind ourselves of the motto that governs Allegra’s operations: our Academic Slow Food Manifesto. What can we…
Read MoreToday we re-post our conversation with Judith Beyer from a joint virtual roundtable with Anthropoliteia. In her commentary, Judith answers the question: “What has…
Read More