‘Good’ celebrity: more harm than good?
A while back our contributor Antonio de Lauri drew our attention on the myth of the ‘good poor’ and how we may have collectively thought to have…
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(Slow) Food for Thoughts: Ingold on Anthropology, Art and Self-Transformation
Tim Ingold has been a great source of inspiration to us recently, adding many ‘food for thoughts’ to ALLEGRA’s slow cuisine. Since good products…
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CALLS calls CALLS
Just in case there is still anyone out there without funding (a bit of light humour to brighten our dark professional times if you…
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Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution: #EASA2014 Conference
A sneak preview into the 13th EASA Biennial Conference organized at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia 31st July – 3rd August, 2014 with…
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Sin of Cain
In the face of new beginnings it is always useful to look back at how things got started in the first place. With these…
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Love, Gender, Intimacy, Sexuality and Law
As one of our aims is to keep a pulse on the (scholarly) feeling of the moment, we wanted to share these recent encounters…
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Orientalism after Said
We just came across the last filmed interview of Edward Said, made available on the blog of Verso Books on the occasion of the…
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NEW Beginning: The London Review of International Law
It is our great pleasure to welcome the first issue of The London Review of International Law; a journal what promises to become one…
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(SLOW) Food for Thought: End of an Era?
Are we approaching the end of an era? A few prominent voices around us certainly seem to think so. In a recent interview in…
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JOURNAL of Legal Anthropology: New Issue & Call for papers
Issue 3 of the Journal of Legal Anthropology has just come out! It features articles from Melanie Griffiths, Maya Unnithan, Nebi Bardhoshi and Allegra moderator Miia Halme-Tuomisaari. In…
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A Philosophical History of Manhunt
Grégoire Chamayou, Manhunts: A Philosophical History. Translated by Steven Rendall. Princeton University Press. 2012. This book, originally published in French at La Fabrique, written…
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Paperwork and Modernity
Having a lot to do does not always mean having a lot of power, but having a lot of power always means having a…
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