Fiona Murphy, Author at Allegra Lab Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:06:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Fiona Murphy, Author at Allegra Lab 32 32 Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-footnote-citation-as-disruption-in-creative-anthropology/ https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-footnote-citation-as-disruption-in-creative-anthropology/#respond Tue, 13 May 2025 09:03:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44934 Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work  “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-footnote-citation-as-disruption-in-creative-anthropology/feed/ 0 An ode to being wrong about creativity https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/ https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:27:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44418 “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/feed/ 0 Empathy and dialogue: embracing the art of creative review https://allegralaboratory.net/empathy-and-dialogue-embracing-the-art-of-creative-review/ https://allegralaboratory.net/empathy-and-dialogue-embracing-the-art-of-creative-review/#respond Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43947 Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/empathy-and-dialogue-embracing-the-art-of-creative-review/feed/ 0 Being Fungible – They Only Want Us from the Neck Down https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/ https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:30:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43904 They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/feed/ 0 Refusing genocide and academic complicity https://allegralaboratory.net/refusing-genocide-and-academic-complicity-why-anthropologists-should-support-the-motion-to-suspend-collaborations-with-israeli-academic-institutions/ https://allegralaboratory.net/refusing-genocide-and-academic-complicity-why-anthropologists-should-support-the-motion-to-suspend-collaborations-with-israeli-academic-institutions/#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=42896 Why should anthropologists support the motion to suspend collaborations with Israeli academic institutions? And why did a group of EASA […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/refusing-genocide-and-academic-complicity-why-anthropologists-should-support-the-motion-to-suspend-collaborations-with-israeli-academic-institutions/feed/ 0 Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home https://allegralaboratory.net/ordinary-treasures-objects-from-home/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ordinary-treasures-objects-from-home/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:00:01 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40611 I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ordinary-treasures-objects-from-home/feed/ 0 becoming legal https://allegralaboratory.net/review-becoming-legal/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:00:01 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=26509 The cover-image of Ruth Gomberg-Munoz’s book Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed Status Families depicts a group of protestors holding […]

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]]> Counting our Losses: Reflections from a Newton Fund/British Council Workshop on Loss and Displacement https://allegralaboratory.net/counting-our-losses-reflections-from-a-newton-fundbritish-council-workshop-on-loss-and-displacement-newtonloss/ https://allegralaboratory.net/counting-our-losses-reflections-from-a-newton-fundbritish-council-workshop-on-loss-and-displacement-newtonloss/#respond Sat, 03 Dec 2016 08:00:01 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22136 The past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/counting-our-losses-reflections-from-a-newton-fundbritish-council-workshop-on-loss-and-displacement-newtonloss/feed/ 0 #Review: Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age – REDUX https://allegralaboratory.net/review-child-migration-and-human-rights-in-a-global-age/ https://allegralaboratory.net/review-child-migration-and-human-rights-in-a-global-age/#respond Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:00:29 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=15735 Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/review-child-migration-and-human-rights-in-a-global-age/feed/ 0 After Charlie Hebdo: complex media cultures and the limits of liberalism https://allegralaboratory.net/after-charlie-hebdo-complex-media-cultures-and-the-limits-of-liberalism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/after-charlie-hebdo-complex-media-cultures-and-the-limits-of-liberalism/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2015 06:00:56 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=14025                                         […]

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