Jane K. Cowan, Author at Allegra Lab Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:37:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Jane K. Cowan, Author at Allegra Lab 32 32 Anti-hero*ines of international social, political and legal practice: An Introduction https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-of-international-social-political-and-legal-practice-an-introduction/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-of-international-social-political-and-legal-practice-an-introduction/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46825 This thematic thread considers the figure of the anti-hero/anti-heroine and the lens of anti-heroism, and proposes a heuristic reformulation, the anti-hero*ine, to grasp more acutely the complexities and ambiguities in the interplay of power, agency and morality in relation to contemporary struggles for justice, rights, and social change.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-of-international-social-political-and-legal-practice-an-introduction/feed/ 0 Words, numbers, culture: Thinking with Sally Merry at the Universal Periodic Review https://allegralaboratory.net/words-numbers-culture-thinking-with-sally-merry-at-the-universal-periodic-review/ https://allegralaboratory.net/words-numbers-culture-thinking-with-sally-merry-at-the-universal-periodic-review/#respond Mon, 26 Apr 2021 05:13:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36112 Jane K. Cowan (University of Sussex) will give a talk titled ‘Words, numbers, culture: Thinking with Sally Merry at the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/words-numbers-culture-thinking-with-sally-merry-at-the-universal-periodic-review/feed/ 0 Essential Readings #ErkkoLecture https://allegralaboratory.net/essential-readings-erkkolecture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/essential-readings-erkkolecture/#respond Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:32:44 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=29500 I am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/essential-readings-erkkolecture/feed/ 0 On the UK Referendum https://allegralaboratory.net/on-the-uk-referendum-brexit/ https://allegralaboratory.net/on-the-uk-referendum-brexit/#respond Wed, 06 Jul 2016 06:00:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=20226 For me, the UK referendum story began a year ago with another referendum: that of Greece. Elected in January 2015 […]

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