Julie Billaud, 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 Julie Billaud, 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 Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within https://allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-silence-is-destroying-european-universities-from-within/ https://allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-silence-is-destroying-european-universities-from-within/#respond Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:59:13 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46197 The camera shows a deserted, dilapidated room somewhere in war-torn Ukraine. On an intercepted phone call a Russian soldier argues […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-silence-is-destroying-european-universities-from-within/feed/ 0 How South Africa rescued humanity (and International Law) at the International Court of Justice https://allegralaboratory.net/how-south-africa-rescued-humanity-and-international-law-at-the-international-court-of-justice/ https://allegralaboratory.net/how-south-africa-rescued-humanity-and-international-law-at-the-international-court-of-justice/#respond Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:28:59 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41196 Since the creation of the United Nations, and in line with the civilizing mission’s rhetoric used to justify colonialism, racist […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/how-south-africa-rescued-humanity-and-international-law-at-the-international-court-of-justice/feed/ 0 Humanitarian Technologies of Trust  https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarian-techniques-of-trust/ https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarian-techniques-of-trust/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:55:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39273 “Trust in humanitarian action” was the top item on the agenda of the 33rd international conference of the Red Cross […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarian-techniques-of-trust/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 Heeding anthropological mottos in the study of law https://allegralaboratory.net/heeding-anthropological-mottos-in-the-study-of-law/ https://allegralaboratory.net/heeding-anthropological-mottos-in-the-study-of-law/#respond Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:17:48 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35173 When: 11 December 2020 / 2-3.30 pm CET Link: https://zoom.us/j/93210372616… ID: 93210372616 Password: 4JzWZ6 Abstract Even though I have been […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/heeding-anthropological-mottos-in-the-study-of-law/feed/ 0 Coronavirus: Less Humanitarianism, More Politics! https://allegralaboratory.net/coronavirus-less-humanitarianism-more-politics-corona/ https://allegralaboratory.net/coronavirus-less-humanitarianism-more-politics-corona/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:00:33 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=32648 This essay was written seated on my couch, trying to make sense of the contemporary ‘state of emergency’ as the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/coronavirus-less-humanitarianism-more-politics-corona/feed/ 1 Muslim Humanitarianism: An Afterword https://allegralaboratory.net/muslim-humanitarianism-an-afterword-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/muslim-humanitarianism-an-afterword-muhum/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:35:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31128 What kind of practices, forms of moral reasoning and ethical orientation does Muslim humanitarianism entail? In what contexts and in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/muslim-humanitarianism-an-afterword-muhum/feed/ 0 The Bureaucratization of Utopia – A Report https://allegralaboratory.net/the-bureaucratization-of-utopia-a-report-redux/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-bureaucratization-of-utopia-a-report-redux/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:20:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=29577 Our students do not dream of global change anymore! It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-bureaucratization-of-utopia-a-report-redux/feed/ 0 Call for Reviews: #AnthroState #Africa https://allegralaboratory.net/call-for-reviews-anthrostate-africa/ https://allegralaboratory.net/call-for-reviews-anthrostate-africa/#respond Wed, 17 Jan 2018 08:00:41 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=26999 As we start into 2018, we seize the opportunity of this post by Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan on […]

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