Mateusz Laszczkowski, Author at Allegra Lab Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 17 May 2022 11:10:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Mateusz Laszczkowski, Author at Allegra Lab 32 32 Brave New Normal World https://allegralaboratory.net/brave-new-normal-world/ https://allegralaboratory.net/brave-new-normal-world/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:00:31 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=33248 When politicians begin to speak of a post-corona “new normality”, what does that imply? And why should we be concerned? […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/brave-new-normal-world/feed/ 0 The return of the plague-spreader https://allegralaboratory.net/the-return-of-the-plague-spreader/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-return-of-the-plague-spreader/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:00:51 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=32635 Written in lockdown amid the pandemic, this post speculates about the political and epistemological implications of ‘middle-class’ reactions to the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-return-of-the-plague-spreader/feed/ 2 What’s in a Name? From Astana to Nursultan https://allegralaboratory.net/whats-in-a-name-from-astana-to-nursultan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/whats-in-a-name-from-astana-to-nursultan/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:00:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=30669 What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/whats-in-a-name-from-astana-to-nursultan/feed/ 0 Anthropology? What ‘Anthropology’? https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-what-anthropology/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-what-anthropology/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:50:27 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=30260 In September 2018, Jarosław Gowin, Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, abolished anthropology as an academic discipline by an […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-what-anthropology/feed/ 4 The Nerds’ Turn: Battling for a Democratic Academia in Poland https://allegralaboratory.net/the-nerds-turn-battling-for-a-democratic-academia-in-poland/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-nerds-turn-battling-for-a-democratic-academia-in-poland/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:00:34 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=27959 As students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-nerds-turn-battling-for-a-democratic-academia-in-poland/feed/ 3 Notes from a blurry border (Part 1): Can that mountain stop me? https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-a-blurry-border-part-1-can-that-mountain-stop-me/ https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-a-blurry-border-part-1-can-that-mountain-stop-me/#respond Tue, 17 Apr 2018 07:02:13 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=27561 While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-a-blurry-border-part-1-can-that-mountain-stop-me/feed/ 0 Notes from a Blurry Border (part 2): Shatter the border! https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-a-blurry-border-part-2-shatter-the-border/ https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-a-blurry-border-part-2-shatter-the-border/#respond Tue, 17 Apr 2018 07:00:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=27563 While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-a-blurry-border-part-2-shatter-the-border/feed/ 0 Border Work by Madeleine Reeves https://allegralaboratory.net/review-border-work-by-madeleine-reeves/ https://allegralaboratory.net/review-border-work-by-madeleine-reeves/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2015 06:00:37 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=8125 In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if  object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the […]

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