Viola Castellano, Author at Allegra Lab Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 27 May 2026 12:02:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Viola Castellano, Author at Allegra Lab 32 32 1: VISA https://allegralaboratory.net/visa/ https://allegralaboratory.net/visa/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:31:23 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46875 Backway to Europe is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Gambian advocates and activists. It centers their analyses of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/visa/feed/ 0 2: SEMESTERS https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/ https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:11:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47152 The second episode explores the material and symbolic motivations for Gambian youth choosing the backway to Europe, contrasting the modern, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/semesters/feed/ 0 3: JOURNEY https://allegralaboratory.net/journey/ https://allegralaboratory.net/journey/#respond Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:09:56 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47203 In this episode YAIM members retrace their perilous backway journey towards Europe in 2016/2017, across West African borders into Libya, highlighting the systemic […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/journey/feed/ 0 4: Detention https://allegralaboratory.net/detention/ https://allegralaboratory.net/detention/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:49:37 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47397 In this episode, YAIM members recount their experience of detention in Tariq al Sikka, one of Libya’s official detention centers, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/detention/feed/ 0 5: Return https://allegralaboratory.net/return/ https://allegralaboratory.net/return/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:56:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47476 In this episode, YAIM members describe how they kept their sanity inside Tariq al Sikka through music, shared prayers, and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/return/feed/ 0 6: (Neo)colonialism https://allegralaboratory.net/neocolonialism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/neocolonialism/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:23:27 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47600 In this episode, the conversation turns to the structural conditions that make the backway feel like the only viable option […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/neocolonialism/feed/ 0 7: Advocacy https://allegralaboratory.net/advocacy/ https://allegralaboratory.net/advocacy/#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:58:40 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47603 In this final episode, the conversation turns to advocacy – what it means to do it from within a country shaped […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/advocacy/feed/ 0 Encountering Precarities: The Podcast https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/ https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:55:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40486 Allegra Editor Ian sits down with Thread guest editors Viola Castellano & Olivia Casagrande to discuss ‘Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/feed/ 0 Unfinished adulthood: discontinuous precarities as epistemic opportunities https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood-discontinuous-precarities-as-epistemic-opportunities/ https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood-discontinuous-precarities-as-epistemic-opportunities/#respond Thu, 04 May 2023 10:00:34 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40076 This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood-discontinuous-precarities-as-epistemic-opportunities/feed/ 0 Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-ethnography-spurious-solidarity-and-neoliberal-academia/ https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-ethnography-spurious-solidarity-and-neoliberal-academia/#respond Tue, 02 May 2023 08:00:18 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40011 In the wake of calls for responsibility and for ‘Raising our voice’ (AAA 2020), early-career researchers’ in anthropology risk to […]

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