We can smell summer. Or we smell like summer. Either way, for the Allegra collective, it’s now the start of a break until September. No new content will be published until then.
…talking of things breaking, our site has been doing that quite a bit lately. And whilst we’ve been doing a bit of firefighting, throwing all our ice creams at the mess to dampen the flames, our site needs a complete overhaul. Something that will be done by the peerless Gennady Kurushin.
But for that, we need (your) money.
As you know, Allegra advocates for slow scholarship and rejects the nonsense of impact factors and rankings. We are no longer a blog, haven’t been one for years, but rather an online multimodal publication platform that practises care reviews. We publish scores of essays and thematic series each year and mobilise an equal number of friends and allies to carefully review our content. We want this labour of love to be acknowledged and cited a bit more than it is. We therefore decided to get DOIs for all our publications from the autumn (but don’t worry, we will remain a ranker free zone).
All this needs money: you can donate via this link here or by scanning the QR code which will lead you to the Paypal account of Les Indépendantes, the Swiss-based feminist association that hosts Allegra. We can’t say this enough, the donations we get really mean a lot to us. We love anthropology and want to find as many different ways of doing anthropology as possible. In general, we do it amazingly cheaply, but every now and again we need a little cash to pay the bills. We’re grateful for whatever you can spare.
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