Alliances Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/alliances/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:30:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Alliances Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/alliances/ 32 32 Unhealthy at the Health Fair: A personal account of chronic illness and disability in the field https://allegralaboratory.net/unhealthy-at-the-health-fair-a-personal-account-of-chronic-illness-and-disability-in-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/unhealthy-at-the-health-fair-a-personal-account-of-chronic-illness-and-disability-in-the-field/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:08:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46344 This reflective essay examines the author’s experience conducting fieldwork while managing chronic illness and disability.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/unhealthy-at-the-health-fair-a-personal-account-of-chronic-illness-and-disability-in-the-field/feed/ 0 Towards a compassionate turn https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-compassionate-turn/ https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-compassionate-turn/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:08:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46381 This article introduces The New Ethnographer’s call for a “compassionate turn” in anthropology, extending the reflexive turn by foregrounding how fieldwork impacts researchers as well as interlocutors.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-a-compassionate-turn/feed/ 0 Through the looking glass: learning to do ethnography with children and their families https://allegralaboratory.net/through-the-looking-glass-learning-to-do-ethnography-with-children-and-their-families/ https://allegralaboratory.net/through-the-looking-glass-learning-to-do-ethnography-with-children-and-their-families/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:08:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46506 In this article, Nieves Galera reflects on the practical and emotional challenges of conducting ethnographic fieldwork with infants and their families.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/through-the-looking-glass-learning-to-do-ethnography-with-children-and-their-families/feed/ 0 The Murky World of ‘Extremism’ Research https://allegralaboratory.net/the-murky-world-of-extremism-research/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-murky-world-of-extremism-research/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:08:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46482 Richard McNeil-Willson critiques sensationalised and unethical approaches to researching so-called “extremist” groups, responding to popular accounts that celebrate deception, infiltration, and personal risk.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-murky-world-of-extremism-research/feed/ 0 The ethnographer’s body is gendered https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46367 Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site of knowledge production and vulnerability.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/feed/ 0 The ethics of mediation in conservation spaces https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-mediation-in-conservation-spaces/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-mediation-in-conservation-spaces/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46374 This article explores the ethical precarity of conducting anthropological research within contested conservation spaces, where moral boundaries are blurred and alliances are unstable.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-mediation-in-conservation-spaces/feed/ 0 Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field? https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:35 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46361 Emanuelle Roth critically examines how institutional risk frameworks reshape ethnographic practice through her experience of being recalled from doctoral fieldwork in Guinea after disclosing a pregnancy.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/feed/ 0 Orientalized Gender and the Field https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46365 Drawing on her Master’s fieldwork in Leipzig, Salma Moustafa Khalil reflects on how orientalism, gender, and racialised assumptions shape ethnographic encounters when a Middle Eastern woman conducts research in Europe.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/feed/ 1 Gender and danger: the ‘good girl persona’ in institutional fieldwork https://allegralaboratory.net/gender-and-danger-the-good-girl-persona-in-institutional-fieldwork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/gender-and-danger-the-good-girl-persona-in-institutional-fieldwork/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46331 This post reflects on contemporary challenges in ethnographic research, foregrounding the everyday ethical, emotional, and institutional pressures that shape fieldwork practice.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/gender-and-danger-the-good-girl-persona-in-institutional-fieldwork/feed/ 0 Friendships Built on (Dis)Trust: Navigating fragility during fieldwork https://allegralaboratory.net/friendships-built-on-distrust-navigating-fragility-during-fieldwork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/friendships-built-on-distrust-navigating-fragility-during-fieldwork/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46359 Hareem Khan examines the fragility and fluidity of friendships formed during ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on trust, distrust, and rupture as constitutive elements of research relationships.

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