Building Aidland: Aid Workers and the Creation of a Global Aid Industry in the 1970s
In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We – this is Till Mostowlansky,…
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Scholarly Podcasting Book: Invitation to a Public Mass Peer Review
I (Ian, member of the Allegra Lab editorial collective) ‘wrote’ a book called ‘Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How?’. It’ll come out in autumn. I…
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Call for Reviews: Life at the edges in a changing world
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started more than two years ago, time has been put on hold and precarity has become an even more common…
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On the use and abuse of networks in academia
Like most anthropologists, we have been watching events unfold at Harvard University’s anthropology department over the past weeks: accusations of abuse; letters in support…
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Who cares? Peer-review at Allegra
At Allegra, we believe and know from our own experience that the fresh eyes of our peers can help us improve drafts, weed out…
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From Things and Stuff to Radically Optimist Multi-Modal Platform
On May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the workshop “Multimodal Digital Publishing”…
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ResonanceCast #2: Incitement and Coups
Podcast with Jastinder Kaur and Daniel White, moderated by Ian M. Cook Allegra Lab · ResonanceCast 2: Incitement And Coups Referenced articles:…
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Incitement! Incremental Theory for an Imminent Fascism
The breaching of the US Capitol Building on 6 January 2021 and broadly publicised reactions to it make it clearer than ever: within the…
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Towards an Anthropology of Coups
When is a coup a coup? Reflections on the anthropological study of ‘coups’ There have been more than 200 coups in 95 countries over…
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ResonanceCast
ResonanceCast is a new multimodal series that seeks to tease out timely shared concerns. After their articles have been published on Allegra Lab, we…
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ResonanceCast #1: Vulnerability
Podcast with Pascale Schild and Sandhya Fuchs, moderated by Ian M. Cook Allegra Lab · ResonanceCast #1 Vulnerability Referenced articles: Reciprocal Vulnerability in…
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Reciprocal Vulnerability in the Face of Patriarchal Violence
“Everything is research data.” As PhD students we must have heard this statement from teachers, mentors, and supervisors a hundred times. The advice points…
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