One-Shots Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/one-shots/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 22 May 2026 14:29:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png One-Shots Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/one-shots/ 32 32 Health justice two ways: examples from the field https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 15:43:41 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47856 Through storytelling for health, the authors provide examples of different practices designed for justice and connection, community acupuncture and ethnographically informed research.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/feed/ 0 What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/#respond Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47779 Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/feed/ 0 Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/ https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:11:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47701 Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/feed/ 0 Ethnography Beyond Earth: Coloniality, Outer Space, and Anthropological Imagination https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/#respond Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47540 What is at stake in engaging outer space ethnographically when colonial histories and power structures continue to shape its exploration and imagination?

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/feed/ 0 Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere a Wall https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/ https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:59:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47485 On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/feed/ 0 Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/ https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:35:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47415 Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/feed/ 0 “There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/ https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:15:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47443 This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/feed/ 0 Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art of Living Together: Timor-Leste’s Aspirational School Curriculum https://allegralaboratory.net/permaculture-pedagogies-and-the-art-of-living-together-timor-lestes-aspirational-school-curriculum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/permaculture-pedagogies-and-the-art-of-living-together-timor-lestes-aspirational-school-curriculum/#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:33:01 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47221 In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/permaculture-pedagogies-and-the-art-of-living-together-timor-lestes-aspirational-school-curriculum/feed/ 0 When the Ground Refuses to Settle: Living with Unfinished Landscapes in the Western Ghats  https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/ https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/#respond Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:29:23 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46749 On the national highway that cuts across the lower slopes of the Western Ghats, the surface itself is rarely the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/feed/ 0 Enactment of Hope in Sit-in Protest in Henoko, Okinawa https://allegralaboratory.net/enactment-of-hope-in-sit-in-protest-in-henoko-okinawa/ https://allegralaboratory.net/enactment-of-hope-in-sit-in-protest-in-henoko-okinawa/#respond Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:40:32 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46268 “We are the only people in the world who feel very happy when a typhoon comes. Do you know why? […]

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