One-Shots Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/one-shots/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:43:02 +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 Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48547 During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/feed/ 0 Over 2,100 Hours of Silence: The Battle to Speak in the Name of Iran’s People https://allegralaboratory.net/over-2100-hours-of-silence-the-battle-to-speak-in-the-name-of-irans-people/ https://allegralaboratory.net/over-2100-hours-of-silence-the-battle-to-speak-in-the-name-of-irans-people/#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:42:01 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48379 This fieldnote examines Iran's internet shutdown — 2,100 hours accumulated over an eighty-eight-day near-total blackout, the longest documented outage in contemporary world history — not as a technical failure but as a political form.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/over-2100-hours-of-silence-the-battle-to-speak-in-the-name-of-irans-people/feed/ 0 The Cost of Harm to Indigenous Land and Water: Compensation, Cultural Loss, and the Limits of Government Repair https://allegralaboratory.net/the-cost-of-harm-to-indigenous-land-and-water-compensation-cultural-loss-and-the-limits-of-government-repair/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-cost-of-harm-to-indigenous-land-and-water-compensation-cultural-loss-and-the-limits-of-government-repair/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:02:28 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48396 This article examines the McArthur River Mine Native Title compensation ruling as a landmark case in the recognition of Aboriginal cultural harm in Australia.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-cost-of-harm-to-indigenous-land-and-water-compensation-cultural-loss-and-the-limits-of-government-repair/feed/ 0 Code from nowhere https://allegralaboratory.net/code-from-nowhere/ https://allegralaboratory.net/code-from-nowhere/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:30:53 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48214 This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/code-from-nowhere/feed/ 0 Fight, Flight, Freeze, Film https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/ https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:39:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48356 This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/feed/ 0 Strengthening Women’s Financial Rights After Marriage: Matrimonial Property under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:12:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48377 While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of women’s rights to matrimonial property has been uncharted territory.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/feed/ 0 Notes From Unsettling Ground https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-unsettling-ground/ https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-unsettling-ground/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:38:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47950 What do we owe the people who hand us their stories?

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/notes-from-unsettling-ground/feed/ 0 Invisible Flight: Privileged Mobility and the Hidden Geography of Displacement https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:15:05 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48109 This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration regimes.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/feed/ 0 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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