Fieldnote Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/one-shots/fieldnote/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:34:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Fieldnote Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/one-shots/fieldnote/ 32 32 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 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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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/enactment-of-hope-in-sit-in-protest-in-henoko-okinawa/feed/ 0 She braids, I listen https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/ https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45219 I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/feed/ 0 Syria in transition: Impressions from Damascus after the toppling of the Assad regime https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/ https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44593 This post was written in February 2025. In late January 2025, just under two months after the toppling of the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/feed/ 1 The Temporality of Violence — Affect, Atmospheres and contested Frameworks in the Study of Colonial Collections  https://allegralaboratory.net/the-temporality-of-violence-affect-atmospheres-and-contested-frameworks-in-the-study-of-colonial-collections/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-temporality-of-violence-affect-atmospheres-and-contested-frameworks-in-the-study-of-colonial-collections/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:19:30 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43834 We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-temporality-of-violence-affect-atmospheres-and-contested-frameworks-in-the-study-of-colonial-collections/feed/ 0 Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia https://allegralaboratory.net/of-home-and-ghosts-notes-on-iraqi-art-and-imperial-nostalgia/ https://allegralaboratory.net/of-home-and-ghosts-notes-on-iraqi-art-and-imperial-nostalgia/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:03:08 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43660 “Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/of-home-and-ghosts-notes-on-iraqi-art-and-imperial-nostalgia/feed/ 0 Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine https://allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-in-concrete-and-steel-infrastructure-and-the-war-in-ukraine/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-in-concrete-and-steel-infrastructure-and-the-war-in-ukraine/#respond Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43487 In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-in-concrete-and-steel-infrastructure-and-the-war-in-ukraine/feed/ 0 The Social Act We Call Memory  https://allegralaboratory.net/the-social-act-we-call-memory/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-social-act-we-call-memory/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43459 It’s a cold early-winter morning in South Brooklyn. The streets are empty. My friend Gabe explains that it’s only a […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-social-act-we-call-memory/feed/ 0 The coopting of ‘participation’ in development discourse: observations from the ground https://allegralaboratory.net/haile-the-coopting-of-participation/ https://allegralaboratory.net/haile-the-coopting-of-participation/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:43:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41408 When concepts such as ‘participation’ that emanated from radical movements with the objective of transforming social relations and power structures […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/haile-the-coopting-of-participation/feed/ 0 Two sides of the same Euro: A field note on recent farmer protests from southern Italy https://allegralaboratory.net/two-sides-of-the-same-euro-a-field-note-on-recent-farmer-protests-from-southern-italy/ https://allegralaboratory.net/two-sides-of-the-same-euro-a-field-note-on-recent-farmer-protests-from-southern-italy/#respond Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:00:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41349 Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of […]

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