Tribute to Jane Cowan for her 60th Birthday
Today Allegra pays tribute to an extraordinary scholar and person – Jane Cowan! Jane Cowan is Professor of Social […]
Public Engagement vs. The Ontological Turn
It’s taken me a while to mentally unpack my experiences from the 2013 AAA conference. The conference itself came at
Inspirational Holiday Reading: Allegra’s best hits for Fall 2013
As we have said before, we are working hard here in Allegra to find clever & inspiring ways to tackle
Vermin, pigs and virtuous donkeys: trying the borders of humanity
In law, much and according to some too much is taken for granted. The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of
Toward the Anthropology of Boredom – REDUX!
To conclude the first ever ‘Allegra Virtual Retreat of Slow Food for Thought’ (AVRoSFfT) we are recycling a post of
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THE GOOD POOR, THE GENEROUS CELEBRITY, AND OTHER DRAMAS
We thought that the myth of the ‘good savage’ was behind us. We were wrong. It has simply multiplied. A
Let’s Take it SLOW!
Allegra has now been up and running for approximately three months – a period in which SO much has happened!
BIBLIOGRAPHY on Human Rights (Law) etc
We feel that it has by now become evident what we hope to do with Allegra: to both highlight ongoing
Open Access, Wiki-PR and Nietzsche (courtesy of Kelly Grotke)
This particular piece of slow food for thought on a very current theme came via our ‘friends’ at Facebook –
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‘Good’ celebrity: more harm than good?
A while back our contributor Antonio de Lauri drew our attention on the myth of the ‘good poor’ and how we may have