Anthropology between Book and Blog
Anthropology between Book and Blog – Evaluation Criteria and Communication in Academia. Talk on the Occasion of Allegra Lab’s Website […]
Essay One-Shots
My Parents’ Material (and Immaterial) Labor: Notes on Duty, Love, and Privilege in Fieldwork
Anxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for
‘B2Gold has to go!’ Rancho Grande’s Struggle against a Canadian open pit gold mine in Northern Nicaragua
In October 2014, three yellow school buses with young anti-mining activists from ecclesiastic grassroots communities from all over Nicaragua ploughed
Paul Gilroy: “The history of our movement against racism has to be understood as an asset in the consolidation of Europe’s beleaguered democracy”
Paul Gilroy is known as a path-breaking scholar and historian of the music of the Black Atlantic diaspora, as a
ACADEMIC BLOGGING – WHO / WHAT IS IT FOR?! #RELAUNCH
By now many of our devoted Allies may have gathered that ‘something’s up!’ The changing Facebook profile, hints of ‘something
Boredom at #EASA2014
On August 2nd, 2014, Allegra ran a panel titled ‘Boredom, Intimacy and Governance in ‘Normalized’ Times of Crisis’ at
‘Exception’, solidarity, and conferral politics: crossroads of the ‘Greek’ crisis
This short piece aims to touch on how our overview of the ‘Greek’ crisis can benefit from anthropological approaches, especially
Dealing with reality and falsehood in the field
As Craig Larkin already noticed in one of his studies, in human events the tension between what is said and
On History and Anthropology – An interview with Claudio Lomnitz
Anastasia Martino interviews Claudio Lomnitz on the relationship between history and anthropology, the Mexican revolution and the role of the
Leipzig 100: Super Model Epilogue with Savage
In his epilogue to the series of papers of the centenary symposium, Immo Eulenberger, a native of Leipzig who had