Gavin Weston on Superheroes, Lynching and Vigilantism
ALLEGRA: Gavin, Allegra is delighted to have you onboard as a contributor. Not only because you are a legal anthropologist […]
WORKING IN FASHION – PRECARITY AND PASSION
As part of my doctoral research on workers in the fashion industry in Paris and Brussels, I conducted fieldwork for
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
Genner Llanes-Ortiz on “ECOCENTRIX”
Genner Llanes-Ortiz is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Indigeneity in the Contemporary World project based at Royal
In search of ‘Entertainment’ at the UN (3/5)
This is a phenomenally impersonal and detached forum for addressing what really are issues of life and death for millions
Conversation One-Shots
MEET our contributor: Kaius Tuori
ALLEGRA:Â So, Kaius Tuori, we heard that you recently received a new position – Congratulations! Would you mind telling just what
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 –
From ‘REAL’ Reality to ‘UN’ Reality (Part 2/5)
In UN treaty body proceedings members of the bodies regularly mention – after they are done with elaborate rounds of
Susan Bibler Coutin on the future of political and legal anthropology
Susan Bibler Coutin is the president of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology. A few weeks before the annual
Note One-Shots
‘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