Book Review Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/reviews/book-review/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:26:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Book Review Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/reviews/book-review/ 32 32 Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/ https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:11:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47701 Midway through a recent coffee with a brilliant colleague, our conversation turned, as they so often do, to the various […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/feed/ 0 Call for Reviewers: Solidarities, Hope and Care https://allegralaboratory.net/call-for-reviewers-solidarities-hope-and-care/ https://allegralaboratory.net/call-for-reviewers-solidarities-hope-and-care/#respond Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:01:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47632 In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/call-for-reviewers-solidarities-hope-and-care/feed/ 0 Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47071 Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/feed/ 0 Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories https://allegralaboratory.net/architectures-of-colonialism-constructed-histories-conflicting-memories/ https://allegralaboratory.net/architectures-of-colonialism-constructed-histories-conflicting-memories/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46632 Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir. 2024. Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories. Berlin: De Gruyter […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/architectures-of-colonialism-constructed-histories-conflicting-memories/feed/ 0 The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe https://allegralaboratory.net/the-killing-of-gaza-reports-on-a-catastrophe/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-killing-of-gaza-reports-on-a-catastrophe/#respond Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46622 Gideon Levy. 2024. The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. New York: Verso. In The Killing of Gaza: Reports on […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-killing-of-gaza-reports-on-a-catastrophe/feed/ 0 British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945 https://allegralaboratory.net/british-culture-after-empire-race-decolonisation-and-migration-since-1945/ https://allegralaboratory.net/british-culture-after-empire-race-decolonisation-and-migration-since-1945/#respond Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46228 Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker, eds. 2024. British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/british-culture-after-empire-race-decolonisation-and-migration-since-1945/feed/ 0 Reading Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine in Times of Genocide https://allegralaboratory.net/reading-elastic-empire-refashioning-war-through-aid-in-palestine-in-times-of-genocide/ https://allegralaboratory.net/reading-elastic-empire-refashioning-war-through-aid-in-palestine-in-times-of-genocide/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46161 Lisa Bhungalia. 2023. Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Israel kills 59 Palestinians in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/reading-elastic-empire-refashioning-war-through-aid-in-palestine-in-times-of-genocide/feed/ 0 Pillaging Palestine: Policy, Property, and Plunder in the Creation of the State of Israel https://allegralaboratory.net/pillaging-palestine-policy-property-and-plunder-in-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pillaging-palestine-policy-property-and-plunder-in-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel/#respond Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46153 Adam Raz, 2024. Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property. New York: Verso. Adam Raz’s Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property is a […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pillaging-palestine-policy-property-and-plunder-in-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel/feed/ 0 Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/ https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/#respond Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45670 Hafsa Kanjwal. 2023. Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Decolonization across the so-called Global South led […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/feed/ 0 Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture https://allegralaboratory.net/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-in-israeli-agriculture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-in-israeli-agriculture/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:27:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45660 Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is […]

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