Corona Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/corona/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:31:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Corona Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/corona/ 32 32 The Ethnographer’s Catch 22 https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-catch-22/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-catch-22/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:00:56 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35081   Did I hear a knock at my door? I stopped what I was doing, listening more attentively. South Africa […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-catch-22/feed/ 1 Idols that ring hollow https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-idols-that-ring-hollow/ https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-idols-that-ring-hollow/#respond Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:00:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35068 For the occasion of this year’s Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, the likeness of a migrant woman was chosen for […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-idols-that-ring-hollow/feed/ 0 Connected by extension – How paying connects old regimes and new isolations https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-connected-by-extension-how-paying-connects-old-regimes-and-new-isolations/ https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-connected-by-extension-how-paying-connects-old-regimes-and-new-isolations/#respond Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:00:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34988   The situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-connected-by-extension-how-paying-connects-old-regimes-and-new-isolations/feed/ 0 Distributing Anthropological Films During the Pandemic https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-distributing-anthropological-films-during-the-pandemic/ https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-distributing-anthropological-films-during-the-pandemic/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2020 08:00:55 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34721 During the COVID-19 lockdowns in the spring of 2020, when cinema theatres and university buildings closed, many film festivals decided […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/corona-distributing-anthropological-films-during-the-pandemic/feed/ 1 The Fiscal Life of Pandemics https://allegralaboratory.net/the-fiscal-life-of-pandemics/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-fiscal-life-of-pandemics/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:00:40 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34359   In his summer statement, Rishi Sunak, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that VAT (Value-Added Tax) would be […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-fiscal-life-of-pandemics/feed/ 0 Don’t Come Home this Year https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-come-home-this-year/ https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-come-home-this-year/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:00:15 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34322 ‘Don’t come home this year’ is a short video about Romanian migrants returning home from Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-come-home-this-year/feed/ 0 The Political Lives of Masks: Citizenship, civility and covering up during the COVID-19 pandemic https://allegralaboratory.net/the-political-lives-of-masks-citizenship-civility-and-covering-up-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-political-lives-of-masks-citizenship-civility-and-covering-up-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:31:13 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34160 Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the science of masks has become hotly debated by epidemiologists, public health officials, and the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-political-lives-of-masks-citizenship-civility-and-covering-up-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/feed/ 0 World élite? Latvia, national identity and the pandemic https://allegralaboratory.net/world-elite-latvia-national-identity-and-the-pandemic/ https://allegralaboratory.net/world-elite-latvia-national-identity-and-the-pandemic/#respond Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:00:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34141 An introduction to somewhere less observed Research on Covid-19 is a hot topic worldwide, and, recently, the Latvian goveernment has  […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/world-elite-latvia-national-identity-and-the-pandemic/feed/ 0 The Murkiness of the Peruvian Lockdown https://allegralaboratory.net/the-murkiness-of-peruvian-lockdown/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-murkiness-of-peruvian-lockdown/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:00:37 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34035 Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-murkiness-of-peruvian-lockdown/feed/ 0 Neither Markets Nor Militaries: On the critical importance of restoring the commons https://allegralaboratory.net/neither-markets-nor-militaries-on-the-critical-importance-of-restoring-the-commons/ https://allegralaboratory.net/neither-markets-nor-militaries-on-the-critical-importance-of-restoring-the-commons/#respond Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:00:03 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=33878 In Southern Africa – where South Africa and Botswana account for two of the most economically unequal countries in the […]

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