This week begins a new thematic thread conceived around the topic, “The State and International Relations, Ethnographically: Sites, Objects, Lives.” Consistent with the overall…
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To close our thematic week on the anthropology of the state, we re-publish (with the permission of the author) this excerpt from Yael Navaro-Yashin’s…
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Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs since the Apartheid era….
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As we start into 2018, we seize the opportunity of this post by Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan on their influential edited volume…
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The last two weeks here at Allegra have been dedicated to all things #Anthrostate. To continue the theme, we have handpicked some of our favourite…
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Since 2007, the Palestinian government in the West Bank has been working to build a state while under occupation. Already almost entirely dependent on…
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Today we are very pleased to continue our #AnthroState debate via this collaboration with the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). We are very…
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On April 2nd 2015, the bloody attack on Garissa University College captured and dominated news headlines worldwide. The attack was claimed by Al-Shabaab, a…
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Gina lay on a mattress in her room, the drip stuck in her hand, feeling “very feeble”. The sister of one of my key…
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“We will continuously say how rooted we are in this county like a plane tree embracing the soil with its roots. They might prune…
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This thematic week is the continuation of a discussion on the state we, at Allegra, started in november last year. This previous thread explored…
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We recently featured a review on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ with Madeleine Reeves’s new publication on Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State…
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