Today's Totalitarianism Archives - Allegra Lab Anthropology for Radical Optimism Sun, 18 Sep 2022 19:34:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Today's Totalitarianism Archives - Allegra Lab 32 32 War between good citizens and bad citizens: tools for today’s totalitarianism in Brazil and the Philippines https://allegralaboratory.net/war-between-good-citizens-and-bad-citizens-tools-for-todays-totalitarianism-in-brazil-and-the-philippines/ https://allegralaboratory.net/war-between-good-citizens-and-bad-citizens-tools-for-todays-totalitarianism-in-brazil-and-the-philippines/#respond Fri, 30 Jul 2021 18:00:27 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36562 On May 6, 2021, on the heels of Brazil’s deadliest month since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, special police […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/war-between-good-citizens-and-bad-citizens-tools-for-todays-totalitarianism-in-brazil-and-the-philippines/feed/ 0 This safety asphyxiates us: The banal border in Barcelona https://allegralaboratory.net/this-safety-asphyxiates-us-the-banal-border-in-barcelona/ https://allegralaboratory.net/this-safety-asphyxiates-us-the-banal-border-in-barcelona/#respond Thu, 20 May 2021 09:00:18 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36224 Last month, while in Spain, we woke up to the news that local residents in the Canary Islands were planning […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/this-safety-asphyxiates-us-the-banal-border-in-barcelona/feed/ 0 How does/did Modi do it? The significance of ‘decisionism’ https://allegralaboratory.net/how-does-did-modi-do-it-the-significance-of-decisionism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/how-does-did-modi-do-it-the-significance-of-decisionism/#respond Wed, 12 May 2021 09:00:40 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36191 An introductory note: In the short space of time that has elapsed since I first drafted this essay – in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/how-does-did-modi-do-it-the-significance-of-decisionism/feed/ 0 Totalizing Infrastructures: Statecraft in the Uyghur Penal Colony https://allegralaboratory.net/totalizing-infrastructures-statecraft-in-the-uyghur-penal-colony/ https://allegralaboratory.net/totalizing-infrastructures-statecraft-in-the-uyghur-penal-colony/#respond Tue, 04 May 2021 09:00:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36149 There were three lanes at the checkpoint in Turpan—an old Uyghur-majority oasis city on the northern reaches of the Taklamakan […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/totalizing-infrastructures-statecraft-in-the-uyghur-penal-colony/feed/ 0 Sinicizing Islam in Contemporary China https://allegralaboratory.net/sinicizing-islam-in-contemporary-china/ https://allegralaboratory.net/sinicizing-islam-in-contemporary-china/#respond Fri, 30 Apr 2021 09:00:04 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36135 Modern states, both liberal and non-liberal, tend to deploy totalitarian-style strategies which force an “internal other” to assimilate into the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/sinicizing-islam-in-contemporary-china/feed/ 0 Today’s Totalitarianism – Call for Submissions https://allegralaboratory.net/todays-totalitarianism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/todays-totalitarianism/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:17:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34896 Today’s Totalitarianism welcomes written opinion pieces that increase our awareness of the dangers we confront at this historical juncture anywhere […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/todays-totalitarianism/feed/ 1 Casting Out the Disabled and Ill Immigrant: The Legacies of Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 https://allegralaboratory.net/casting-out-the-disabled-and-ill-immigrant-the-legacies-of-australias-immigration-restriction-act-of-1901/ https://allegralaboratory.net/casting-out-the-disabled-and-ill-immigrant-the-legacies-of-australias-immigration-restriction-act-of-1901/#respond Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:00:15 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35178 Collectively, immigration policies function to perform national sovereignty by reinforcing the division between citizen and migrant, usually conflated with ‘native’ […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/casting-out-the-disabled-and-ill-immigrant-the-legacies-of-australias-immigration-restriction-act-of-1901/feed/ 0 Today’s Totalitarian Menace https://allegralaboratory.net/todays-totalitarian-menace/ https://allegralaboratory.net/todays-totalitarian-menace/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:00:08 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35052 Wherever one looks across the globe today democracy is in decline and trends towards what was once called “totalitarianism” are […]

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