Studying violence anthropologically
This week, Allegra investigates a difficult subject: violence and suffering as these are experienced on the margins and peripheries of the late modern world….
Read MoreThis week, Allegra investigates a difficult subject: violence and suffering as these are experienced on the margins and peripheries of the late modern world….
Read MoreIt has been a stimulating week at Allegra, with many fabulous posts by anthropologists working on ‘violence’. If you missed it, do not panic:…
Read MoreGilgit Town, the administrative capital of the impoverished, neglected and semi-autonomous Gilgit-Baltistan region in northern Pakistan, has been at the heart of nearly 30…
Read MoreThe African continent has been at the forefront of experiments with transitional justice. There have been amnesties, truth commissions, criminal trials and supposedly localized…
Read MoreI first visited Lyari in August 2012 when I joined Laurent Gayer in conducting a focus group discussion with members of a community-based organization,…
Read MoreBrief extract from a forthcoming publication Over the past decades, the rapid rise of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in India has placed women…
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