Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 12 May 2026 15:43:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ 32 32 Health justice two ways: examples from the field https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 15:43:41 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47856 Authors: Lisa J Hardy & Nox Chetcuti In a room at a juvenile detention center an Auricular Acupuncture Technician (AAT) […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/feed/ 0 What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/#respond Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47779 Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/feed/ 0 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 Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues […]

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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 (Neo)colonialism https://allegralaboratory.net/neocolonialism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/neocolonialism/#respond Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:23:27 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47600 In this episode, the conversation turns to the structural conditions that make the backway feel like the only viable option […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/neocolonialism/feed/ 0 Ethnography Beyond Earth: Coloniality, Outer Space, and Anthropological Imagination https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/#respond Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47540 What is at stake in engaging outer space ethnographically when colonial histories and power structures continue to shape its exploration and imagination?

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/feed/ 0 Access2University and Education Pathways at UCLouvain with Elisabeth BOSTON https://allegralaboratory.net/access2university-and-education-pathways-at-uclouvain-with-elisabeth-boston/ https://allegralaboratory.net/access2university-and-education-pathways-at-uclouvain-with-elisabeth-boston/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:42:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47629 In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Elisabeth Boston. Elisabeth is the Refugee policy officer at UCLouvain in Belgium. They speak about Access2University (A2U), a programme that aims to prepare refugees (applicants) with little or no knowledge of French to resume university studies, and Education Pathways, which is an initiative to bring displaced people to Belgium to study.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/access2university-and-education-pathways-at-uclouvain-with-elisabeth-boston/feed/ 0 Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere a Wall https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/ https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:59:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47485 On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/feed/ 0 Return https://allegralaboratory.net/return/ https://allegralaboratory.net/return/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:56:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47476 In this episode, YAIM members describe how they kept their sanity inside Tariq al Sikka through music, shared prayers, and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/return/feed/ 0 Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/ https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:35:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47415 Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.

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