Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:37:05 +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 Poetic Resonance: Dwelling in the Affective Ripples of Ethnography https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/ https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:08:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48427 This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/feed/ 0 Feeling climate: poetic resonance and the affectivity of climate change https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/ https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:07:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48574 What does it mean to do research with climate? This essay reflects on the potential of poetic resonance as a method of creative experimentation and (auto)ethnographic practice, attuning the researcher/writer to the sensory experience of body and place.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/feed/ 0 “Mish Hwn W Mish Hunaak”: Tracing Affective Landscapes of Exile With Poetic Resonance https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:07:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48443 When I am in spaces where poetry is performed, there are invisible yet palpable forces which raise my heartbeat, make my tears well up, and give me goosebumps.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/feed/ 0 Mother Tales: An (Auto)Ethnographic Exploration of Poetic Resonance, Loss, and Existential Time https://allegralaboratory.net/mother-tales-an-autoethnographic-exploration-of-poetic-resonance-loss-and-existential-time/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mother-tales-an-autoethnographic-exploration-of-poetic-resonance-loss-and-existential-time/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:05:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48246 This essay explores how poetic resonance can deepen ethnographic analysis by attuning to sensorial, embodied, and existential dimensions of experience.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mother-tales-an-autoethnographic-exploration-of-poetic-resonance-loss-and-existential-time/feed/ 0 In the Face of Fury: Holding Disruptive and Connective Intensities through Poetic Resonance https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/ https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48489 In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/feed/ 0 Pyropoetic Resonances: Humility, Affect, and Being in the Field (on Fire) https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:03:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48533 This essay explores how the poetic resonance protocol enabled a deeper, embodied engagement with my ethnographic object: a poetry workshop conducted with wildfire-affected residents in northern Germany.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/feed/ 0 Resonating with a Gourd https://allegralaboratory.net/resonating-with-a-gourd/ https://allegralaboratory.net/resonating-with-a-gourd/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:02:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48285 During a multispecies ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish private garden, I encountered a weird-looking gourd (Calabash) that was turned into a birdhouse.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/resonating-with-a-gourd/feed/ 0 Movements for Rhythms of Uncertainty https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/ https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:01:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48507 This experimental essay treats uncertainty as bodily and relational and uses rhythm as a way of noticing it. It begins in the writing vibrations of the Poetic Resonance Protocol and carries their structure through the composition of the piece.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/feed/ 0 The Anthropologist as Tuning Fork https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48270 This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of lived experience whilst working through ethnographic materials.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/feed/ 0 Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48547 During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […]

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