Piketty #2!
This post represents the second installment of our special review section on Capital in the Twenty-First Century. First and third installments available here and…
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PIKETTY #1!
This post represents the first installment of our special review section on Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Second and third installments available here and…
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“You don’t know me”: Disorientation, Reorientation, and Not Knowing in the Ethnography of Asylum and Refugees
During a long drive in the snow to meet my family for the dubiously-founded yet nonetheless celebratory U.S.-American Thanksgiving, my husband Salvatore and I…
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Recent Publications on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ #AnthroState
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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This week at Allegra: Kurdistan & The Kurdish Diaspora!
This week Allegra will focus on Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. We will start with a conversation with Latif Tas who has recently published…
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Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674599222. 304 pages. A review by D.T. Cochrane …
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Universities in a State of Exception
Today we continue our thread ‘Allie’s Jewels on University Crises’ by a post by Dimitris Dalakoglou, originally published in October 2013. Written as a…
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Introduction – Thread on SUSTAINABILITY
Even though the green shoots of economic recovery have started to sprout across the globe, the impact of austerity, long standing wars and conflicts,…
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Fall CALLING!
Over the past year one of Allegra’s recurring features has become its Events posts – designed to give you glimpses into the most exciting…
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A conversation with Gerhard Anders
Gerhard Anders is a lecturer in African Studies and International Development in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh….
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END Culture of Silence! Motion at #EASA2014
In our last post discussing the ongoing Gaza massacres we insinuated that this issue was something existing outside the ivory tower of the academia,…
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Boredom, Creativity, Crises, Normalcy…
By MHT & JB “I am to write about boredom – but I’ve got nothing. I have no inspiration in me, no fancy words…
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