Sustainability in the Age of Austerity
Recently, a series of heated debates around the use and abuse of the buzzword ‘anthropocene’ to qualify our current human epoch have taken place…
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From Maya enthusiast to Occupy activist: Allegra meets David Graeber REDUX
David Graeber (1961) is the author of several books on theories of value, social thory and anarchism, including the award-winning Debt: The First 5000…
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Tobacco Capitalism
Introduction by Allegra’s Reviews Editor, Judith Beyer. Two weeks ago, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled Tobacco’s Hidden Children, in which it…
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Resistance, Rhetoric, and the Public Sphere – #HAPPY
ALLEGRA: Today the global #HAPPY phenomenon was again in the news as makers of a video shoot in Teheran were allegedly arrested, only to…
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Researching Modern Imagination through the Lenses of Islam
Dead serious or pink and fluffy; the ultimate oppressed ‘Other’ or wordly modern citizen and consumer? Talk and visions of Islam and Muslims remain…
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New publications #PublicationJihad
This week, our #PublicationJihad continues with Allegra’s own currated list of books covering a large spectrum of themes: from the history of international law,…
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‘In the air’ – Discussion with Eeva Berglund, EASA Book Series
Since 1992, the EASA has published its own collection, initially with Routledge and now with BerghahnBooks. Among its most popular titles are ‘Audit Cultures’…
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POLAR, Part 2 – #PublicationJihad!
Today Allegra’s #PublicationJihad continues our collaboration with POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropological Review with Part 2 of their list of publications to be reviewed (Part 1…
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#PublicationJihad!
This week will be Allegra’s first ever #PublicationJihad! What this means is a full week of Spectacular Blogging Activity devoted to one single cause alone:…
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The Laboratory as a Space of Intellectual Freedom
Some of our devoted readers may have wondered why we chose to call Allegra a virtual LABORATORY. That (one of) our primary aim(s) is…
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LONDON CALLING
There is so much going on in the global megalopolis that it is difficult to get one’s head around the constant buzz of events…
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Money Machine
If, like us, you find yourself lost in translation each time you are confronted with the world of finance, why not start educating yourself…
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