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Call for Reviews: Anthropology of Climate Change and the Environment

As 2020 started with the apocalyptic images of the Australian bush-fires, we at Allegra, felt there was an emergency to feature the work of…

#Review: Punk and Revolution

In Punk and revolution: Seven more interpretations of Peruvian reality, Shane Greene locates the distinctive elements of Peruvian punk in the context of the…

#Review: Shooting a Revolution

Shooting a Revolution is a smart polyseme that Donatella Della Ratta uses to describe the grim reality of Syria: one shoots to kill and…

#Review: After Ethnos

After Ethnos is a philosophically sophisticated provocation and inspiration towards a new mode of anthropological analysis that breaks free from the classic conflation of…

#Review: Queer Festivals

Konstantinos Eleftheriadis’s Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe is a much needed and welcome addition to a small but growing body…

#Review: Rules, Paper and Status

The arrival of a ‘refugee,’ ‘migrant,’ ‘asylym seeker,’ or the European ‘Other,’ is too familiar to us from political debates. The stage for this…

#Review: Out of “love” and “solidarity”

Out of “love” and “solidarity”, an ethnography written in Greek, is Katerina Rozakou’s insightful study of two volunteer organizations that helped refugees in Athens…

Call for Reviews: Gender & Sexuality – Contesting White Heteronormativity

Political developments in many parts of the world today call us to challenge the forces that thrive on fascism, racism, anti-genderism, and the collapse…

Call for Reviews: Ethnographies of the United States

While our newsfeed is filled with content related to the mid-term elections in the United States, President Trump’s xenophobic and racist discourse, and his…

CALL FOR REVIEWS: NEW BOOKS ON THE EUROPEAN MIGRATION REGIME

Three years after Europe declared a ‘crisis’ of migration control, its border and migration regimes have become increasingly repressive. A growing body of critical…

#Review: Working the System

Working the System is a great book. It holds the promise of its subtitle and offers a deep ‘political ethnography of the new Angola’….

#Review: Moving by the Spirit

In Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt, Naomi Haynes provides a compelling ethnographic study of the centrality of Pentecostal…