On Harm and History
I want to begin with Julia´s history, an indigenous woman from the South of Colombia who currently lives in one of Bogotá’s massive shantytowns….
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My name is not ‘NN’: Field-Notes from An Exhumation Site in Guatemala City
I arrived to La Ciudad Cemetery by the end of February 2014 as part of an introductory training on Forensic Anthropology. In the picture…
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In the name of ‘rule of law’…
After South Sudan declared its independence from the Republic of the Sudan in 2011, one could read in the international media scene: “South Sudan…
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Rescuing (cosmopolitan) locals at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
On the 31st December 2014, after twenty years of existence, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) finally ceased operations. Established in November 1994…
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Labors of Memory and the Post-Conflict Economy
During my research on Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 2003, a group of men in Lunsar invited me to a palm wine…
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Books on “Violence” looking for reviewers #AnthroViolence
It has been a stimulating week at Allegra, with many fabulous posts by anthropologists working on ‘violence’. If you missed it, do not panic:…
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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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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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AAA 2013: The Final Countdown!
Only 14 days left before the AAA meeting in Chicago! As the largest conference within our discipline, the AAA triggers both enthusiasm at the…
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BIBLIOGRAPHY on Human Rights (Law) etc
We feel that it has by now become evident what we hope to do with Allegra: to both highlight ongoing debates and create new…
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Emerging South Sudan – Negotiating Statehood
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) / Germany September 23rd – 24th 2013, Organisers: Katrin Seidel, Timm Sureau
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Rethinking political agency in the Middle East #project
This week Allegra focuses on an exciting new feature incorporated into our beloved website a while back: namely Projects! What this feature entails are collaborations…
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