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Human Smugglers | Workshop Abstracts – Part 2

The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop aims to…

Human Rights: Activism, Concepts, Books & something Rusty

After a week long extravaganza of performance and politics around music and dance, it is time for performance & politics of an entirely different…

An Anniversary as a Laboratory

This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not entirely coincidental…

‘From Tweet to Blog to Article’ – New Publishing Trends REDUX!

We had been seeing much excitement in the social media around the post authored by Jessie Daniels titled ‘From Tweet to Blog Post to…

Boilerplate Clauses as Pragmatic Knowledge Practices

Prompted by the invitation to participate in this thematic week on #pragmatisms for Allegra, I would like to share some reflections from my ethnographic…

Dreaming of the Inevitable – A Lecture by Samuli Schielke

Today we are pleased to share this talk by our ‘Allie’ Samuli Schielke. The talk is titled ‘Dreaming of the Inevitable: How Money, Morals and Destiny Come…

Up the Anthropologist – Anthropology Day, Jukebox, Migration & Breakfast

Hello everyone – it’s yet another glorious Allegra week! Fine, admittedly the weather in some parts of the world (aka where this post is…

Tim Ingold on the Future of Academic Publishing

Tell me in what journal you publish and I will tell you who you are! As social and human scientists we are caught in…

The Neoliberal Race to the Bottom Affects Us All!*

Over the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories and reflecting on the…

Luanda Taxi – a fieldwork playlist

Conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a hectic, chaotic, and sprawling multimillion metropolis like Luanda presents logistical and epistemological challenges. If one is not focusing on…

Wrapped in the Flag of Israel

How can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of her experience as a…