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The Making of an African Working Class

An ethnography of class identity and consciousness, its origins and its component dynamics, is a tall order. After all, it is not a straightforward…

Blogs & Science – and more: NEW Allegra week!

AAH, it’s a new week filled once again with tons of ‘Allegra Fun’! This week we set things off by continuing our discussion on…

‘The Good Life’ by Edward Fischer, Part 2/2

This is the second part in our Special Review section of Edward Fischer‘s book The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing….

Stitched Up, part 2/2!

This is the second part in our Special Review section of Tansy E. Hoskins´ book Stitched Up – The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion….

Anthropology between Book and Blog

Anthropology between Book and Blog – Evaluation Criteria and Communication in Academia. Talk on the Occasion of Allegra Lab’s Website Relaunch in Berlin at…

Living Displacement – thematic week on refugees!

Edward Said once wrote: ‘Our age, with its modern warfare, imperialism and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers – is indeed the age of…

Palestinian refugees and the current Syrian conflict: from settled refugees to stateless asylum seekers?

The Syrian conflict has caused the forced displacement of many refugees. In November 2014, UNRWA[1] estimated the total number of Palestinian refugees displaced inside…

When Camps Become Home: Legal implications of the long-term encampment in Zaatari

Over the past five years, Syria is going through an unprecedented internal crisis and a civil war generating extreme violence and insecurity. Since the…

Stitched Up, part 1/2!

Tansy E. Hoskins. 2014. Stitched Up. The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion. Pluto Press. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780745334561. Tansy E. Hoskins’ Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist…

ACADEMIC BLOGGING – WHO / WHAT IS IT FOR?! #RELAUNCH

By now many of our devoted Allies may have gathered that ‘something’s up!’ The changing Facebook profile, hints of ‘something to come’… Combined it…

‘Exception’, solidarity, and conferral politics: crossroads of the ‘Greek’ crisis

This short piece aims to touch on how our overview of the ‘Greek’ crisis can benefit from anthropological approaches, especially as the expected radical…

Rachel Black – Porta Palazzo #2!

Rachel E. Black 2012. Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4406-9 This is…