Brave New Normal World
When politicians begin to speak of a post-corona “new normality”, what does that imply? And why should we be concerned? The spread of the…
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Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds
In the classic origin tale of “The Box” and its seductions, Pandora is driven by curiosity—a distinctly feminized will to knowledge—to unleash chaos on…
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Eerie desires for the authoritarian state. Covid-19 updates from Italy.
I have been – like anyone else in Italy – in quarantine for the past three weeks. Optimistically, Italy will be on lockdown for…
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The return of the plague-spreader
Written in lockdown amid the pandemic, this post speculates about the political and epistemological implications of ‘middle-class’ reactions to the present crisis. It is…
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Call for reviews: Law, technology, Bureaucracy
Our new Book Review Team has expanded with the arrival of Emilie Thévenoz (Thank you Emilie for joining us!), which means we are now…
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‘The Lines of Destiny’: Leticia Barreto and the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction I met the artist Leticia Barreto in Lisbon, Portugal, during a visit to one of her collective exhibitions. In her contribution to “Fluid…
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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…
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Anthropology at, and of, the Limit
Where do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini,…
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No Go World: The Map of Danger, Reconnections and ‘Crimes of Solidarity’
Andersson’s new opus is a haunting and insightful examination of those remote zones of danger and insecurity that are distant yet at the centre…
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#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…
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Introduction: Muslim Humanitarianism
Muslims around the world partake in comparable practices of aid, welfare and care that have received a wide range of different labels depending on…
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Theorizing Humanitarianism for an Islamic Counterpublic #MUHUM
Closely attending to Muslim theorizations provides an opportunity for social scientists to stop asking such questions as ‘what is so Islamic about Islamic humanitarianism?’…
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