You searched for borders - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:04:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png You searched for borders - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ 32 32 Academic Un/freedom under Capitalist Capture https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-un-freedom-under-capitalist-capture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-un-freedom-under-capitalist-capture/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:25:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=49010 We are living through an increasingly terrifying global emergency. For many of our research participants, and for some of our […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-un-freedom-under-capitalist-capture/feed/ 0 Academics as a Threat in Milei’s Argentina: A “Libertarian” Government Opposed to Academic Freedom https://allegralaboratory.net/academics-as-a-threat-in-mileis-argentina-a-libertarian-government-opposed-to-academic-freedom/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academics-as-a-threat-in-mileis-argentina-a-libertarian-government-opposed-to-academic-freedom/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:46 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48988 During an interview broadcast in early August 2026, Argentine President Javier Milei again explicitly attacked the university and scientific community, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/academics-as-a-threat-in-mileis-argentina-a-libertarian-government-opposed-to-academic-freedom/feed/ 0 Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives https://allegralaboratory.net/food-culture-and-society-in-india-social-political-economic-and-cultural-perspectives/ https://allegralaboratory.net/food-culture-and-society-in-india-social-political-economic-and-cultural-perspectives/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48910 Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli. 2026. Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives. London: […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/food-culture-and-society-in-india-social-political-economic-and-cultural-perspectives/feed/ 0 Of backways and legitimate concerns https://allegralaboratory.net/of-backways-and-legitimate-concerns/ https://allegralaboratory.net/of-backways-and-legitimate-concerns/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:24:13 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48908 Review of Backway to Europe: Talking Borders and Migration with Gambians on the Move (Series 1)

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/of-backways-and-legitimate-concerns/feed/ 0 The New Ethnographer https://allegralaboratory.net/the-new-ethnographer/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:10:48 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?page_id=46697 Launched in April 2018, The New Ethnographer is an inclusive online project dedicated to making fieldwork safer, healthier and more […]

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]]> Competitive Hardship: ethnographic guilt and early-career pressure to conduct ‘authentic’ fieldwork https://allegralaboratory.net/competitive-hardship-ethnographic-guilt-and-early-career-pressure-to-conduct-authentic-fieldwork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/competitive-hardship-ethnographic-guilt-and-early-career-pressure-to-conduct-authentic-fieldwork/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:05:51 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46372 Jennifer Cearns examines the persistent influence of the "Malinowskian" model of fieldwork on early-career anthropologists, arguing that traditional expectations of isolation and immersion create unnecessary guilt and anxiety in contemporary settings.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/competitive-hardship-ethnographic-guilt-and-early-career-pressure-to-conduct-authentic-fieldwork/feed/ 0 “Mish Hwn W Mish Hunaak”: Tracing Affective Landscapes of Exile With Poetic Resonance https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:07:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48443 When I am in spaces where poetry is performed, there are invisible yet palpable forces which raise my heartbeat, make my tears well up, and give me goosebumps.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mish-hwn-w-mish-hunaak-tracing-affective-landscapes-of-exile-with-poetic-resonance/feed/ 0 Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48547 During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/feed/ 0 Invisible Flight: Privileged Mobility and the Hidden Geography of Displacement https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:15:05 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48109 This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration regimes.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/feed/ 0 What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/#respond Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47779 Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.

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