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Virtual Roundtable: Antonio De Lauri’s response

1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? To some extent, the notion of political agency has…

Summer EVENTS list

Hello Allies! Once again, Aude came up with this wonderful list of events for you, to give you a foretaste of the new academic…

Refugees Without Agency

In late May 2016 riot police buses were rolled onto the Greek highways from Athens to the village of Idomeni, where is located the…

Brexit, Europe and Anthropology: time to say something

Introduction (by Sarah Green) Brexit means trouble, that is for certain; what is less certain is what kind of trouble. Some might sympathise with…

On the UK Referendum

For me, the UK referendum story began a year ago with another referendum: that of Greece. Elected in January 2015 on a promise to…

Democracy on speed

The question, when it came, was striking in its simplicity: “should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the…

#EVENTS from misconception to transformation

Let’s conclude this Allegra week with another one of our monthly events’ post! No thematic focus this time but a few opportunities to further…

REDUX: Responsibility and Scholarship in the Current Political Moment – Graduate Conference | 25-26 September 2015

Anthropology today is in a moment of creative rupture, redefinition, and profound possibility. Our collective intellectual energy is directed toward contemporary social and political…

#Review: The Politics of Humanitarianism: Power, Ideology and Aid

Humanitarianism is a chimera, arguably an infection, but certainly an ethos and organising principle of our age that intersects with transformative moral-political modes of…

Turning cool kids into outlaws – Legal fictions and the management of heroin abuse in post-reform China

Cool kids. On a rainy afternoon towards the end of my fieldwork in Qilin, southwest China, I sat with one of my informants, Jiao…

Fictional #Fictions between China and Arstotzka

One interesting way to (momentarily) close this thematic week about living fictions (one that could also speak to many other thematic weeks here on…

Migrant Deaths: Data, Trends and Possible Causes

In a recent article published at Allegra, Ferruccio Pastore addresses some of the problems related to counting migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. Furthermore, while…