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]]> Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South https://allegralaboratory.net/introduction-conducting-ethnographic-fieldwork-in-the-global-south/ https://allegralaboratory.net/introduction-conducting-ethnographic-fieldwork-in-the-global-south/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43343 Conducting field research in the Global South comes with its own challenges in various stages: pre-field, during fieldwork, and post-fieldwork. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/from-despair-to-where-anthropology-critique-political-practice-and-the-case-for-radical-optimism/feed/ 0 SECTION TWO: DESTABILISING CONCEPTS https://allegralaboratory.net/section-two-destabilising-concepts/ https://allegralaboratory.net/section-two-destabilising-concepts/#respond Mon, 26 Jun 2023 07:50:13 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40380 Introduction: Destabilising Concepts Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård Moving from the first section of the thread where hundreds performed as […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/happy-birthday-to-us-stuff-we-want-to-do/feed/ 0 “We don’t have to whisper”: Fieldnotes from Odesa https://allegralaboratory.net/we-dont-have-to-whisper-fieldnotes-from-odesa/ https://allegralaboratory.net/we-dont-have-to-whisper-fieldnotes-from-odesa/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:00:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=38193 I met Engineer Yakiv[1] on board a merchant ship I had joined just south of Sri Lanka in early 2013. […]

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