Cultivating Childhood
Samira and Amna visit me in the afternoon after finishing Quran school (madrasa). After they have taken off their buibuis (long black overdress) and…
Read MoreSamira and Amna visit me in the afternoon after finishing Quran school (madrasa). After they have taken off their buibuis (long black overdress) and…
Read MoreUsing participation in a collective online experiment with Twitter as a springboard, I interrogate the tweet as a fieldnote. How do the temporalities of…
Read MoreA re-description of my two-fold engagement as ethnographer-cum-documenter in the activist design collective En torno a la silla. Highlighting the importance of note-taking as…
Read MoreToday’s post was originally published on June 3rd, 2014, as part of last summer’s fieldwork thread. Next week we’re sharing some of the fruits…
Read MoreIn Egypt, children are subject to a conservative and hierarchical public educational system. Underfunding, overcrowded classrooms and precarious infrastructure make the Egyptian school a…
Read MoreWhat is an academic blog? Who form its audience and who are, or should be, its authors? How does blogging resonate with more ‘serious’…
Read MoreThe year 2017 is set to be a year where critical new insights are needed at all fronts. And Allegra Lab needs you! We…
Read MoreWhat is it like to be a ‘good guy with a gun’ – or is that even a contradiction in terms? Today we continue…
Read MoreWho can believe that it’s almost Spring – where did the time fly?! At Allegra we just realized that we never paused to reflect…
Read MoreIntroduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who are currently in prison….
Read MoreAfter a week of performed ethnographic poetry, Robert Desjarlais and Eileen Moyer wrap things up in their concluding remarks. If you haven’t read the…
Read MoreThis Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not entirely coincidental…
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