Top of 2016 – or thereabouts!
Who can believe that it’s almost Spring – where did the time fly?! At Allegra we just realized that we […]
Fighting a wildfire on a gun range, or, the sensuous memories of fieldwork
Introduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who
Slam that ethnography! – Imagine further
After a week of performed ethnographic poetry, Robert Desjarlais and Eileen Moyer wrap things up in their concluding remarks. If
An Anniversary as a Laboratory
This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention
Gentrification, diversification & events – let’s take it SLOW!
Ever so often we find it indispensable to remind ourselves & everyone else that one of Allegra’s guiding mottos is
Top 10 (or thereabout) of 2015
As we embark on yet another Allegra year, let’s take a look back: what were your favorite posts for 2015?
Life After Fieldwork: of leaving the field, entering liminality and relocating the mind
The bulky and weirdly shaped package I hold in my hands weighs nearly 20 pounds. 20 pounds of memories materialize
One-Shots Thematic thread
Contextualizing Exclusion: Lessons from Kambis
In my first blog installment I described one of my bus rides in Tehran in order to show that education,
From the Centre of Europe to the End of the World: Intimate reflections on activism, healing and belonging in the field
I was not feeling any particular excitement or thrilling feverishness. Preparing for the unknown journey into fieldwork in Santiago de Chile
Fieldnote One-Shots
Journeys Within and Between the City – Part Two
In the field, anthropologists are often presented with competing narratives, imaginings juxtaposed with reality, and the collision of facts with