ICPA 2016: 18th (FAKE!) International Conference on Political Anthropology
My heart skips a beat, more than once. Finally, a conference in the one place I wanted to return to […]
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Rethinking political agency in the Middle East #project
This week Allegra focuses on an exciting new feature incorporated into our beloved website a while back: namely Projects! What this
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
‘The soul of the community’: corporate legal personhood in an indigenous settlement fictions
In Argentina, indigenous people have been historically marginalised and rendered invisible (Gordillo & Hirsch 2003). However, over the last couple
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
‘Every Day is a Copy-And-Paste’: Waithood Among Tunisian Men
This morning I felt that I couldn’t bear this passivity any longer. I was sinking in my red plastic chair
Celebrating Allies – part 3: Are you looking for a ghostwriter?
Today we continue our celebration of the Allies who handle much of the behind-the-scenes work that is needed to keep fan-bu-tastic
Human Smugglers | Workshop Abstracts – Part 2
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre,
Human Rights: Activism, Concepts, Books & something Rusty
After a week long extravaganza of performance and politics around music and dance, it is time for performance & politics
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