Studying violence anthropologically
This week, Allegra investigates a difficult subject: violence and suffering as these are experienced on the margins and peripheries of […]
This week, Allegra investigates a difficult subject: violence and suffering as these are experienced on the margins and peripheries of […]
The African continent has been at the forefront of experiments with transitional justice. There have been amnesties, truth commissions, criminal
Brief extract from a forthcoming publication Over the past decades, the rapid rise of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in
Toronto, summer 2012, three of us having lunch at an Indian restaurant downtown—me and two young Tibetan friends. We were
Today we are happy to share with you an interview with Latif Tas who is a socio-legal researcher currently based
The lack of a sovereign entity undoubtedly distinguishes the Kurdish diaspora from other state-bound diasporas, and Kurds are certainly to
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674599222. 304 pages. A review
Of Allegra’s excellent list of recent publications pertaining to Islam, The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam is perhaps the
After the success of her article published in American Anthropologist in 2002 under the same title, Lila Abu-Lughod released her
We promised we would do it, and now it is done ! Here are the first glimpses into some of the