Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia
In the wake of calls for responsibility and for ‘Raising our voice’ (AAA 2020), early-career researchers’ in anthropology risk to […]
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A Claxonomy of Mexico City’s Traffic
Anyone who spends time in Mexico City will spend much of it in traffic. One of the most clogged cities
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 2
Falkof, Nicky (2022): Worrier State. Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press. South Africa 2022
An anthropological chronicle from EASA 2022
I invite you to share in a partial and subjective review of the exhausting academic marathon that was the 17th
“ARE YOU HEADING TO THE FUN ZONE?”: NOTES FROM THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER
Research takes you to unexpected places. After finishing my PhD, I got a postdoc position at the ERC-funded project WARFUN
Technologies of Trust: Introduction
This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Trust, truth, and the blockchain
“Less Trust, More Truth” said the black nylon drawstring bag in the cardboard box. I had to have one. No
Trust: A Pragmatics of Social Life?
Trust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness
When Nothing Fits
Disclaimer: All people mentioned were able to choose how they want to appear in this text. They chose to appear
A (Personal) Tale of Two Socialisms
Note from Allegra editors: We publish this video and transcript of EASA President Mariya Ivancheva’s talk from the annual conference