Being an intern at Allegra Lab: An epilogue
Before my internship at Allegra Lab, I was unaware of most of the online platforms for anthropology. I had heard of sites such as…
Read MoreBefore my internship at Allegra Lab, I was unaware of most of the online platforms for anthropology. I had heard of sites such as…
Read MorePlaying a bit part in organising a workshop on academic publishing for PhD students at the next annual conference of the British Association for…
Read MoreToday we will reflect on what it means to ‘encounter, dwell in, read, critique and make use of theory’. The idea of an ‘encounter’…
Read MoreCan one be an academic and a mother? Of course. Of course you can, and yet, this question is a common one. It is…
Read MoreThis Allegra week we remain in retreat spirits, and will consequently revisit some more ‘Jewel’s of Allie’s Archive’. And what more appropriate theme for doing so…
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 MoreToday we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it was first published in…
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 MoreI was excited to dig into the book by the sociologist Kenneth A. Kolb. Why? I was keen to read something analytically powerful, critical…
Read MoreFashion is deeply expressive of social and individual identities, and thus, changes in fashion trends reveal much about changes in culture. This contention is…
Read MoreMasculinities Under Neoliberalism (2016), edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne is the successor of the groundbreaking work ‘Dislocating Masculinity’ (1994)….
Read MoreWithin the past several years, prenatal testing has significantly advanced, developing numerous methods of non-invasive prenatal testing such as examining fetal cell-free DNA in…
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