body Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/body/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:23:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png body Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/body/ 32 32 The ethnographer’s body is gendered https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46367 Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site of knowledge production and vulnerability.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/feed/ 0 Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field? https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:35 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46361 Emanuelle Roth critically examines how institutional risk frameworks reshape ethnographic practice through her experience of being recalled from doctoral fieldwork in Guinea after disclosing a pregnancy.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/feed/ 0 Orientalized Gender and the Field https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46365 Drawing on her Master’s fieldwork in Leipzig, Salma Moustafa Khalil reflects on how orientalism, gender, and racialised assumptions shape ethnographic encounters when a Middle Eastern woman conducts research in Europe.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/feed/ 1 Access and Agency of Women Ethnographers in Technical Leisure Cultures https://allegralaboratory.net/access-and-agency-of-women-ethnographers-in-technical-leisure-cultures/ https://allegralaboratory.net/access-and-agency-of-women-ethnographers-in-technical-leisure-cultures/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:05:41 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46494 Based on eighteen months of participant observation in US gaming and live-action role-play communities, the piece examines how women ethnographers navigate access, safety, and credibility within male-dominated technical leisure cultures.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/access-and-agency-of-women-ethnographers-in-technical-leisure-cultures/feed/ 0 Feeling climate: poetic resonance and the affectivity of climate change https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/ https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:07:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48574 What does it mean to do research with climate? This essay reflects on the potential of poetic resonance as a method of creative experimentation and (auto)ethnographic practice, attuning the researcher/writer to the sensory experience of body and place.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/feed/ 0 Mother Tales: An (Auto)Ethnographic Exploration of Poetic Resonance, Loss, and Existential Time https://allegralaboratory.net/mother-tales-an-autoethnographic-exploration-of-poetic-resonance-loss-and-existential-time/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mother-tales-an-autoethnographic-exploration-of-poetic-resonance-loss-and-existential-time/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:05:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48246 This essay explores how poetic resonance can deepen ethnographic analysis by attuning to sensorial, embodied, and existential dimensions of experience.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mother-tales-an-autoethnographic-exploration-of-poetic-resonance-loss-and-existential-time/feed/ 0 Movements for Rhythms of Uncertainty https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/ https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:01:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48507 This experimental essay treats uncertainty as bodily and relational and uses rhythm as a way of noticing it. It begins in the writing vibrations of the Poetic Resonance Protocol and carries their structure through the composition of the piece.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/feed/ 0 Fight, Flight, Freeze, Film https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/ https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:39:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48356 This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/feed/ 0 Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47071 Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/feed/ 0 Weight https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/ https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:46:19 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45668 Terri gave me this large stone when we met up in 2022 at the Conference on Iroquois Research (Figure 1).1 That year […]

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