bureaucracy Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/bureaucracy/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:37:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png bureaucracy Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/bureaucracy/ 32 32 Antihero*ines of ambiguous spaces: accessing asylum procedures in Greece https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroines-of-ambiguous-spaces-accessing-asylum-procedures-in-greece/ https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroines-of-ambiguous-spaces-accessing-asylum-procedures-in-greece/#respond Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46723 This article explores the role of street-level bureaucrats within the migration management system in Greece, examining their discretionary powers and their involvement in either perpetuating or challenging structural ambiguities which prevent access and information.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/antiheroines-of-ambiguous-spaces-accessing-asylum-procedures-in-greece/feed/ 0 Anti-hero*ines of international social, political and legal practice: An Introduction https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-of-international-social-political-and-legal-practice-an-introduction/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-of-international-social-political-and-legal-practice-an-introduction/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46825 This thematic thread considers the figure of the anti-hero/anti-heroine and the lens of anti-heroism, and proposes a heuristic reformulation, the anti-hero*ine, to grasp more acutely the complexities and ambiguities in the interplay of power, agency and morality in relation to contemporary struggles for justice, rights, and social change.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-of-international-social-political-and-legal-practice-an-introduction/feed/ 0 Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire  https://allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship-legacies-of-race-and-emergency-in-the-former-british-empire/ https://allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship-legacies-of-race-and-emergency-in-the-former-british-empire/#respond Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:00:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45609 Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/state-of-address-v-doge/feed/ 0 State of Address https://allegralaboratory.net/state-of-address/ https://allegralaboratory.net/state-of-address/#respond Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:30:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45591 It demands a kind of compliance to a taxonomised structure. For us to follow a set of instructions to turn in the correct documents, forms, proofs and annexures.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/state-of-address/feed/ 0 ANTHROKINO: STATE OF ADDRESS https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-state-of-address/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-state-of-address/#respond Tue, 13 May 2025 09:41:04 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44943 Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch State of Address. The screening will be followed by […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-state-of-address/feed/ 0 A Crisis of Fiduciary Regulation: From ‘Access’ to Foundering Formalisation in South African Property Inheritance https://allegralaboratory.net/a-crisis-of-fiduciary-regulation-from-access-to-foundering-formalisation-in-south-african-property-inheritance/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-crisis-of-fiduciary-regulation-from-access-to-foundering-formalisation-in-south-african-property-inheritance/#respond Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44167 Administration has a difficult history in South Africa: apartheid was centrally an administrative project, through segregation and exclusion. Areas of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-crisis-of-fiduciary-regulation-from-access-to-foundering-formalisation-in-south-african-property-inheritance/feed/ 0 “You have to do your business, right?”: Politics of regulating maternal health markets in Bangladesh https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/ https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43960 Introduction Private health service delivery is becoming increasingly dominant in biomedical landscapes worldwide. In global health circles, private health services […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/feed/ 0 Movement and Meaning for Oil and Gas Data Vendors https://allegralaboratory.net/movement-and-meaning-for-oil-and-gas-data-vendors/ https://allegralaboratory.net/movement-and-meaning-for-oil-and-gas-data-vendors/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44610 In figure 1, the pen in John’s hand points to a column on the computer screen. On the same screen […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/movement-and-meaning-for-oil-and-gas-data-vendors/feed/ 0 Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan https://allegralaboratory.net/mediated-lives-waiting-and-hope-among-iraqi-refugees-in-jordan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mediated-lives-waiting-and-hope-among-iraqi-refugees-in-jordan/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43843 Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and […]

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