Call for Reviewers: Solidarities, Hope and Care
In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen
Ethnography Beyond Earth: Coloniality, Outer Space, and Anthropological Imagination
What is at stake in engaging outer space ethnographically when colonial histories and power structures continue to shape its exploration and imagination?
Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art of Living Together: Timor-Leste’s Aspirational School Curriculum
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum.
Go to Palestine—And Go with All Your Heart
Settler colonial terror in a question Amidst arranging a backpack with her family during a short trip away, an inquisitive
Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice: An Exploration Through Seva
In the context of the world we live in, one that is experiencing global apartheid and is permissive of abandonment through colonial erasure, the question I ask in this piece is, What can we expect from the law in world-making?
Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories
Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir. 2024. Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories. Berlin: De Gruyter
Enactment of Hope in Sit-in Protest in Henoko, Okinawa
“We are the only people in the world who feel very happy when a typhoon comes. Do you know why?
British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945
Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker, eds. 2024. British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945.
Colonizing Kashmir:Â State-building under Indian Occupation
Hafsa Kanjwal. 2023. Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Decolonization across the so-called Global South led