development Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/development/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:06:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png development Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/development/ 32 32 Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture https://allegralaboratory.net/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-in-israeli-agriculture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-in-israeli-agriculture/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:27:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45660 Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-in-israeli-agriculture/feed/ 0 Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires https://allegralaboratory.net/collaborative-settler-colonialism-japanese-migration-to-brazil-in-the-age-of-empires/ https://allegralaboratory.net/collaborative-settler-colonialism-japanese-migration-to-brazil-in-the-age-of-empires/#respond Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44840 Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/collaborative-settler-colonialism-japanese-migration-to-brazil-in-the-age-of-empires/feed/ 0 Foreign Investment for Domestic Development https://allegralaboratory.net/foreign-investment-for-domestic-development/ https://allegralaboratory.net/foreign-investment-for-domestic-development/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44115 Foreign Capital to Boost the Development of Africa “How to earn money and contribute to the development of Africa?” This […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/foreign-investment-for-domestic-development/feed/ 0 The coopting of ‘participation’ in development discourse: observations from the ground https://allegralaboratory.net/haile-the-coopting-of-participation/ https://allegralaboratory.net/haile-the-coopting-of-participation/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:43:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41408 When concepts such as ‘participation’ that emanated from radical movements with the objective of transforming social relations and power structures […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/haile-the-coopting-of-participation/feed/ 0 Two sides of the same Euro: A field note on recent farmer protests from southern Italy https://allegralaboratory.net/two-sides-of-the-same-euro-a-field-note-on-recent-farmer-protests-from-southern-italy/ https://allegralaboratory.net/two-sides-of-the-same-euro-a-field-note-on-recent-farmer-protests-from-southern-italy/#respond Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:00:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41349 Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/two-sides-of-the-same-euro-a-field-note-on-recent-farmer-protests-from-southern-italy/feed/ 0 Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism https://allegralaboratory.net/let-there-be-light-frontiers-of-techno-solar-capitalism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/let-there-be-light-frontiers-of-techno-solar-capitalism/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:05:10 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40621 I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/let-there-be-light-frontiers-of-techno-solar-capitalism/feed/ 0 Living Water, living with lively waters (part 2) https://allegralaboratory.net/living-water-living-with-lively-waters-part-2/ https://allegralaboratory.net/living-water-living-with-lively-waters-part-2/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:41:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36878 In What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, geographer Jamie Linton (2010: 14) describes “modern water” as the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/living-water-living-with-lively-waters-part-2/feed/ 0 Living Water and the politics and anti-politics of water in Jordan (Part 1) https://allegralaboratory.net/living-water-and-the-politics-and-anti-politics-of-water-in-jordan-part-1/ https://allegralaboratory.net/living-water-and-the-politics-and-anti-politics-of-water-in-jordan-part-1/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:38:47 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36850   We are often told that Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries on the planet and it is […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/living-water-and-the-politics-and-anti-politics-of-water-in-jordan-part-1/feed/ 0 Lettre à France https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-fictions-lettre-a-france/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-fictions-lettre-a-france/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:00:48 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35498 English Version Paris, le 22 Décembre 2020 Chère France, Comme tu[i] le sais, j’ai assisté, sur tes recommandations, au Congrès […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-fictions-lettre-a-france/feed/ 2 Cape Town through Time and Space: An Experimental Poem https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-fictions-cape-town-through-time-and-space-an-experimental-poem/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-fictions-cape-town-through-time-and-space-an-experimental-poem/#respond Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:23:31 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35754 Part 1: 1921 “Poison Tea, Colonial Imports”, by an Observer    “Them nasty Malays can make it work  months after […]

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