emotions Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/emotions/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:12:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png emotions Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/emotions/ 32 32 Poetic Resonance: Dwelling in the Affective Ripples of Ethnography https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/ https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:08:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48427 This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/feed/ 0 In the Face of Fury: Holding Disruptive and Connective Intensities through Poetic Resonance https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/ https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48489 In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/feed/ 0 Pyropoetic Resonances: Humility, Affect, and Being in the Field (on Fire) https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:03:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48533 This essay explores how the poetic resonance protocol enabled a deeper, embodied engagement with my ethnographic object: a poetry workshop conducted with wildfire-affected residents in northern Germany.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/feed/ 0 The Anthropologist as Tuning Fork https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48270 This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of lived experience whilst working through ethnographic materials.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/feed/ 0 Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art of Living Together: Timor-Leste’s Aspirational School Curriculum https://allegralaboratory.net/permaculture-pedagogies-and-the-art-of-living-together-timor-lestes-aspirational-school-curriculum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/permaculture-pedagogies-and-the-art-of-living-together-timor-lestes-aspirational-school-curriculum/#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:33:01 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47221 In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/permaculture-pedagogies-and-the-art-of-living-together-timor-lestes-aspirational-school-curriculum/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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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/feed/ 0 Holding Space: On Risk, Rupture, and Rebuilding Academia Otherwise  https://allegralaboratory.net/holding-space-on-risk-rupture-and-rebuilding-academia-otherwise/ https://allegralaboratory.net/holding-space-on-risk-rupture-and-rebuilding-academia-otherwise/#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45700 I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment.  It is early June 2016, and I am in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/holding-space-on-risk-rupture-and-rebuilding-academia-otherwise/feed/ 0 The Emotional Toll of Death in Syria: Revolution to Toppling https://allegralaboratory.net/the-emotional-toll-of-death-in-syria-revolution-to-toppling/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-emotional-toll-of-death-in-syria-revolution-to-toppling/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:15:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45462 After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-emotional-toll-of-death-in-syria-revolution-to-toppling/feed/ 0 Do walls still have ears? https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/ https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45444 How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/feed/ 0 Return to a Bare Land https://allegralaboratory.net/return-to-a-bare-land/ https://allegralaboratory.net/return-to-a-bare-land/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:05:51 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45274 “Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in […]

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