Turkish Cemeteries for the “Unknown”
I first heard about the Cemetery for the Unknown from a friend, Ceyda, while returning from the funeral of her […]
A Trajectory and the Curatorial Turn
Where did afterlives fever come from? These reflections suggest a trajectory. Today, amid a lively eruption of usages, afterlife has
Call for Reviews: Anthropology of Climate Change and the Environment
As 2020 started with the apocalyptic images of the Australian bush-fires, we at Allegra, felt there was an emergency to
Decolonising Environmentalism
Urgency and Transition Environmentalism is rhetorically framed as a “Good Thing”, unquestionably. Being environmentally friendly is, as it were, a
#WhoseGreen? Chololo Ecovillage and the ‘Secret Formula of Development’
The village of Chololo is situated around 40km South-East of the political capital of Tanzania, Dodoma. Often described as the
Contested Sustainabilities and Socio-Ecological Change
The accelerating growth of the technosphere, climate crises, shifting species distribution and other phenomena contribute to increasingly dramatic socio-ecological changes
AAAs in the Anthropocene #AmAnth2018
This meeting was, for me, overshadowed – and somehow defined – by the #CaliforniaWoodfire smoke. I was flying in from
Environmental Panics: The emission scandal in Germany
In September and again in November 2015 the famous German car company, Volkswagen AG at its headquarter in Virginia, received
Adopt a Canadian: A short story
I wrote this fiction in January 2017, following a series of events in international politics. I felt the need to
Hunting in Northern Cyprus
November 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was