ethnography Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/ethnography/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:37:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png ethnography Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/ethnography/ 32 32 In the grey zone of humanitarian honors: ‘Heroines of solidarity’ in the European ‘refugee crisis’ https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-grey-zone-of-humanitarian-honors-heroines-of-solidarity-in-the-european-refugee-crisis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-grey-zone-of-humanitarian-honors-heroines-of-solidarity-in-the-european-refugee-crisis/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46636 This article explores the interplay between morality and power in the conferral of humanitarian honors during the European “refugee crisis”.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-grey-zone-of-humanitarian-honors-heroines-of-solidarity-in-the-european-refugee-crisis/feed/ 0 The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian Drama’s Prescience https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:15:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45405 On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/feed/ 0 Recalibrating Syria: New Openings for Anthropological Engagement https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45349 Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . . […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/feed/ 0 Syria in transition: Impressions from Damascus after the toppling of the Assad regime https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/ https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44593 This post was written in February 2025. In late January 2025, just under two months after the toppling of the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/feed/ 1 Regulating Underwater Worlds: Anthropology, experts & thinking cross culturally about the sea https://allegralaboratory.net/regulating-underwater-worlds-anthropology-experts-thinking-cross-culturally-about-the-sea/ https://allegralaboratory.net/regulating-underwater-worlds-anthropology-experts-thinking-cross-culturally-about-the-sea/#respond Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:09:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43974 Thinking about the sea  Figure 1: The Sea is Not Empty’, the Women Dreaming emerging from the sea in Marra […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/regulating-underwater-worlds-anthropology-experts-thinking-cross-culturally-about-the-sea/feed/ 0 Ethics without the Ethics: The Institutionalized Committees and the Question of Integrity https://allegralaboratory.net/ethics-without-the-ethics-the-institutionalized-committees-and-the-question-of-integrity-by-sertac-sehlikoglu/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethics-without-the-ethics-the-institutionalized-committees-and-the-question-of-integrity-by-sertac-sehlikoglu/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43635 I would like to use this opportunity to reflect on the long journey of ethics that I, as the PI […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethics-without-the-ethics-the-institutionalized-committees-and-the-question-of-integrity-by-sertac-sehlikoglu/feed/ 0 Street Books in Tehran: Collective Mentality and Decolonizing Research Engagement https://allegralaboratory.net/street-books-in-tehran-collective-mentality-and-decolonizing-research-engagement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/street-books-in-tehran-collective-mentality-and-decolonizing-research-engagement/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:00:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43514 Wandering through the central streets of Tehran, you will invariably come across the ubiquitous street booksellers and their stalls. As […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/street-books-in-tehran-collective-mentality-and-decolonizing-research-engagement/feed/ 0 The Ethics of Researching the Far-Right in the Global South https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-researching-the-far-right-in-the-global-south/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-researching-the-far-right-in-the-global-south/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:30:49 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43349 It was a hot sweltering Sunday afternoon in the bustling city of Karachi. I had come to the Bahar-e-Shariat mosque […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethics-of-researching-the-far-right-in-the-global-south/feed/ 0 An audio note on Commitment https://allegralaboratory.net/a-audio-note-on-commitment/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-audio-note-on-commitment/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:02:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43550 ‘We have to sit with the structural inequality of our work, and not try to dance around the obligation of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-audio-note-on-commitment/feed/ 0 The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening https://allegralaboratory.net/the-transformative-potential-of-intimacy-turkish-coffee-talk-and-ethnographic-listening/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-transformative-potential-of-intimacy-turkish-coffee-talk-and-ethnographic-listening/#respond Wed, 27 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43369 Until the fairly recent turn towards therapy and mental health of educated middle classes in Turkey, talking with one’s neighbor, […]

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