fieldwork Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/fieldwork/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:34:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png fieldwork Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/fieldwork/ 32 32 “There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/ https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:15:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47443 This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/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 She braids, I listen https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/ https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45219 I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/feed/ 0 Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a Fallen Regime https://allegralaboratory.net/seeing-sednaya-echoes-of-a-fallen-regime/ https://allegralaboratory.net/seeing-sednaya-echoes-of-a-fallen-regime/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:15:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45170 Sednaya Prison, long cloaked in secrecy and fear, has stood as a stark symbol of the Asad regime’s repression. For […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/seeing-sednaya-echoes-of-a-fallen-regime/feed/ 0 At the state’s gate: The uncomplicated coexistence of ideas about rights and hospitality among Syrian refugee youths in Jordan https://allegralaboratory.net/at-the-states-gate-the-uncomplicated-coexistence-of-ideas-about-rights-and-hospitality-among-syrian-refugee-youths-in-jordan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/at-the-states-gate-the-uncomplicated-coexistence-of-ideas-about-rights-and-hospitality-among-syrian-refugee-youths-in-jordan/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45047 Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/at-the-states-gate-the-uncomplicated-coexistence-of-ideas-about-rights-and-hospitality-among-syrian-refugee-youths-in-jordan/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 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 Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South https://allegralaboratory.net/introduction-conducting-ethnographic-fieldwork-in-the-global-south/ https://allegralaboratory.net/introduction-conducting-ethnographic-fieldwork-in-the-global-south/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43343 Conducting field research in the Global South comes with its own challenges in various stages: pre-field, during fieldwork, and post-fieldwork. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/introduction-conducting-ethnographic-fieldwork-in-the-global-south/feed/ 0 Waiting for ghosts https://allegralaboratory.net/waiting-for-ghosts/ https://allegralaboratory.net/waiting-for-ghosts/#respond Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:00:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41670 I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/waiting-for-ghosts/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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