gender Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/gender/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:41:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png gender Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/gender/ 32 32 The ethnographer’s body is gendered https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46367 Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site of knowledge production and vulnerability.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/feed/ 0 Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field? https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:35 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46361 Emanuelle Roth critically examines how institutional risk frameworks reshape ethnographic practice through her experience of being recalled from doctoral fieldwork in Guinea after disclosing a pregnancy.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/feed/ 0 Orientalized Gender and the Field https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46365 Drawing on her Master’s fieldwork in Leipzig, Salma Moustafa Khalil reflects on how orientalism, gender, and racialised assumptions shape ethnographic encounters when a Middle Eastern woman conducts research in Europe.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/orientalized-gender-and-the-field/feed/ 1 Gender and danger: the ‘good girl persona’ in institutional fieldwork https://allegralaboratory.net/gender-and-danger-the-good-girl-persona-in-institutional-fieldwork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/gender-and-danger-the-good-girl-persona-in-institutional-fieldwork/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46331 This post reflects on contemporary challenges in ethnographic research, foregrounding the everyday ethical, emotional, and institutional pressures that shape fieldwork practice.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/gender-and-danger-the-good-girl-persona-in-institutional-fieldwork/feed/ 0 Strengthening Women’s Financial Rights After Marriage: Matrimonial Property under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:12:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48377 While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of women’s rights to matrimonial property has been uncharted territory.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/feed/ 0 Invisible Flight: Privileged Mobility and the Hidden Geography of Displacement https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:15:05 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48109 This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration regimes.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/feed/ 0 Anti-heroines and Oman’s revolutionary afterlives https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-and-omans-revolutionary-afterlives/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-and-omans-revolutionary-afterlives/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46844 Images of female fighters in liberation movements from the global south have a wide appeal as symbols of radical social emancipation and iconic revolutionary heroines.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-and-omans-revolutionary-afterlives/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 Between Borders and Ballots https://allegralaboratory.net/between-borders-and-ballots/ https://allegralaboratory.net/between-borders-and-ballots/#comments Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:51:44 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43255 “I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/between-borders-and-ballots/feed/ 4 Afterlives of revolution: Alice Wilson’s response https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-alice-wilsons-response/ https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-alice-wilsons-response/#respond Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:05:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41791 I first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were […]

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