gender Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/gender/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:50:34 +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 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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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-alice-wilsons-response/feed/ 0 Afterlives of Revolution: Nathalie Peutz’s comments https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nathalie-peutzs-comments/ https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nathalie-peutzs-comments/#respond Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:04:26 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41784 In the mid-2000s, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the impact of environmental conservation and development projects on the Yemeni island […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nathalie-peutzs-comments/feed/ 0 Afterlives of revolution: Nikkie Wiegink’s comments https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/ https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/#respond Sat, 01 Jun 2024 07:02:28 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41789 “The struggle continues” is a famous and frequently repeated phrase attributed to Eduardo Mondlane, the first President of FRELIMO, the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/feed/ 0 Letter from Gaza with a response from New York https://allegralaboratory.net/letter-from-gaza-with-a-response-from-new-york/ https://allegralaboratory.net/letter-from-gaza-with-a-response-from-new-york/#respond Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:42:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41279 The Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS) at Birzeit University in Palestine has launched “Women’s Testimonies from Gaza”, a project aiming […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/letter-from-gaza-with-a-response-from-new-york/feed/ 0 The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco https://allegralaboratory.net/the-outside-migration-as-life-in-morocco/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-outside-migration-as-life-in-morocco/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:40:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41136 Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-outside-migration-as-life-in-morocco/feed/ 0 Waiting as Productive Fieldwork https://allegralaboratory.net/waiting-as-productive-fieldwork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/waiting-as-productive-fieldwork/#respond Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:00:29 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40470 Several weeks into my fieldwork at one of the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDA) in Telangana, a federal state in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/waiting-as-productive-fieldwork/feed/ 0 A knot in the throat, or that time a gangster died of appendicitis https://allegralaboratory.net/a-knot-in-the-throat-or-that-time-a-gangster-died-of-appendicitis/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-knot-in-the-throat-or-that-time-a-gangster-died-of-appendicitis/#respond Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:00:23 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40477 Based on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” […]

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