knowledge Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/knowledge/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:35:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png knowledge Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/knowledge/ 32 32 Ethnography Beyond Earth: Coloniality, Outer Space, and Anthropological Imagination https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/#respond Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47540 What is at stake in engaging outer space ethnographically when colonial histories and power structures continue to shape its exploration and imagination?

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-beyond-earth-coloniality-outer-space-and-anthropological-imagination/feed/ 0 Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories https://allegralaboratory.net/architectures-of-colonialism-constructed-histories-conflicting-memories/ https://allegralaboratory.net/architectures-of-colonialism-constructed-histories-conflicting-memories/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46632 Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir. 2024. Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories. Berlin: De Gruyter […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/architectures-of-colonialism-constructed-histories-conflicting-memories/feed/ 0 The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe https://allegralaboratory.net/the-killing-of-gaza-reports-on-a-catastrophe/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-killing-of-gaza-reports-on-a-catastrophe/#respond Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46622 Gideon Levy. 2024. The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. New York: Verso. In The Killing of Gaza: Reports on […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-killing-of-gaza-reports-on-a-catastrophe/feed/ 0 Weight https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/ https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:46:19 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45668 Terri gave me this large stone when we met up in 2022 at the Conference on Iroquois Research (Figure 1).1 That year […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/feed/ 0 Practicing slow scholarship in a hard world https://allegralaboratory.net/practicing-slow-scholarship-in-a-hard-world/ https://allegralaboratory.net/practicing-slow-scholarship-in-a-hard-world/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:16:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45516 I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/practicing-slow-scholarship-in-a-hard-world/feed/ 0 An ode to being wrong about creativity https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/ https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:27:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44418 “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/feed/ 0 Online Nuclear Regulators, Trust, and Feelings about the Future in Tanzania https://allegralaboratory.net/online-nuclear-regulators-trust-and-feelings-about-the-future-in-tanzania/ https://allegralaboratory.net/online-nuclear-regulators-trust-and-feelings-about-the-future-in-tanzania/#respond Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:04:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44650 ‘When we talk about the National Atomic Energy Commission, what should an ordinary person think of?’ asked Tanzanian journalist Ramadhan […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/online-nuclear-regulators-trust-and-feelings-about-the-future-in-tanzania/feed/ 0 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 ANTHROKINO https://allegralaboratory.net/allegra-kino/ https://allegralaboratory.net/allegra-kino/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:06:27 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43411 Film Screening & Discussion with Director Nafis Fathollahzadeh Khabur 30′28 November, 13:30 CET Nafis Fathollahzadeh AnthroKino presents the screening of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/allegra-kino/feed/ 0 Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt: On the importance of ambiguity in an authoritarian state https://allegralaboratory.net/denial-aint-just-a-river-in-egypt-on-the-importance-of-ambiguity-in-an-authoritarian-state/ https://allegralaboratory.net/denial-aint-just-a-river-in-egypt-on-the-importance-of-ambiguity-in-an-authoritarian-state/#respond Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:00:34 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41823 In 1931, an American newspaper competition asked its readers to submit the best use of the word denial in a […]

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