law Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/law/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 27 May 2026 12:06:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png law Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/law/ 32 32 Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice: An Exploration Through Seva https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/ https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46903 In the context of the world we live in, one that is experiencing global apartheid and is permissive of abandonment through colonial erasure, the question I ask in this piece is, What can we expect from the law in world-making?

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/feed/ 0 Reading Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine in Times of Genocide https://allegralaboratory.net/reading-elastic-empire-refashioning-war-through-aid-in-palestine-in-times-of-genocide/ https://allegralaboratory.net/reading-elastic-empire-refashioning-war-through-aid-in-palestine-in-times-of-genocide/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46161 Lisa Bhungalia. 2023. Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Israel kills 59 Palestinians in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/reading-elastic-empire-refashioning-war-through-aid-in-palestine-in-times-of-genocide/feed/ 0 Pillaging Palestine: Policy, Property, and Plunder in the Creation of the State of Israel https://allegralaboratory.net/pillaging-palestine-policy-property-and-plunder-in-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pillaging-palestine-policy-property-and-plunder-in-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel/#respond Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46153 Adam Raz, 2024. Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property. New York: Verso. Adam Raz’s Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property is a […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pillaging-palestine-policy-property-and-plunder-in-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel/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 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 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 Meet the smugglers.  Decolonising the mind, questioning the border https://allegralaboratory.net/meet-the-smugglers-decolonising-the-mind-questioning-the-border/ https://allegralaboratory.net/meet-the-smugglers-decolonising-the-mind-questioning-the-border/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43332 To A. and O., for better or for worse.  The story I want to tell might seem to be about […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/meet-the-smugglers-decolonising-the-mind-questioning-the-border/feed/ 0 They eat our sweat https://allegralaboratory.net/they-eat-our-sweat/ https://allegralaboratory.net/they-eat-our-sweat/#respond Thu, 26 Jan 2023 10:34:33 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39702 In They Eat Our Sweat, Daniel Agbiboa engages the road transport sector in Lagos, Nigeria, to reveal how corruption operates […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/they-eat-our-sweat/feed/ 0 Who gets to be ‘Myanmar’ at the ICJ? https://allegralaboratory.net/who-gets-to-be-myanmar-at-the-icj/ https://allegralaboratory.net/who-gets-to-be-myanmar-at-the-icj/#respond Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:48:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=37865 The Myanmar military will appear at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on 21 February 2022. Their […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/who-gets-to-be-myanmar-at-the-icj/feed/ 0 Heritage out of Control: When Heritage Turns to Rubble https://allegralaboratory.net/heritage-out-of-control-when-heritage-turns-to-rubble/ https://allegralaboratory.net/heritage-out-of-control-when-heritage-turns-to-rubble/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:15:03 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=37121 In December 2017, Toungouma was stolen, the famed stone said to render justice in the Département of Dogondoutchi, Niger. When […]

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