Poetic Resonance: Dwelling in the Affective Ripples of Ethnography
This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’.
Feeling climate: poetic resonance and the affectivity of climate change
What does it mean to do research with climate? This essay reflects on the potential of poetic resonance as a method of creative experimentation and (auto)ethnographic practice, attuning the researcher/writer to the sensory experience of body and place.
In the Face of Fury: Holding Disruptive and Connective Intensities through Poetic Resonance
In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis.
Pyropoetic Resonances: Humility, Affect, and Being in the Field (on Fire)
This essay explores how the poetic resonance protocol enabled a deeper, embodied engagement with my ethnographic object: a poetry workshop conducted with wildfire-affected residents in northern Germany.
Movements for Rhythms of Uncertainty
This experimental essay treats uncertainty as bodily and relational and uses rhythm as a way of noticing it. It begins in the writing vibrations of the Poetic Resonance Protocol and carries their structure through the composition of the piece.
The Anthropologist as Tuning Fork
This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of lived experience whilst working through ethnographic materials.
Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews
Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues
What is Critique? EASA LAWNET – Allegra webinar series
From February 13 to 19 June 2026 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. What is critique, and what might
Empathy and dialogue: embracing the art of creative review
Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart
Lessons from Tahrir for activists and their allies
Reflections on Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press, 2022). After more than