methods Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/methods/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:15:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png methods Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/methods/ 32 32 Poetic Resonance: Dwelling in the Affective Ripples of Ethnography https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/ https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:08:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48427 This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/poetic-resonance-dwelling-in-the-affective-ripples-of-ethnography/feed/ 0 Feeling climate: poetic resonance and the affectivity of climate change https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/ https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:07:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48574 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.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/feeling-climate-poetic-resonance-and-the-affectivity-of-climate-change/feed/ 0 In the Face of Fury: Holding Disruptive and Connective Intensities through Poetic Resonance https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/ https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48489 In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/in-the-face-of-fury-holding-disruptive-and-connective-intensities-through-poetic-resonance/feed/ 0 Pyropoetic Resonances: Humility, Affect, and Being in the Field (on Fire) https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:03:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48533 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.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pyropoetic-resonances-humility-affect-and-being-in-the-field-on-fire/feed/ 0 Movements for Rhythms of Uncertainty https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/ https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:01:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48507 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.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/feed/ 0 The Anthropologist as Tuning Fork https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48270 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.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/feed/ 0 Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/ https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:11:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47701 Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/care-commons-and-thinking-together-an-allegra-approach-to-book-reviews/feed/ 0 What is Critique? EASA LAWNET – Allegra webinar series https://allegralaboratory.net/what-is-critique-easa-lawnet-allegra-webinar-series/ https://allegralaboratory.net/what-is-critique-easa-lawnet-allegra-webinar-series/#respond Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:59:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46417 From February 13 to 19 June 2026 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. What is critique, and what might […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/what-is-critique-easa-lawnet-allegra-webinar-series/feed/ 0 Empathy and dialogue: embracing the art of creative review https://allegralaboratory.net/empathy-and-dialogue-embracing-the-art-of-creative-review/ https://allegralaboratory.net/empathy-and-dialogue-embracing-the-art-of-creative-review/#respond Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43947 Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/empathy-and-dialogue-embracing-the-art-of-creative-review/feed/ 0 Lessons from Tahrir for activists and their allies https://allegralaboratory.net/lessons-from-tahrir-for-activists-and-their-allies/ https://allegralaboratory.net/lessons-from-tahrir-for-activists-and-their-allies/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43858 Reflections on Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press, 2022). After more than […]

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