Scholarly Podcasting Book: Invitation to a Public Mass Peer Review
I (Ian, member of the Allegra Lab editorial collective) ‘wrote’ a book called ‘Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How?’. It’ll come […]
Collaboration and Creativity
It was already dark when I entered the small shop in the informal camp in rural Lebanon, where Khulud was
Punctuation and Flow
The past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational
Defiant Engagements
Working in political environments that run counter to our personal values and commitments, and with people who are challenging these
Towards an Anthropology of Coups
When is a coup a coup? Reflections on the anthropological study of ‘coups’ There have been more than 200 coups
Being a parent in the field
Ethnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that
ResonanceCast
ResonanceCast
ResonanceCast is a new multimodal series that seeks to tease out timely shared concerns. After their articles have been published
ResonanceCast #1: Vulnerability
Podcast with Pascale Schild and Sandhya Fuchs, moderated by Ian M. Cook Allegra Lab · ResonanceCast #1 Vulnerability Referenced
Reciprocal Vulnerability in the Face of Patriarchal Violence
“Everything is research data.” As PhD students we must have heard this statement from teachers, mentors, and supervisors a hundred
Strange Bedfellows: On Trauma and Ethnographic Vulnerability
I never expected that laughter would be part of the solution. I had set out on fieldwork with rather vague