#AisforAnthropology: Introduction
To kick-off our #AisforAnthropology thread, Nika Dubrovsky will be talking to us throughout the week about her project, A4Kids. Our hope is that this…
Read MoreTo kick-off our #AisforAnthropology thread, Nika Dubrovsky will be talking to us throughout the week about her project, A4Kids. Our hope is that this…
Read MoreAnand Pandian speaks to Allegra editor Ian M. Cook about his latest book A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke, 2019). Special guests…
Read MoreThe fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current COVID-19 pandemic. The spread…
Read MoreLibraria is a collective of researchers based in the social sciences who seek to bring about a more open, diverse, community-controlled scholarly communication system….
Read MoreImagine dozens of tables in a huge hall, with 12-15 children sitting at each. They negotiate with each other, squabble, and make up. They…
Read MoreNowadays, most people are asking themselves what will happen in the coming months. In this time of COVID-19, it is not just the present…
Read MoreAround the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers)…
Read MoreMicha Rahder’s An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation is an ethnographically rich account of the dense conservation networks…
Read MoreRecently on a scholar’s email listserv dealing with Myanmar (Burma) issues, I learned that at some universities in Australia, Singapore, and beyond, scholars intent…
Read MoreAs COVID-19 disrupts life for billions of people around the world, it also calls into question the very notion of fieldwork and compels us…
Read MoreInfrastructure is, in common understanding, a very material thing. We think of it as something made of iron and concrete. Even when going unnoticed…
Read MoreWelcome to The Corona Diaries from Allegra, first recorded in April 2020 as part of the Corona thematic thread. The diaries, published once a…
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