The folly of little kings
On Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the Cuban head of state…
Read MoreOn Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the Cuban head of state…
Read MoreAnthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are staying with the strange…
Read MoreOver 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by far-right leader Le Pen….
Read More Allegra Lab · From Despair To Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism TRANSCRIPT OF THE AUDIO ESSAY…
Read MoreIn search of urban heresies Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over the desk, maps, reports,…
Read MoreAs if he was, for the occasion of Halloween, joyfully embracing the figure of the grotesque, Hubert Aiwanger, former as well as designated minister…
Read MoreWhat better place could there be to think about the interconnections between service, duty and care than the Venetian Palazzo Vendramin dei Carmini? The…
Read MoreIntroduction: Understanding as Resonance Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård In this third section of the thread, Understanding as Resonance, the essays explore that…
Read MoreHow do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they…
Read MoreMullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly. He looked tall in…
Read MoreYou are warmly invited to the EASA LAWNET workshop in collaboration with Allegra Lab: From Critique to Political Practice. The workshop will take place…
Read MoreThis post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both…
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