politics Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/politics/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:35:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png politics Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/politics/ 32 32 Projects and Anti-Projects  https://allegralaboratory.net/projects-and-anti-projects/ https://allegralaboratory.net/projects-and-anti-projects/#respond Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46676 Projects are premised on bringing forth something new; they are premised on creation, invention, and improvement.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/projects-and-anti-projects/feed/ 0 Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within https://allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-silence-is-destroying-european-universities-from-within/ https://allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-silence-is-destroying-european-universities-from-within/#respond Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:59:13 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46197 The camera shows a deserted, dilapidated room somewhere in war-torn Ukraine. On an intercepted phone call a Russian soldier argues […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-silence-is-destroying-european-universities-from-within/feed/ 0 Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/ https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/#respond Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45670 Hafsa Kanjwal. 2023. Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Decolonization across the so-called Global South led […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/feed/ 0 Recalibrating Political Islam? The Syrian Revolution in Global Narratives https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-political-islam-the-syrian-revolution-in-global-narratives/ https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-political-islam-the-syrian-revolution-in-global-narratives/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:50:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45133 In the shifting political landscape of post-Asad Syria, global narratives surrounding political Islam are undergoing a recalibration, blurring engagement with […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-political-islam-the-syrian-revolution-in-global-narratives/feed/ 0 Do walls still have ears? https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/ https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45444 How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/feed/ 0 Avowing Revolution https://allegralaboratory.net/avowing-revolution/ https://allegralaboratory.net/avowing-revolution/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45470 Khaldoun al-Mallah, a Palestinian-Syrian medical doctor and writer, journeyed south from exile in Idlib Province two days after the fall […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/avowing-revolution/feed/ 0 The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian Drama’s Prescience https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:15:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45405 On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/feed/ 0 Recalibrating Syria: New Openings for Anthropological Engagement https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45349 Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . . […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/feed/ 0 Soliciting Slaps – Notes from the Margins of Academia  https://allegralaboratory.net/soliciting-slaps-notes-from-the-margins-of-academia/ https://allegralaboratory.net/soliciting-slaps-notes-from-the-margins-of-academia/#comments Mon, 26 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45038 Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/soliciting-slaps-notes-from-the-margins-of-academia/feed/ 1 Syria in transition: Impressions from Damascus after the toppling of the Assad regime https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/ https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44593 This post was written in February 2025. In late January 2025, just under two months after the toppling of the […]

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