Give a Hand To the Fallen, as Long as You Are Standing: Earthquake Disaster Relief among Afghans
Mullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly. He looked tall in…
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…
Read MoreWhile a graduate student in social anthropology, Moisés Lino e Silva’s curiosity about the scarcity of freedom and lack of liberty in Brazilian favelas…
Read MoreIn They Eat Our Sweat, Daniel Agbiboa engages the road transport sector in Lagos, Nigeria, to reveal how corruption operates through a dialectical “double…
Read MoreBook review of Amarasuriya, Harini, et al. The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, 2020. The Intimate Life of Dissent examines practices…
Read MoreThis piece explores how the indexical quality of Facebook livestreams and the particular claims they make to represent or manifest “reality” connect with long-standing…
Read MoreMinutes before Trump told his supporters to march on the US Capitol and to “fight like hell,” he reminded them of a “little law”…
Read MoreNote from Allegra editors: We publish this video and transcript of EASA President Mariya Ivancheva’s talk from the annual conference Why the World Needs…
Read MoreI met Engineer Yakiv[1] on board a merchant ship I had joined just south of Sri Lanka in early 2013. I was there to…
Read MorePART I Two Years Ago It was a hot day in July, and clocks were striking eight. It had been fifteen years since the…
Read MoreDramatis Personae Heitor: a 13-year-old boy Mr. Gomes, his father: a waste handler, working at a garbage dump Ms. Gomes, his mother: a dry…
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