Whose crisis is this crisis?
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation […]
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela
While a graduate student in social anthropology, Moisés Lino e Silva’s curiosity about the scarcity of freedom and lack of
They eat our sweat
In They Eat Our Sweat, Daniel Agbiboa engages the road transport sector in Lagos, Nigeria, to reveal how corruption operates
The intimate life of dissent
Book review of Amarasuriya, Harini, et al. The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, 2020. The Intimate Life
Seeing Is Not Believing
This piece explores how the indexical quality of Facebook livestreams and the particular claims they make to represent or manifest
“You hurt our monuments, you hurt our heroes, you go to jail for ten years”: Contested histories at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021
Minutes before Trump told his supporters to march on the US Capitol and to “fight like hell,” he reminded them
A (Personal) Tale of Two Socialisms
Note from Allegra editors: We publish this video and transcript of EASA President Mariya Ivancheva’s talk from the annual conference
“We don’t have to whisper”: Fieldnotes from Odesa
I met Engineer Yakiv[1] on board a merchant ship I had joined just south of Sri Lanka in early 2013.
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PART I Two Years Ago It was a hot day in July, and clocks were striking eight. It had been
Morumbi and Paraisópolis: A Four-Act Play
Dramatis Personae Heitor: a 13-year-old boy Mr. Gomes, his father: a waste handler, working at a garbage dump Ms. Gomes,