precarity Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/precarity/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:39:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png precarity Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/precarity/ 32 32 Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field? https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:35 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46361 Emanuelle Roth critically examines how institutional risk frameworks reshape ethnographic practice through her experience of being recalled from doctoral fieldwork in Guinea after disclosing a pregnancy.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/feed/ 0 Fieldwork in the context of Covid-19 https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/ https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:06:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46377 The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally reshaped ethnographic research, forcing scholars to reconsider fieldwork methods, ethics, and institutional responsibilities.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/feed/ 0 Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field https://allegralaboratory.net/elective-affinities-fragility-and-injustice-in-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/elective-affinities-fragility-and-injustice-in-the-field/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:06:12 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46458 Luisa Enria reflects on profoundly sensitive experiences of fragility, power and reflexivity in the context of her long term ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/elective-affinities-fragility-and-injustice-in-the-field/feed/ 0 Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48547 During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mobility-as-dependence-politics-of-getting-around-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-rural-vermont/feed/ 0 Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere a Wall https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/ https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:59:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47485 On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/everywhere-is-a-border-everywhere-a-wall/feed/ 0 Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/ https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:35:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47415 Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/rooms-that-refuse-to-remember-us-on-the-hidden-labor-of-hospitality/feed/ 0 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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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-transition-impressions-from-damascus-after-the-toppling-of-the-assad-regime/feed/ 1 Being Fungible – They Only Want Us from the Neck Down https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/ https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:30:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43904 They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/feed/ 0 The violent face of bureaucracy https://allegralaboratory.net/the-violent-face-of-bureaucracy/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-violent-face-of-bureaucracy/#respond Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:00:44 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41552 Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of […]

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