precarity Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/precarity/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 27 May 2026 12:02:01 +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 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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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-violent-face-of-bureaucracy/feed/ 0 Anthropology and absurdity: Introduction https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-and-absurdity-introduction/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-and-absurdity-introduction/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:00:45 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41560 Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-and-absurdity-introduction/feed/ 0 Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa https://allegralaboratory.net/climate-preconstruction-in-coastal-africa/ https://allegralaboratory.net/climate-preconstruction-in-coastal-africa/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:00:34 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41383 The climate crisis is upon us. Extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and fires are increasingly wreaking […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/climate-preconstruction-in-coastal-africa/feed/ 0 Heresies and provocations. For a politics of urban justice  https://allegralaboratory.net/heresies-and-provocation-for-a-politics-of-urban-justice/ https://allegralaboratory.net/heresies-and-provocation-for-a-politics-of-urban-justice/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:00:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41004 In search of urban heresies Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/heresies-and-provocation-for-a-politics-of-urban-justice/feed/ 0 Encountering Precarities: The Podcast https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/ https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:55:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40486 Allegra Editor Ian sits down with Thread guest editors Viola Castellano & Olivia Casagrande to discuss ‘Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-the-podcast/feed/ 0 Unfinished adulthood: discontinuous precarities as epistemic opportunities https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood-discontinuous-precarities-as-epistemic-opportunities/ https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood-discontinuous-precarities-as-epistemic-opportunities/#respond Thu, 04 May 2023 10:00:34 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40076 This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation […]

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