racism Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/racism/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 27 May 2026 12:06:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png racism Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/racism/ 32 32 Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice: An Exploration Through Seva https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/ https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46903 In the context of the world we live in, one that is experiencing global apartheid and is permissive of abandonment through colonial erasure, the question I ask in this piece is, What can we expect from the law in world-making?

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/radical-friendship-and-anti-heroic-practice-an-exploration-through-seva/feed/ 0 British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945 https://allegralaboratory.net/british-culture-after-empire-race-decolonisation-and-migration-since-1945/ https://allegralaboratory.net/british-culture-after-empire-race-decolonisation-and-migration-since-1945/#respond Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46228 Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker, eds. 2024. British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/british-culture-after-empire-race-decolonisation-and-migration-since-1945/feed/ 0 Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires https://allegralaboratory.net/collaborative-settler-colonialism-japanese-migration-to-brazil-in-the-age-of-empires/ https://allegralaboratory.net/collaborative-settler-colonialism-japanese-migration-to-brazil-in-the-age-of-empires/#respond Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44840 Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/collaborative-settler-colonialism-japanese-migration-to-brazil-in-the-age-of-empires/feed/ 0 A world upside down https://allegralaboratory.net/a-world-upside-down/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-world-upside-down/#respond Thu, 30 May 2024 07:20:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41775 In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-world-upside-down/feed/ 0 How solidarity with migrant people is stifled at the France-UK border https://allegralaboratory.net/how-solidarity-with-migrant-people-is-stifled-at-the-france-uk-border/ https://allegralaboratory.net/how-solidarity-with-migrant-people-is-stifled-at-the-france-uk-border/#respond Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:00:40 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41309 Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/how-solidarity-with-migrant-people-is-stifled-at-the-france-uk-border/feed/ 0 On an abyssal edge: a streak of blood, and absence https://allegralaboratory.net/on-an-abyssal-edge-a-streak-of-blood-and-absence/ https://allegralaboratory.net/on-an-abyssal-edge-a-streak-of-blood-and-absence/#respond Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:01:18 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41236 The murdered is carried on the shoulders. In haste, a cadaver shrouded in white is slipped into an indoor mass […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/on-an-abyssal-edge-a-streak-of-blood-and-absence/feed/ 0 The politics of condemnation https://allegralaboratory.net/the-politics-of-condemnation/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-politics-of-condemnation/#respond Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:02:37 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40952 As if he was, for the occasion of Halloween, joyfully embracing the figure of the grotesque, Hubert Aiwanger, former as […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-politics-of-condemnation/feed/ 0 Going beneath the surface: The subtler messages about forced displacement in ‘The Swimmers’ https://allegralaboratory.net/going-beneath-the-surface-the-subtler-messages-about-forced-displacement-in-the-swimmers/ https://allegralaboratory.net/going-beneath-the-surface-the-subtler-messages-about-forced-displacement-in-the-swimmers/#respond Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:00:18 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39924 The screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/going-beneath-the-surface-the-subtler-messages-about-forced-displacement-in-the-swimmers/feed/ 0 Against false solidarity. A call for true solidarity among people with experiences of displacement. https://allegralaboratory.net/against-false-solidarity-a-call-for-true-solidarity-among-people-with-experiences-of-displacement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/against-false-solidarity-a-call-for-true-solidarity-among-people-with-experiences-of-displacement/#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:00:09 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39867 Ideas discussed in this contribution were first presented at the Solidarity, Displacement & the University workshop that took place on […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/against-false-solidarity-a-call-for-true-solidarity-among-people-with-experiences-of-displacement/feed/ 0 Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/nicky-falkofs-worrier-state-part-1/ https://allegralaboratory.net/nicky-falkofs-worrier-state-part-1/#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:16:29 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39745 Falkof’s book discusses the everyday experiences of fear and moral anxiety in the city of Johannesburg in post-apartheid state South […]

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