space/place Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/space-place/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 27 May 2026 11:52:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png space/place Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/space-place/ 32 32 What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/#respond Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47779 Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/what-migration-studies-can-learn-from-architecture/feed/ 0 “There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/ https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:15:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47443 This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/there-is-nothing-to-see-silence-and-the-atmosphere-of-war/feed/ 0 Go to Palestine—And Go with All Your Heart https://allegralaboratory.net/go-to-palestine-and-go-with-all-your-heart/ https://allegralaboratory.net/go-to-palestine-and-go-with-all-your-heart/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:54:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47091 Settler colonial terror in a question Amidst arranging a backpack with her family during a short trip away, an inquisitive […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/go-to-palestine-and-go-with-all-your-heart/feed/ 0 When the Ground Refuses to Settle: Living with Unfinished Landscapes in the Western Ghats  https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/ https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/#respond Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:29:23 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46749 On the national highway that cuts across the lower slopes of the Western Ghats, the surface itself is rarely the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/feed/ 0 Weight https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/ https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:46:19 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45668 Terri gave me this large stone when we met up in 2022 at the Conference on Iroquois Research (Figure 1).1 That year […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/weight/feed/ 0 Syria in the Moment https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-the-moment/ https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-the-moment/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:30:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45132 While thinking optimistically about politics is never wise, it is impossible not to share in the euphoria of Syrians for […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/syria-in-the-moment/feed/ 0 Forever no more? Between new and old worlds https://allegralaboratory.net/forever-no-more-between-new-and-old-worlds/ https://allegralaboratory.net/forever-no-more-between-new-and-old-worlds/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:33:23 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45260 The fall of Asad’s state of eternity on December 8th, the liberation of his regime’s prisons and security centres, the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/forever-no-more-between-new-and-old-worlds/feed/ 0 Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy https://allegralaboratory.net/prehistories-of-the-war-on-terror-a-critical-genealogy/ https://allegralaboratory.net/prehistories-of-the-war-on-terror-a-critical-genealogy/#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45083 A.J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. Miller. 2024. Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy. Philadelphia: University of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/prehistories-of-the-war-on-terror-a-critical-genealogy/feed/ 0 Anthrokino: Open Unit https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-open-unit/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-open-unit/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 15:18:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44897 Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch Open Unit by Paul Antick. The screening will be […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-open-unit/feed/ 0 Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-palestine-the-zionist-left-and-the-making-of-the-palestinian-nakba/ https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-palestine-the-zionist-left-and-the-making-of-the-palestinian-nakba/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 06:17:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44863 Areej Sabbagh-Khoury. 2024. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. […]

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