state Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/state/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:34:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png state Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/state/ 32 32 “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 Humanitarianism Hijacked: Israel’s instrumentalization of the humanitarian space https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarianism-hijacked-israels-instrumentalization-of-the-humanitarian-space/ https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarianism-hijacked-israels-instrumentalization-of-the-humanitarian-space/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:10:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46284 In November 2023, during the first phase of the genocide in Gaza, I published a text in Allegra Lab, asking […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarianism-hijacked-israels-instrumentalization-of-the-humanitarian-space/feed/ 0 Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/ https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/#respond Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45670 Hafsa Kanjwal. 2023. Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Decolonization across the so-called Global South led […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation/feed/ 0 Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire  https://allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship-legacies-of-race-and-emergency-in-the-former-british-empire/ https://allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship-legacies-of-race-and-emergency-in-the-former-british-empire/#respond Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:00:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45609 Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship-legacies-of-race-and-emergency-in-the-former-british-empire/feed/ 0 State of Address https://allegralaboratory.net/state-of-address/ https://allegralaboratory.net/state-of-address/#respond Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:30:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45591 It demands a kind of compliance to a taxonomised structure. For us to follow a set of instructions to turn in the correct documents, forms, proofs and annexures.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/state-of-address/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 Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom https://allegralaboratory.net/towers-of-ivory-and-steel-how-israeli-universities-deny-palestinian-freedom/ https://allegralaboratory.net/towers-of-ivory-and-steel-how-israeli-universities-deny-palestinian-freedom/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45337 Maya Wind. 2024. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. London: Verso. In Towers of Ivory and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/towers-of-ivory-and-steel-how-israeli-universities-deny-palestinian-freedom/feed/ 0 At the state’s gate: The uncomplicated coexistence of ideas about rights and hospitality among Syrian refugee youths in Jordan https://allegralaboratory.net/at-the-states-gate-the-uncomplicated-coexistence-of-ideas-about-rights-and-hospitality-among-syrian-refugee-youths-in-jordan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/at-the-states-gate-the-uncomplicated-coexistence-of-ideas-about-rights-and-hospitality-among-syrian-refugee-youths-in-jordan/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45047 Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/at-the-states-gate-the-uncomplicated-coexistence-of-ideas-about-rights-and-hospitality-among-syrian-refugee-youths-in-jordan/feed/ 0 “You have to do your business, right?”: Politics of regulating maternal health markets in Bangladesh https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/ https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43960 Introduction Private health service delivery is becoming increasingly dominant in biomedical landscapes worldwide. In global health circles, private health services […]

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