EASA Elections: Interview with Mariya Ivancheva
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a […]
EASA Elections: Interview with Sarah Green
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a
Stranger in paradise
This post explores the notion of displacement through the experience of Franziska, who has spent her whole life in a
State of Rebellion
In State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard moves away from an anthropological tendency
Bringing anthropologies of the state to Mainz: A workshop report
With #anthrostate, allegralab seems to suggest that there is a distinct subdiscipline of anthropology that studies the contemporary state. However,
Sovereignty in Exile
As a contributor to a recent issue in Cultural Anthropology noted, enough attention has been devoted to sovereignty over the
The Truth About Crime
What is ‘crime’? A social pathology? A violation of social order? The object or raison d’être of law enforcement? How
Because we’re #HAPPY? REDUX
Today we have, once again, witnessed the arrival of the World Happiness Reports – reports that claim nothing less than
Living a good life through infrastructure. A Review of three recent monographs on Central Asia
This post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof.
The State and International Relations, Ethnographically: Sites, Objects, Lives
This week begins a new thematic thread conceived around the topic, “The State and International Relations, Ethnographically: Sites, Objects, Lives.”