Sustainability in the Age of Austerity
Recently, a series of heated debates around the use and abuse of the buzzword ‘anthropocene’ to qualify our current human […]
Why Metrics Cannot Measure Research Quality: A Response to the HEFCE Consultation
We re-post here the reponse to the Higher Education Funding Council for England written by Dr Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS) and
From Maya enthusiast to Occupy activist: Allegra meets David Graeber REDUX
David Graeber (1961) is the author of several books on theories of value, social thory and anarchism, including the award-winning
#CHILL – with La Newsletter!
As most of Allegra’s friends likely know by now, the action on our humble website is merely a fraction of
Beard is fine – but I still want a Moustache!
Lights, Camera, Action. The climax approaches as the score count continues in one of the biggest – and certainly the
‘In the air’ – Discussion with Eeva Berglund, EASA Book Series
Since 1992, the EASA has published its own collection, initially with Routledge and now with BerghahnBooks. Among its most popular
#PublicationJihad!
This week will be Allegra’s first ever #PublicationJihad! What this means is a full week of Spectacular Blogging Activity devoted to
The Laboratory as a Space of Intellectual Freedom
Some of our devoted readers may have wondered why we chose to call Allegra a virtual LABORATORY. That (one of)
Anthropological Job-hunting (and gathering): Finding Non-Academic Work (1 of 3)
In my last post I expressed my concern that an overemphasis on oblique anthropological theory was doing a disservice to
ALLEGRA: The Newsletter!
As is unclear to no one who has been following our posts recently, one of the main ideas for Allegra