Against making sense: Appreciating absurd roundabouts in Malaysian Borneo
In Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise innocuous infrastructure into an…
Read MoreIn Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise innocuous infrastructure into an…
Read MoreThe climate crisis is upon us. Extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and fires are increasingly wreaking havoc around the globe….
Read MoreIn search of urban heresies Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over the desk, maps, reports,…
Read MoreIn November and December, Allies meet (online) to watch ethnographic films and discuss with their makers. We have a wonderful line up of movies…
Read MoreBased on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” by Zilberg Elana. I…
Read MoreHow do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they…
Read MoreThis book is a rich cultural analysis of how people live with big cats in India in times of the Anthropocene and climate change….
Read MoreAnyone who spends time in Mexico City will spend much of it in traffic. One of the most clogged cities in the world, residents…
Read MoreIn They Eat Our Sweat, Daniel Agbiboa engages the road transport sector in Lagos, Nigeria, to reveal how corruption operates through a dialectical “double…
Read MoreSmith and Willing is a Paul Antick project. For more information about Smith and Willing, see: Smith & Willing *** Hello, Allegra Lab editorial…
Read More‘Watch out, we’ll catch every one of you!’ Hamza’s shrill voice echoed in the stairwell, and through the opening, he saw a swarm of…
Read MoreThe partial biographies presented in this piece are situated as stoppages that mark generational experiences of structural change in South Korea. In Part I,…
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