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Research as Friendship? – Crowdfunding on wemakeit
A refuge for humanity? Slow-paced and transdisciplinary research in Switzerland and Cameroon: Enable a transmedia publication fuelled by a 20 years friend- and researchpartnership.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Today on Allegra, @gaurisaxena.bsky.social reviews Doble, Liburd, and Parker's new volume on the diverse and diffuse legacies of empire in contemporary British culture, suggesting that it shines light on "arenas of research where ... links to colonialism are still nascent" @manchesterup.bsky.social
British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945 - Allegra Lab
Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker, eds. 2024. British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945. Manchester: Manchester
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November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Today on Allegra, @gaurisaxena.bsky.social reviews Doble, Liburd, and Parker's new volume on the diverse and diffuse legacies of empire in contemporary British culture, suggesting that it shines light on "arenas of research where ... links to colonialism are still nascent" @manchesterup.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality"
Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
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November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality"
Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks
#gathering! Online launch of "Alternatives to Extractivism. A Manifesto of Propositions and Unresolved Questions"
THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents.
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THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#gathering! Online launch of "Alternatives to Extractivism. A Manifesto of Propositions and Unresolved Questions"
THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents.
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How is war waged through aid? How have US policies evolved to discipline aid seekers, humanitarian workers, and service organizations alike? Mudasir Amin engages with Lisa Bhungalia's book Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine in this timely review.
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Reading Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine in Times of Genocide - Allegra Lab
Lisa Bhungalia. 2023. Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Israel kills 59 Palestinians in
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October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
How is war waged through aid? How have US policies evolved to discipline aid seekers, humanitarian workers, and service organizations alike? Mudasir Amin engages with Lisa Bhungalia's book Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine in this timely review.
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
In Andrea Maria Pelliconi's critical engagement with Adam Raz's new book Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property, she links Israeli pillaging to a broader project of demographic engineering. @versobooks.bsky.social
Pillaging Palestine: Policy, Property, and Plunder in the Creation of the State of Israel - Allegra Lab
Adam Raz, 2024. Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property. New York: Verso. Adam Raz’s Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property is a harrowing and
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October 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In Andrea Maria Pelliconi's critical engagement with Adam Raz's new book Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property, she links Israeli pillaging to a broader project of demographic engineering. @versobooks.bsky.social
In this beautiful essay, anthropologist and theatrist Debra Vidali attends to the heaviness of what we carry with us – materially, ethically, and existentially. At times, this weight comes to us in the form of a gift, whose significance calls us to deepen spirals of relationship and accountability.
Weight - Allegra Lab
Terri gave me this large stone when we met up in 2022 at the Conference on Iroquois Research (Figure 1). That year it was held
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October 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
In this beautiful essay, anthropologist and theatrist Debra Vidali attends to the heaviness of what we carry with us – materially, ethically, and existentially. At times, this weight comes to us in the form of a gift, whose significance calls us to deepen spirals of relationship and accountability.
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Don't miss our next Anthrokino on 2 October, when we watch and discuss The Rose of Ioannina with filmmakers and a discussant allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-t...
Anthrokino: The Rose of Ioannina - Allegra Lab
Join us at the upcoming Anthrokino to watch The Rose of Ioannina by Na’ama Landau, Livnat Konopny-Decleve and Adi Liraz. After the screening, we will
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September 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Don't miss our next Anthrokino on 2 October, when we watch and discuss The Rose of Ioannina with filmmakers and a discussant allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-t...
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September 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Say no! to HE cuts in Switzerland: Aktionstag 1. Oktober
Sign the petition: bezahlbar-studieren.ch
Sign the petition: bezahlbar-studieren.ch
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I wrote for @allegralab.bsky.social on @yaelberda.bsky.social’s Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship. A brilliant book on how paperwork (censuses, permits, blacklists) became tools of colonial control and still shape mobility & exclusion today.
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Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire - Allegra Lab
Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge
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September 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I wrote for @allegralab.bsky.social on @yaelberda.bsky.social’s Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship. A brilliant book on how paperwork (censuses, permits, blacklists) became tools of colonial control and still shape mobility & exclusion today.
allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bur...
allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bur...
Newly published: In his review of Matan Kaminer's 2024 book on the Thai farmworkers toiling on Israeli vegetable farms, Paul Kohlbry suggests that the book has much to teach us "about the workings of settler colonialism and capitalist domination in the world today." @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture - Allegra Lab
Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is
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September 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Newly published: In his review of Matan Kaminer's 2024 book on the Thai farmworkers toiling on Israeli vegetable farms, Paul Kohlbry suggests that the book has much to teach us "about the workings of settler colonialism and capitalist domination in the world today." @stanfordpress.bsky.social
A powerful personal essay and call by Luisa T. Schneider
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Holding Space: On Risk, Rupture, and Rebuilding Academia Otherwise - Allegra Lab
I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in Freetown, Sierra Leone, lying on a mattress in a room I share
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September 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A powerful personal essay and call by Luisa T. Schneider
allegralaboratory.net/holding-spac...
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What does a Black visual and sonic practice look and sound like? What creative practice centres Black diasporic and Black femme epistemologies?
We're back from Summer break and have got new stuff for you!
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We're back from Summer break and have got new stuff for you!
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Breaking Form: Practices of Black visuality and Sonority - Allegra Lab
Realizing that things are because things are connected. In the spaces between, we
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September 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What does a Black visual and sonic practice look and sound like? What creative practice centres Black diasporic and Black femme epistemologies?
We're back from Summer break and have got new stuff for you!
allegralaboratory.net/breaking-for...
We're back from Summer break and have got new stuff for you!
allegralaboratory.net/breaking-for...
Don't miss our next Anthrokino on 2 October, when we watch and discuss The Rose of Ioannina with filmmakers and a discussant allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-t...
Anthrokino: The Rose of Ioannina - Allegra Lab
Join us at the upcoming Anthrokino to watch The Rose of Ioannina by Na’ama Landau, Livnat Konopny-Decleve and Adi Liraz. After the screening, we will
allegralaboratory.net
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Don't miss our next Anthrokino on 2 October, when we watch and discuss The Rose of Ioannina with filmmakers and a discussant allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-t...
🎞️ Join us to watch The Rose of Ioannina by Na’ama Landau, Livnat Konopny-Decleve and Adi Liraz
✨Oct. 02, 2025 12:30-13:30 CET
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✨Oct. 02, 2025 12:30-13:30 CET
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September 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
🎞️ Join us to watch The Rose of Ioannina by Na’ama Landau, Livnat Konopny-Decleve and Adi Liraz
✨Oct. 02, 2025 12:30-13:30 CET
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✨ more info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-t...
✨Oct. 02, 2025 12:30-13:30 CET
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In this succinct and timely review, @marinegauthier.bsky.social's engages with Yael Berda's new book at the intersection of empire, borders, and colonial administration to show that "citizenship in postcolonial states functions as a mobility regime"—a sobering reality that stands the test of time.
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire - Allegra Lab
Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge
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September 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
In this succinct and timely review, @marinegauthier.bsky.social's engages with Yael Berda's new book at the intersection of empire, borders, and colonial administration to show that "citizenship in postcolonial states functions as a mobility regime"—a sobering reality that stands the test of time.
Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social
The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth - Allegra Lab
Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that best captures
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September 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social
And here's a film on the same: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-s...
September 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And here's a film on the same: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-s...
Thursday! Lunchtime! Filmtime! Anthrokino!
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ANTHROKINO: STATE OF ADDRESS - Allegra Lab
Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch State of Address. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
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September 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Thursday! Lunchtime! Filmtime! Anthrokino!
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Important guidelines on how to cut ties with Israeli academic institutions produced by @easainfo.bsky.social. Read carefully and share widely. #FreePalestine
The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions.
Find out more and access the full Guidelines here:
easaonline.org/implementati...
Find out more and access the full Guidelines here:
easaonline.org/implementati...
July 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Important guidelines on how to cut ties with Israeli academic institutions produced by @easainfo.bsky.social. Read carefully and share widely. #FreePalestine
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@easainfo.bsky.social just released its implementation guidelines for the Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions voted by the membership last year. Learn the concrete actions you can take to severe ties with Israeli academic institutions @allegralab.bsky.social
The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions.
Find out more and access the full Guidelines here:
easaonline.org/implementati...
Find out more and access the full Guidelines here:
easaonline.org/implementati...
July 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
@easainfo.bsky.social just released its implementation guidelines for the Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions voted by the membership last year. Learn the concrete actions you can take to severe ties with Israeli academic institutions @allegralab.bsky.social
Readers familiar with events in Gaza will not find surprises in Didier Fassin's text, yet "there is is a cumulative power to re-reading a sustained reconstruction of our sordid present", writes Mona El-Ghobashy in her review of Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza.
Their Life Has Been Taken; Their Death is Denied - Allegra Lab
Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year assault on Gaza and
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June 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Readers familiar with events in Gaza will not find surprises in Didier Fassin's text, yet "there is is a cumulative power to re-reading a sustained reconstruction of our sordid present", writes Mona El-Ghobashy in her review of Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza.
In this reflective and deeply personal piece, Lama Ranjous considers the events of December 7th in Syria, social media, and silence.
On Silence - Allegra Lab
On the 7th of December 2024, Damascus was up all night having a special kind of party. At 3 a.m., my siblings were chatting on WhatsApp,
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June 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
In this reflective and deeply personal piece, Lama Ranjous considers the events of December 7th in Syria, social media, and silence.
Recolonize Anthropology!
@allegralab.bsky.social wrote a contribution to this spécial issue of Public Anthropologist on "Speaking out against Palestinians' Genocide". It was supposed to be a satirical piece. Not sure it is still the case now, 10 months after its initial writing...
see Public Anthro's important Special Issue "On Speaking Out: Refusing Complicity with Genocide" brill.com/view/journal...
June 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Recolonize Anthropology!