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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 2d

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 19d

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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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 15d

Say no! to HE cuts in Switzerland: Aktionstag 1. Oktober
Sign the petition: bezahlbar-studieren.ch

A flyer for the protest day of 1 October against planned cuts to HE in Switzerland. See also: https://bezahlbar-studieren.ch/

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Marine Gauthier @marinegauthier.bsky.social · 22d

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 16d

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 19d

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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 19d

🎞️ 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
✨ Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

✨ more info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-t...

Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 19d

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 19d

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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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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 19d

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 19d

🎞️ 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
✨ Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

✨ more info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-t...

Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 25d

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Sep 3

And here's a film on the same: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-s...

Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Jul 16

Important guidelines on how to cut ties with Israeli academic institutions produced by @easainfo.bsky.social. Read carefully and share widely. #FreePalestine

EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · Jul 16

@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

EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Jun 23

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Jun 19

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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Jun 10

Recolonize Anthropology!

Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · Jun 10

@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...

Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · Jun 10

see Public Anthro's important Special Issue "On Speaking Out: Refusing Complicity with Genocide" brill.com/view/journal...

Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Jun 7

Recolonize Anthropology!
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · Jun 2

In our latest book review, mónica teresa ortiz provides a comprehensive and chilling overview of Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy, edited by A.J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. Miller.

Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy - Allegra Lab

A.J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. Miller. 2024. Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · May 30

Reminder: next week we will have the pleasure of watching the short (12 mins) film Open Unit by Paul Antick. Discussion will be led by Vlad Naumescu.

June 5th. 12:30 p.m. CEST
Register:
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · May 14

"Citing creative work well—citing it with care—requires a relational approach. To name a creative piece is not enough. We must let it speak inside our work, shift our tone, fracture our arguments, delay our conclusions." #CreativeAnthropology allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...

Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology - Allegra Lab

Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison with far too much

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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · May 13

Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch Open Unit by Paul Antick. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
When? Jun 5th 2025 12:30 CEST
Where? us06web.zoom.us/.../register...
More info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-o...

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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · May 7

New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world...
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Collective Thinking, Collective Action - Allegra Lab

Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what ‘resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case this is being read in the future

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