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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our first book review of the autumn season is online! @sabarigirisanm.bsky.social reviews Patgiri and Lalli's new edited volume on the world of food in India, and its various material and discursive realms. allegralaboratory.net/food-culture...
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Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives - Allegra Lab
Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli. 2026. Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives. London:
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What happens when mobility generates dependence and exacerbates already unequal relationships of power? Fulya Pinar and Tania Hernandez Moreno examine the social terrain of migrant farmworkers' im/mobility practices in Vermont in this illustrated essay grounded in recent fieldwork.
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Mobility as Dependence: Politics of Getting Around for Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont - Allegra Lab
During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, as doctors explained
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Eva Vandenberghe engages with Mohammed El-Kurd's Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal in a book review published this morning, suggesting it is past time we engage with Palestinian struggles on their own terms @haymarketbooks.org
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Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal - Allegra Lab
Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. "To refuse that which has been refused to you," Fred Moten
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our book reviews editor, @elihjal.bsky.social, reads a lot of book reviews. In this piece, she reflects on what distinguishes Allegra's approach from more conventional ones: creatively, kindly, and care-fully thinking together with book authors to create non-simultaneous conversations.
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Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews - Allegra Lab
Midway through a recent coffee with a brilliant colleague, our conversation turned, as they so often do, to the various writing projects under which the
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There's a fresh call for reviewers up on Allegra! Follow the link to browse a beautifully curated list of books related to this year's theme of Solidarities, Hope and Care. Among other questions, it asks: what values, visions, or actions will assure our collective survival through these times?
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Call for Reviewers: Solidarities, Hope and Care - Allegra Lab
In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Do not miss our second webinar on critique today 27/02 at 2PM CET with Amira Mittermaier (Tononto Univ) and Sylvain Piron (EHESS). Register to receive the link! allegralaboratory.net/what-is-crit...
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What is Critique? EASA LAWNET - Allegra webinar series - Allegra Lab
From February 13 to 29 May 2026 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We are proud to publish the amazing new documentary podcast series: 'Backway to Europe: Talking Borders and Migration with Gambians on the Move'. allegralaboratory.net/category/the...
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Go to Palestine not because Palestinians are either helpless or need to be saved—go because the rest of the world has abandoned them for far too long."
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Go to Palestine—And Go with All Your Heart - Allegra Lab
Settler colonial terror in a question Amidst arranging a backpack with her family during a short trip away, an inquisitive if not precocious little
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In his review of Yuliya Grinberg's book published today, Feras Alejandro calls our attention to the inner workings, ambiguities, and labor practices of the tech spaces and communities responsible for the promotion of purportedly objective tools to quantify the self @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections - Allegra Lab
Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
For those who want joy... deadline approaching with intent easaonline.org/event/ethnog...
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Ethnographies of Joy: A Definitionless Dictionary in the Shadow of Impending Global Fascism
Invitation to join a series of (virtual and in-person) gatherings Exhausted by academic writing that mistakes joyless seriousness for rigour? Suffocated by the writing voice you’ve somehow adopted aga...
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Far from a "neutral backstage", architecture is "inseparable from power relations, colonial domination, postcolonial negotiation and the resistance of subaltern groups and objects", writes Zoya Masoud in her review of Egbers, Kamleithner, Sezer and Skedzuhn-Safir's book. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories - Allegra Lab
Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir. 2024. Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Continuing our book review series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire, Nicolai Hilton engages with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy's compelling compilation of articles in The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe @versobooks.bsky.social
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The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe - Allegra Lab
Gideon Levy. 2024. The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. New York: Verso. In The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe, Gideon Levy, a
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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
back this innovative & artistic knowledge co-production project between Switzerland and Cameroon: wemakeit.com/projects/res...
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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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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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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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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Big win for #anthropology and #AfricanStudies, too, tonight! #NYC
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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
Poster for Faduma Abukar Mursal's talk 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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#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...
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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
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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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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
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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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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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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 · 22/09/2025
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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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 · 26/09/2025
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 · 19/09/2025
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...
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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 · 25/09/2025
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
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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 · 22/09/2025
A powerful personal essay and call by Luisa T. Schneider allegralaboratory.net/holding-spac...
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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 · 22/09/2025
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...
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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 · 22/09/2025
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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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 · 22/09/2025
🎞️ 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...
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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.
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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 · 09/09/2025
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
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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 · 03/09/2025
And here's a film on the same: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-s...
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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 · 03/09/2025
Thursday! Lunchtime! Filmtime! Anthrokino! allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-s...
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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 · 16/07/2025
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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Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
@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
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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.
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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 · 19/06/2025
In this reflective and deeply personal piece, Lama Ranjous considers the events of December 7th in Syria, social media, and silence.
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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 · 10/06/2025
Recolonize Anthropology!
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Recolonize Anthropology! brill.com/view/journal...
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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.
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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 · 30/05/2025
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: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"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...
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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 · 13/05/2025
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 · 07/05/2025
New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world... allegralaboratory.net/collective-t...
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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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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Clare Maxwell engages with @areejsabbaghkhoury.bsky.social's compelling new book Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba in this timely review 🇵🇸 @stanfordpress.bsky.social as part of our series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire!
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Colonizing Palestine: The zionist left and the making of the palestinian nakba - Allegra Lab
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury. 2024. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Redwood City: Stanford University Press.
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Allegra cofounder and editor @juliebillaud.bsky.social speaks with @danjgraham.bsky.social at the Geneva Graduate Institute on the need to boldly defend academic freedom in contexts of intensifying authoritarianism and censorship.
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social
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Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney
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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This thread from @allegralab.bsky.social builds on a panel at the EASA biannual conference in July 2024, which was entitled ‘Doing and Undoing Regulation’. The thread examines regulation as a contested sociocultural practice, generative of social worlds. allegralaboratory.net/category/the...
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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Thrilled to see @andreaboccardi.bsky.social's insightful review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires in press at @allegralab.bsky.social, the first from our latest book review series! allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ...
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Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
NEW thread exploring regulation as a contested sociocultural practice, generative of social worlds. The thread examines the epistemologies and ethics forged by regulation and trajectories of (un)doing regulation in a changing world. allegralaboratory.net/category/the...
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Regulation (Un)Done Archives - Allegra Lab
This thread builds on a panel at the EASA biannual conference in July 2024, which was entitled ‘Doing and Undoing Regulation’. We invited participants to explore regulation as a contested sociocultura...
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sarah Phillips' poem "In times like these" now out on Allegra allegralaboratory.net/in-times-lik...
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In times like these - Allegra Lab
Last year, I submitted an abstract for a conference about the future of authoritarianism with the title ‘knowledge production and transparency in a time
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