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Elise Hjalmarson

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Sharpening the tender point of hope ✏️ Critical migration scholar and anthropologist currently at UC Berkeley 🌎 One Shared Future 📚 Book reviews editor at @allegralab.bsky.social

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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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Centre for Minorities Research @cemirestandrews.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
📢 New article! Published in the History & Anthropology Journal, this article by Dr. Ana and Dr. Oskar Lubiński explores how everyday Cubans are coping with ongoing economic and social crisis, revealing how their survival strategies both challenge and sustain the ideals of the Cuban Revolution.
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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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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The University of Bonn invites applications for two doctoral researcher positions (65%) in the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Archival Sovereignty” (Anthropology of the Americas). Deadline: 30 May 2026. More details here: easaonline.org/jobs-calls/t...
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Two doctoral students in the project “Archival Sovereignty: Indigenous Digital Media, Language Revival and Land Defense in the Andes”
The DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Archival Sovereignty: Indigenous Digital Media, Language Revival and Land Defense in the Andes”, led by Dr. Walther Maradiegue (Department of Anthropology…
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Andrew Flachs @drflachsophone.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Really happy to see Feeding the World as if People Mattered included in this great collection of books for review on solidarity, hope, and care from @allegralab.bsky.social - I want to read all of these! allegralaboratory.net/call-for-rev...
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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 · 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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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Brilliant online talk alert! Join us for AnthroMob's next Moving Mobility Online (MoMO) lecture to hear Maya J. Berry speak about her research among rumberos in post-Fidel Cuba next Friday, March 5th at 4pm CET. More info and registration below @easainfo.bsky.social easaonline.org/event/moving...
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Moving Stone Into Place: Economic Reform, Enclosure & Exodus in Post-Fidel Cuba
Dr. Maya Berry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The AnthroMob network is delighted to announce the 11th lecture in our Moving Mobilities Online (MoMO) series, on March 5th, 2026 at 4:00pm ...
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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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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Traveling to Cuba today and carrying more than usual, thanks to the incredible show of solidarity in response to my call for support with bringing urgent essential goods to the island. More here: www.elisehjalmarson/solidarity-w...
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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A thoughtful welcome for all of us arriving in Matera for SIAC ✊🌹 the writing is on the wall… Convegno di la Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale
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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 · 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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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It's Tuesday, and this week has already been a blur: yesterday, I travelled from the orchards above Lausanne to Brussels, and tomorrow, Sonja Ruud and I are off to The Hague to co-convene @easainfo.bsky.social's 2025 AnthroMob workshop! It's hybrid and all the details are on our event website here.
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EASA AnthroMob Network
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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Calling anthropologists working at the intersection of mobilities, emotions, affect, and the body! Join us online or in person Sept 11-12 in The Hague for AnthroMob's biannual workshop. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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AnthroMob 2025 Workshop Registration
Thank you for registering to attend the 2025 AnthroMob Workshop, "Feelings on the Move: (Im)mobilities, Embodiment and Emotions," in The Hague from 11-12 September. The workshop is organized by the EA...
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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A poignant review of Didier Fassin's damning new book was published this morning on @allegralab.bsky.social by Mona El-Ghobashy @versobooks.bsky.social
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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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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is an appointment to watch like hawks. The head of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration will decide what kinds of heat protections labor merits in regions with skyrocketing temperatures, and summer is fast approaching...
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Workers Can Say Goodbye to Heat Protections Under Trump
For years, David Keeling oversaw health and safety operations at companies where workers fell ill and died in extreme heat. If confirmed as the head of OSHA, he could help their campaign to block fede...
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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In the words of Rosa Luxemburg: "To be a human being means to joyfully toss your entire life 'on the giant scales of fate' if it must be so, and at the same time to rejoice in the brightness of every day and the beauty of every cloud..."
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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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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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MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
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CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing
With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.
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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🚨 Call for papers 🚨 "Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy: Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America" Central European University, 22-23/9/2025 Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...
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Call for Papers “Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy: Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America” | CEU Democracy Institute
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Elise Hjalmarson @elihjal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Another excellent review from @allegralab.bsky.social's series on Mobilities and Migration by Abdulla Majeed at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies!
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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
In press today! In "Lessons from Tahrir for Activists and their Allies", Alice Wilson thoughtfully engages with Rusha Latif’s book Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution in the context of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad's fall from power.
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Lessons from Tahrir for activists and their allies - Allegra Lab
Reflections on Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press, 2022). After more than 13 years of
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