Elise Hjalmarson

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

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

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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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.

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!

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...

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...

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..."

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

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

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

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!
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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.

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

🚨 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

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Another excellent review from @allegralab.bsky.social's series on Mobilities and Migration by Abdulla Majeed at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies!

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

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.