Ian M. Cook

Donate to Support a Young Refugee Complete His University Education, organized by Jeno Beno I would like to raise funds to support a talented person to comple… Jeno Beno needs your support for Support a Young Refugee Complete His University Education

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Ahead of #RefugeeDay check out our #OpenAccess #RefugeeStudies: bit.ly/3eL6nYk

‪Includes authors:
@heikedrotbohm.bsky.social‬
@nasimaselim.bsky.social‬
@chbrauner.bsky.social
@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
@philiphahn.bsky.social
@amandalubit.bsky.social
@ianmickcook.bsky.social
& more!

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...

It’s a brilliant film

Discussant will be Vlad Naumescu.

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...

Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan - Allegra Lab Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and existential

In his review of Mirjam Twigt's Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope Among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Abdulla Majeed highlights the role of digitality in (dis)connecting and (dis)ordering refugees' lives.

Being Fungible - They Only Want Us from the Neck Down - Allegra Lab They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl of limbs in motion, with bags flapping like the wings of

Out today: 'Being #fungible: they only want us from the neck down', a thought-provoking piece by
@jamescuffe.bsky.social and @fionamur.bsky.social
allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib...
(and good to reconnect in this space, too!)

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

Sarah Phillips' poem "In times like these" now out on Allegra
allegralaboratory.net/in-times-lik...

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...

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...

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

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.

this will be fun (I hope)

Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) | SozialMarie

OLIve (Open Learning Initiative) is an amazing education programme for displaced people in Budapest. We have been nominated for a social innovation award by Sozial Marie. www.sozialmarie.org/en/projects/...

Once you've voted you'll need to confirm your vote via an email you'll receive.

I’m glad to hear it! It’s a book meant for dipping. The conference looks great, but sadly I can’t make those dates. Hope to be able to catch up in person at another such event

Hope you like it!

It’s not made out of paper, it’s made out of crushed microphones. An audio version is on the way I hope… at least it’s promised!

Excited to watch this film tomorrow!

Mapping the diversity & transformative potential of approaches to sustainable just cities - Urban Transformations How can cities be more sustainable and just? This question has guided a process of synthesizing insights from previously funded research and innovation projects that deal with approaches tackling urba...

Super happy to to see this co-created article published.

'Mapping the diversity & transformative potential of approaches to sustainable just cities' is guided by the question, 'How can cities be more sustainable and just?'

urbantransformations.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Precarity and the Teaching of Anthropology The website for the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Looking forward to speaking at 'Precarity and the Teaching of Anthropology' Tuesday 21 May (TODAY!) at 2-4 (UK time) 3-5 (CEST). Great line up of speakers!

therai.org.uk/events/past-...

Really looking forward to speaking at The Alternative University: Seeking Shared Solutions to the Global Higher Education Crisis! An amazing line up of speakers. In person tickets at UCL are sold out (!) but it's still possible to attend online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-altern...

during the launch there will be a live choose your own adventure in which you found a journal and have to choose what form of peer review to use

We are launching a book and you are all invited:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The future of scholarly podcasting can still be whatever we want it to be From esoteric passion projects to mainstream talk shows, academic podcasting, like the medium as a whole, has grown considerably over the past decade. Drawing on interviews with all kinds of academ…

What could the future of scholarly podcasts look like? Check out this LSE Impact Blog post by @ianmickcook.bsky.social to learn more about academic podcasters' work and motivations.

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social

I had a great chat with the brilliant Lori Beckstead about my recent/old book 'Scholarly Podcasting' on the Podcast Studies Podcast!
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podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pod...

and my colleagues are at it, too! allegralaboratory.net/haile-the-co... check out this #fieldnote from #Freetown

Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa - Allegra Lab The climate crisis is upon us. Extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and fires are increasingly wreaking havoc around the

I wrote something about our current project and #climateadaptation in coastal cities, #fieldnotes to follow at a loose pace: allegralaboratory.net/climate-prec...
@allegralab.bsky.social

Universität Basel: Lecturer in Urban Studies Urban Studies at the University of Basel is rooted in disciplinary approaches of architecture, geography, anthropology, social and political theory, and history, and oriented towards global Southern a...

#UrbanStudies are hiring: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
join an engaged team and teach cool students!

Universität Basel: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Urban Studies About Urban Studies in Basel Urban Studies at the University of Basel is rooted in disciplinary approaches of architecture, geography, anthropology, social and political theory, and history, and orien...

...and a #postdoc position! jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...