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

@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

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

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.

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,

In this reflective and deeply personal piece, Lama Ranjous considers the events of December 7th in Syria, social media, and silence.

Recolonize Anthropology!

Recolonize Anthropology!
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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.

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.

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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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

"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...

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...

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!

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.

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

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.
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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

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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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.
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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

Sarah Phillips' poem "In times like these" now out on Allegra
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Disgraceful. All the more glad that Francesca Albanese will speak at Utrecht University on Friday (www.uu.nl/en/events/pu...). Says a lot that Germany continues to beat the Netherlands in academic repression even though NL are the ones with the far right government in power

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
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(and good to reconnect in this space, too!)

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.

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

Woke up to this amazing review of my book “Tahrir’s Youth,” by the brilliant revolutionary studies scholar Alice Wilson, published today in @allegralab.bsky.social! So honored!

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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

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.

Wild Computing: a view from anthropology  - Allegra Lab Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more powerful

The commercial unfolding of AI has sparked wild computational narratives that seem to be out of control in their blatant appropriation and reduction of concepts such as “intelligence” or “civilization”. Read @anibalarregui.bsky.social
on 'wild computing'.
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Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia - Allegra Lab “Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian flight descended over a pale Baghdad

On @allegralab.bsky.social, an interesting article by Nabil Salih who offers reflections on Iraqi art and imperial nostalgia with a selection of paintings by my dear friend Mohammed Abdul-Wasi.
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Call for reviewers: Books on settler colonialism, borders and empire - Allegra Lab As we wrap up our series on Mobilities and Migration, we are excited to launch our new book review series on settler colonialism, borders and empire!

Want to review a book on #settlercolonialism? Check out this list here and get in touch!
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Wrapped up our Autumn editorial meeting — and our updated website is now live! With new ways to search and discover all of our content from the past... 11 years: allegralaboratory.net/all-our-cont... have a look, sign up for the newsletter, give us feedback, submit your pieces!

ANTHROKINO - Allegra Lab Film Screening & Discussion with Director Nafis Fathollahzadeh Khabur 30'28 November, 13:30 CET Nafis Fathollahzadeh AnthroKino presents the screening

Come watch the 30 minute film Khabur with us on 28 November, 13:30 CET. Afterwards there'll be a discussion with director Nafis Fathollahzadeh

Registration details at the link

allegralaboratory.net/allegra-kino/

Encyclopedia of maladies in academic anthropology: counter-diagnosis for a sick working environment - Allegra Lab What you are about to read is not fiction, but neither is it fact. It is a catalogue of illnesses that do not exist, at least not in the evidence-based

My Madsen "uses the positive traits of diagnosis […] to point at and describe some of the toxic traits anthropologists may develop in academia" — the #encyclopedia of maladies in academic #anthropology is here! allegralaboratory.net/encyclopedia...

Waiting for ghosts - Allegra Lab I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is October, just past the turn from summer to winter, and

"if the existence of #ghosts is bound up with the feeling of fear, how can you understand the role spirits play in Ladakhi society without experiencing those feelings?"
Callum Pearce #absurdity
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