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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

"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."

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

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

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...

For those who want joy... deadline approaching with intent
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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

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

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

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

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.

back this innovative & artistic knowledge co-production project between Switzerland and Cameroon: wemakeit.com/projects/res...

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

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

Big win for #anthropology and #AfricanStudies, too, tonight!
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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

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

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#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...

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

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.
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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

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

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

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.

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

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...

A flyer for the protest day of 1 October against planned cuts to HE in Switzerland. See also: https://bezahlbar-studieren.ch/

Say no! to HE cuts in Switzerland: Aktionstag 1. Oktober
Sign the petition: bezahlbar-studieren.ch

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

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.
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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

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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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

A powerful personal essay and call by Luisa T. Schneider
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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

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!
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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

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...

🎞️ 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...

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

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.

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

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

And here's a film on the same: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-s...

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

Thursday! Lunchtime! Filmtime! Anthrokino!
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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.