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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.

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...
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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

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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