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

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.

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...

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

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. allegralaboratory.net/colonial-bur...

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

A powerful personal essay and call by Luisa T. Schneider allegralaboratory.net/holding-spac...

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! allegralaboratory.net/breaking-for...

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...

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.

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...

Thursday! Lunchtime! Filmtime! Anthrokino! allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-s...

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

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.

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! brill.com/view/journal...

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: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"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...

New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world... allegralaboratory.net/collective-t...

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.

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. allegralaboratory.net/category/the...

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! allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ...

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...

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

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

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 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.

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! allegralaboratory.net/lessons-from...

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.

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'. allegralaboratory.net/wild-computi...

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. allegralaboratory.net/of-home-and-...

Want to review a book on #settlercolonialism? Check out this list here and get in touch! allegralaboratory.net/call-for-rev...

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!

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/

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...

"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 allegralaboratory.net/waiting-for-...

What's up with a traffic roundabout that plays music, resulting in an #absurdist mashup of techno beats and car noises? Asmus Rungby #absurdity allegralaboratory.net/against-maki...

"In the soundscape of #triage interactions, the feeling of the #absurd – as the presence of conflicting goals within care – can emerge any time amid the cacophony of #sounds competing for attention". #anthropology @mrkblues allegralaboratory.net/the-sound-of...

"Confronted with authoritarian politics, comedians can become truth-tellers" @StaaleWig #absurdity #anthropology allegralaboratory.net/the-folly-of...

"The women present at the event were vocal about the #absurdity of Dibaba’s irrelevant, unwanted or impractical advice." Sarah Howard on 'Teaching #Ethiopian Women to Breastfeed' #anthropology allegralaboratory.net/great-job-mo...

"workers’ engagement in the very practices they called absurd testified to multiple layers of critique" Today, Charline Kopf on 'Cleaning Days' in #Senegal #absurdity #anthropology allegralaboratory.net/of-rails-and...

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