📢 New article! Published in the History & Anthropology Journal, this article by Dr. Ana and Dr. Oskar Lubiński explores how everyday Cubans are coping with ongoing economic and social crisis, revealing how their survival strategies both challenge and sustain the ideals of the Cuban Revolution.

Our book reviews editor, @elihjal.bsky.social, reads a lot of book reviews. In this piece, she reflects on what distinguishes Allegra's approach from more conventional ones: creatively, kindly, and care-fully thinking together with book authors to create non-simultaneous conversations.

The University of Bonn invites applications for two doctoral researcher positions (65%) in the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Archival Sovereignty” (Anthropology of the Americas). Deadline: 30 May 2026. More details here: easaonline.org/jobs-calls/t...

Really happy to see Feeding the World as if People Mattered included in this great collection of books for review on solidarity, hope, and care from @allegralab.bsky.social - I want to read all of these! allegralaboratory.net/call-for-rev...

There's a fresh call for reviewers up on Allegra! Follow the link to browse a beautifully curated list of books related to this year's theme of Solidarities, Hope and Care. Among other questions, it asks: what values, visions, or actions will assure our collective survival through these times?

Brilliant online talk alert! Join us for AnthroMob's next Moving Mobility Online (MoMO) lecture to hear Maya J. Berry speak about her research among rumberos in post-Fidel Cuba next Friday, March 5th at 4pm CET. More info and registration below @easainfo.bsky.social easaonline.org/event/moving...

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

For those who want joy... deadline approaching with intent easaonline.org/event/ethnog...

Traveling to Cuba today and carrying more than usual, thanks to the incredible show of solidarity in response to my call for support with bringing urgent essential goods to the island. More here: www.elisehjalmarson/solidarity-w...

A thoughtful welcome for all of us arriving in Matera for SIAC ✊🌹 the writing is on the wall… Convegno di la Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale

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

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

It's Tuesday, and this week has already been a blur: yesterday, I travelled from the orchards above Lausanne to Brussels, and tomorrow, Sonja Ruud and I are off to The Hague to co-convene @easainfo.bsky.social's 2025 AnthroMob workshop! It's hybrid and all the details are on our event website here.

Calling anthropologists working at the intersection of mobilities, emotions, affect, and the body! Join us online or in person Sept 11-12 in The Hague for AnthroMob's biannual workshop. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A poignant review of Didier Fassin's damning new book was published this morning on @allegralab.bsky.social by Mona El-Ghobashy @versobooks.bsky.social

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!

This is an appointment to watch like hawks. The head of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration will decide what kinds of heat protections labor merits in regions with skyrocketing temperatures, and summer is fast approaching...

In the words of Rosa Luxemburg: "To be a human being means to joyfully toss your entire life 'on the giant scales of fate' if it must be so, and at the same time to rejoice in the brightness of every day and the beauty of every cloud..."

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

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 CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 "Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy: Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America" Central European University, 22-23/9/2025 Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...

Another excellent review from @allegralab.bsky.social's series on Mobilities and Migration by Abdulla Majeed at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies!

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.