Allegra Lab

Allegra Lab

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Allegra Lab

Allegra Lab is a collective of academics and an online experiment founded in 2013. Allegra Lab aims to enliven the “dead space” between standard academic publication and fast moving public debates. It addresses sociopolitical issues informed by the beauty of ethnography and the critical potential of anthropology.

11/23/2023

From Despair To Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism

An audio essay by Ian M. Cook with anthropologists who have gone beyond critique for critique's sake. Anthropologists who have creatively intervened in the world in ways that blur the scholar/activist categories and centre anthropology's tentative, non-absolutist mode of knowledge creation. The essay argues that the attempts at political practice by anthropologists, combined with the work of those who critique the international organisations and social movements that actively seek to intervene in the world, so that their their interventions might be more effective in achieving social justice, can help create and structure the conditions for critical radical optimism to emerge. Transcript: https://allegralaboratory.net/from-despair-to-where-anthropology-critique-political-practice-and-the-case-for-radical-optimism/ Featuring (in order of a-hear-ance) Agathe Mora Julie Billaud Jane Cowan Noah Walker-Crawford Matthew C. Canfield Lieselotte Viaene Rafael Carrano Lelis Samuel Shapiro Pedro Silva Rocha Lima

32 min
07/07/2023

Building Bodies For Thought

Allegra Editor Ian podcasts together with Thread guest editors Aja Smith & Anne Line Dalsgård as they explore 'Building Bodies For Thought' a thread in which theorising and thinking is undertaken by bodies that are more receptive, more sentient, more response-able. https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/building-bodies-for-thought/ In the podcast you will hear hundreds written and read in the following order by: Ida Appel Vardinghus-Nielsen Vanessa Graf Fine Brendtner Katrine Frank Jørgensen Clara Fuglsbjerg Ebberup Mark Tatlow Joseph Dumit Mona Nicolaysen Stine Simonsen Puri Ida Sofie Matzen Mona Nicolaysen

29 min
07/07/2023

Encountering Precarities

Allegra Editor Ian sits down with Thread guest editors Viola Castellano & Olivia Casagrande to discuss 'Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia.' The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and their interlocutors in and beyond the field. https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precarities-ethnography-spurious-solidarity-and-neoliberal-academia/

28 min
07/30/2021

ResonanceCast 2: Incitement And Coups

ResonanceCast is a new multimodal series that seeks to tease out timely shared concerns. After their articles have been published on Allegra Lab, we invite two authors to come together to discuss each other’s texts and the wider-ranging issues both speak to. Their conversation is moderated by someone from the Allegra Lab editorial collective. We hope to continue this emergent, generative and dialectic format into the future! This episode features Jastinder Kaur and Daniel White talking about their articles 'Towards an Anthropology of Coups' and 'Incitement! Incremental Theory for an Imminent Fascism'

39 min
07/09/2021

ResonanceCast #1 Vulnerability

Welcome to ResonanceCast from Allegra Lab (https://allegralaboratory.net). In this podcast series we discuss articles publish by Allegra that resonate with one another. We invite the authors to read each other’s papers and then come together to talk with someone from the Allegra Lab editorial collective. This episode features Pascale Schild and Sandhya Fuchs talking about their articles 'Reciprocal vulnerability in the face of patriarchal violence' and 'Strange Bedfellows: On Trauma and Ethnographic Vulnerability' https://allegralaboratory.net Music by Acoustic Doodles https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNc87wStXegiakg95Dgetkw

37 min
12/10/2020

A Possible Anthropology with Anand Pandian

Anand Pandian speaks to Allegra editor Ian M. Cook about his latest book A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke, 2019). Special guests Penelope Papailias and Laura Kunreuther send in their questions, generated from an 'experimental humanities' reading group they were both part of this last summer. Music credit: The Barren Sea Audio co-editing: Laura Isabel de los Reyes Walker-Beaven Anand Pandian's university home page: https://anthropology.jhu.edu/directory/anand-pandian/ A Possible Anthropology: https://www.dukeupress.edu/a-possible-anthropology Listen to Anand speak to Ian about Reel World here: https://allegralaboratory.net/podcast-interview-round-up-may-august-new-books-in-anthropology/ Penelope Papailias: http://ha.uth.gr/index.php?page=faculty.display&a=papailia Laura Kunreuther: https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=504

1h 4m
07/01/2020

The Corona Diaries 35: Goodbyes

How do we socially and culturally adapt to isolation? How do we experience empty spaces? Are new forms of solidarity emerging? How does it feel to have to work in hospitals, assembly lines or shops when others stay at home? What new questions are we asking ourselves about our parenting and being a child? What new forms of exploitation emerge from the increased digitalisation of work? What new spaces of freedom have emerged? How can we understand social media’s role in the pandemic? How are our modes of communication changing in general? What role does humour play in our new shared experience of an absurd situation without precedent? Seven willing diarists offered us a short audio diary once a week throughout the month of April, reflecting, describing, venting - all is permissible, all has to be expected. In this final episode, they offer us their final reflections and bid goodbye to those who followed their journeys. Mohira: 00:00:17 Panagiota: 00:02:48 Susanne: 00:04:41 Justin: 00:08:03 Tamara: 00:11:37 Priyanka: 00:16:44 Arun: 00:19:09

22 min
04/28/2020

The Corona Diaries 34: April 27 Aditya In Bengaluru

The Corona Diaries 34: April 27 Aditya In Bengaluru allegralaboratory.net/the-corona-diaries/ How do we socially and culturally adapt to isolation? How do we experience empty spaces? Are new forms of solidarity emerging? How does it feel to have to work in hospitals, assembly lines or shops when others stay at home? What new questions are we asking ourselves about our parenting and being a child? What new forms of exploitation emerge from the increased digitalisation of work? What new spaces of freedom have emerged? How can we understand social media’s role in the pandemic? How are our modes of communication changing in general? What role does humour play in our new shared experience of an absurd situation without precedent? Seven willing diarists offer us a short audio diary once a week throughout the month of April, reflecting, describing, venting - all is permissible, all has to be expected.

10 min

Allegra Lab is a collective of academics and an online experiment founded in 2013. Allegra Lab aims to enliven the “dead space” between standard academic publication and fast moving public debates. It addresses sociopolitical issues informed by the beauty of ethnography and the critical potential of anthropology.

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Allegra Lab
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2020 - 2023
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40
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