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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

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

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/

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'

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

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