Allegra Lab · From Despair To Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism   Ian M. Cook: Yesterday I took a break from my morning

doom scrolling through anger, pain, fear, and aggression to check my H-Index. [...]

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I have been relying on the social media accounts of Gazan journalists, photographers, and others (some so young they could be my students)

who are risking their lives every day to show the world what genocide looks like in real time. [...]

Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over the desk, maps, reports, designs of buildings that had been, or soon would be, completed.

Solomon Kebedde is a well-known academic and respected architect, and a leading voice in the debate on the need to rethink urban planning and architecture practice [...]

An edited talk delivered at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences on  Nov 7th 2023  I spend a great deal of time researching and teaching about Palestinians

and Israeli Jews who resist Israeli colonialism by refusing its separatism and racial hierarchies. [...]

‘Is it ethical to write something ‘interesting’ about a massacre as the massacre is unfolding?’ I keep asking myself. ‘Is this not a form of exploiting the dead to

produce literature out of the decaying bodies?’. I start thinking of Levi-Strauss’ analysis of the trickster and the carrion-eater as mediators between life and [...]

7 DÉCEMBRE Musée de la Corse Salle de convivialité 9h | Accueil par Dominique Federici, président de l’Université de Corse Graziella Luisi, directrice de la Fondation

de l’Université de Corse [...]