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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.
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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
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Midway through a recent coffee with a brilliant colleague, our conversation turned, as they so often do, to the various writing projects under which the
Invitation to join a series of (virtual and in-person) gatherings Exhausted by academic writing that mistakes joyless seriousness for rigour? Suffocated by the writing voice you’ve somehow adopted aga...
Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University
A refuge for humanity? Slow-paced and transdisciplinary research in Switzerland and Cameroon: Enable a transmedia publication fuelled by a 20 years friend- and researchpartnership.
Far from a "neutral backstage", architecture is "inseparable from power relations, colonial domination, postcolonial negotiation and the resistance of subaltern groups and objects", writes Zoya Masoud in her review of Egbers, Kamleithner, Sezer and Skedzuhn-Safir's book. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir. 2024. Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting
Continuing our book review series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire, Nicolai Hilton engages with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy's compelling compilation of articles in The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe @versobooks.bsky.social
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Gideon Levy. 2024. The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. New York: Verso. In The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe, Gideon Levy, a
We are proud to publish the amazing new documentary podcast series: 'Backway to Europe: Talking Borders and Migration with Gambians on the Move'.
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Do not miss our second webinar on critique today 27/02 at 2PM CET with Amira Mittermaier (Tononto Univ) and Sylvain Piron (EHESS). Register to receive the link! allegralaboratory.net/what-is-crit...
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?
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"Go to Palestine not because Palestinians are either helpless or need to be saved—go because the rest of the world has abandoned them for far too long."
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From February 13 to 29 May 2026 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question
In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen
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Settler colonial terror in a question Amidst arranging a backpack with her family during a short trip away, an inquisitive if not precocious little
