Advertise with Googlier.com Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:58:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/ 32 32 Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice https://allegralaboratory.net/constellations-of-care/ https://allegralaboratory.net/constellations-of-care/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:57:39 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=49042 Cindy Barukh Milstein. 2024. Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice. London: Pluto Press. Constellations of Care is an anthology of answers […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/constellations-of-care/feed/ 0 What We Talk About When We Talk About Academic Freedom: A View from the United States https://allegralaboratory.net/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-academic-freedom-a-view-from-the-united-states/ https://allegralaboratory.net/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-academic-freedom-a-view-from-the-united-states/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:26:20 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48960 The purpose of this essay is to open a conversation with scholars from around the world on the topic of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-academic-freedom-a-view-from-the-united-states/feed/ 0 Academic Freedom in Norway: A Reasonably Undramatic View https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-freedom-in-norway-a-reasonably-undramatic-view/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-freedom-in-norway-a-reasonably-undramatic-view/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:25:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48976 Academic freedom is, along with democratic freedoms, in dramatic decline worldwide.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-freedom-in-norway-a-reasonably-undramatic-view/feed/ 0 Academic Un/freedom under Capitalist Capture https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-un-freedom-under-capitalist-capture/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-un-freedom-under-capitalist-capture/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:25:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=49010 We are living through an increasingly terrifying global emergency. For many of our research participants, and for some of our […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-un-freedom-under-capitalist-capture/feed/ 0 Freedom to Oppress: “Free Speech” and Oppression by Reversal in European Academia https://allegralaboratory.net/freedom-to-oppress-free-speech-and-oppression-by-reversal-in-european-academia/ https://allegralaboratory.net/freedom-to-oppress-free-speech-and-oppression-by-reversal-in-european-academia/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:25:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=49000 Calls and legal tools to ensure “freedom of speech” in universities proliferate across European countries. As I argued elsewhere in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/freedom-to-oppress-free-speech-and-oppression-by-reversal-in-european-academia/feed/ 0 Academic Constraints Under Occupation: A Personal Account https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-constraints-under-occupation-a-personal-account/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-constraints-under-occupation-a-personal-account/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:01:35 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48997 I am a Palestinian who carried out their PhD in Europe. I have a Palestinian passport, and hence have more […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-constraints-under-occupation-a-personal-account/feed/ 0 Memory, Morality, and the Boundaries of Academic Freedom in Germany https://allegralaboratory.net/memory-morality-and-the-boundaries-of-academic-freedom-in-germany/ https://allegralaboratory.net/memory-morality-and-the-boundaries-of-academic-freedom-in-germany/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:01:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48994 Academic freedom in Germany is marked by a growing paradox.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/memory-morality-and-the-boundaries-of-academic-freedom-in-germany/feed/ 0 Academic Freedom under Authoritarian Consolidation: A View from Georgia https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-freedom-under-authoritarian-consolidation-a-view-from-georgia/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-freedom-under-authoritarian-consolidation-a-view-from-georgia/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:01:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48991 It has been almost two years since Georgia’s protests began on November 28, 2024.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/academic-freedom-under-authoritarian-consolidation-a-view-from-georgia/feed/ 0 Academics as a Threat in Milei’s Argentina: A “Libertarian” Government Opposed to Academic Freedom https://allegralaboratory.net/academics-as-a-threat-in-mileis-argentina-a-libertarian-government-opposed-to-academic-freedom/ https://allegralaboratory.net/academics-as-a-threat-in-mileis-argentina-a-libertarian-government-opposed-to-academic-freedom/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:46 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48988 During an interview broadcast in early August 2026, Argentine President Javier Milei again explicitly attacked the university and scientific community, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/academics-as-a-threat-in-mileis-argentina-a-libertarian-government-opposed-to-academic-freedom/feed/ 0 The Myth of Progressive Academia in Israel https://allegralaboratory.net/the-myth-of-progressive-academia-in-israel/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-myth-of-progressive-academia-in-israel/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:30 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48982 There is a persistent myth that too often obstructs discussion about how to hold Israeli academic institutions accountable for their complicity in genocide. That myth is that Israeli academia is a center of progressiveness.

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