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Check out Sandhya Fuchs' reflections on trauma & ethnographic vulnerability and the strange role of humor and laughter in fieldwork at Allegra Lab. This contribution is the 1st of our new with a companion piece coming out on Weds & a podcast conversation with the 2 authors on Friday. Watch this space!

Strange Bedfellows: On Trauma and Ethnographic Vulnerability - Allegra I never expected that laughter would be part of the solution. I had set out on fieldwork with rather vague notions about the importance of sensitivity and

Vous vous demandez ce que le PIR a fait au cours de ces 6 derniers mois? Visitez la plateforme numérique de notre projet 'Réparation: réparer l'humain et repenser le monde' et découvrez le parcours d'éveil à la conscience citoyenne parcouru par les élèves du CEC André-Chavanne que nous avons accompagnés!

Réparation – Réparer l'humain, repenser le monde View on YouTube PPerformance Performance “Réparation, réparer l’humain et repenser le monde” juin 1, 2021 Après quatre mois d’ateliers de parole, d’écriture, de vidéo et de théâtre, nous avons pris la parole sur…

‎Programme B : Qu’avons-nous fait de la recherche ? | Épisode 1 sur Apple Podcasts ‎Afficher Programme B, ép Qu’avons-nous fait de la recherche ? | Épisode 1 - 28 mars 2021

Anthropology for Radical Optimism - Allegra   At Allegra, we strive to find alternative modes of expression, new ways of working, collaborating, knowing and inquiring. Ultimately, we seek

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Ela Drążkiewicz: Blinded by the Light: International Precariat in Academia I was reluctant to contribute to this blog series. The recently published EASA report (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) draws attention to precarious labour in anthropology. However, in the last decade we seem to have been talking about precarity in academia non-stop. There is even a nickname for t...

Journal papers, grants, jobs ... as rejections pile up, it's not enough to tell academics to 'suck it up' The rejection culture of academia is damaging. Rejections are inevitable, but there are better ways of managing the process that don't leave individuals to bear the whole burden of coping.

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Knowledge is part of the rip-off economy | Letters Letters: Jonathan Spencer highlights how academic publishers profit, and Margaret Beetham criticises the ‘taxes on knowledge’