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> DEAR ALL,
>
> This new site has been just launched!
> Come visit us, 'like' us in Facebook if you like us also in reality,
> and keep us in mind for all your ideas great and grand - nothing is
> (so we think) too experimental for us!
> Yours humble moderators,
> Miia Halme-Tuomisaari & Julie Billaud
>
>
> Allegra: a Virtual Laboratory of Legal Anthropology
> allegralaboratory.net
>
>
> ABOUT
> This website is a virtual laboratory of legal anthropology (and
> stuff). The site pushes the boundaries of scholarly representations
> of the law in the broadest sense. In addition to viewing the law
> as a site of normative engagement, we examine its knowledge
> pratices, authority claims, notions of subjectivity and agency.
> Jointly these features summarise central elements of the
> contemporary era as a whole.
> We address the methods and aesthetics of scholarly work, and are
> particulaly interested in and troubled by the various ongoing
> challenges plaguing genuine academic scholarship. We want to
> showcase twisted and bizarre samples of these features, and inspire
> more rigorous analytical discussions over their meaning.
> Everything about this site is experimental. We welcome all texts,
> suggestions, and proposals for collaboration that push us to rethink
> the borders of conventional academic boxes. We encourage exchanges
> across disciplines and between scholars and artists. In addition to
> texts and pictures we interact with videos and live-streams.
> We claim no publishing rights over material published on this site,
> and welcome content created for other contexts. Our primary aim is
> to facilitate the circulation of academic thought by increasingly
> connecting it to the aesthetics and flows of ongoing societal
> debates. This, we claim, offers scholarship renewed positions of
> relevance.
> The section STUFF features fieldnotes, interviews, petitions,
> general observations and (slow) food for thought. PUBLICATIONS
> features reviews, classic texts and special issues. EVENTS enlists
> upcoming conferences and seminars, calls for papers, fellowships.
> SPACES offers links to relevant academic blogs, journals and
> networks. PEOPLE links you to scholars working in the field of legal
> anthropology.
> We look forward to your contributions food for thought to be
> digested slowly
.
>
>
> ACADEMIC SLOW FOOD MANIFESTO
>
> More more more!
> This constant pressure to write more.
> More of what?
> Slogans, catch phrases?
> Analysis for tid-bit quotations?
> The same-old, same-old?
>
> They want to stuff our brain
> with indicators,
> guidelines,
> readily-chewed soundbites
> impact and
> expected outcomes.
>
> That is not stuff of real academics!
> That is the stuff of auditing
> of successful annual reporting
> Signs of yielding to extra-academic pressures.
>
> We reclaim the space for the real pursuit
> of unknown horizons
> Of revery, philosophising
> and mind-wondering
> We want words, imagination, poetry!
> Things impossible to report,
> but only thus with real meaning.
>
> But like slow food
> REAL research simply takes time
> to mature
> It needs tender love and caring
> A space to freely grow
>
> Less but more
> of something
> immeasurable
> and only thus of true importance.
>
>
>
> Moderators:
> Stuff editor: Julie Billaud. Contact: [log in to unmask]
> Review editor: Miia Halme-Tuomisaari. Contact: [log in to unmask]
>
> Contributors:
> Antonio De Lauri
> Heath Cabot
> Julie Castro
> Alejandro Castillejo-Cuellar
> Tobias Kelly
> Amy Levine
> Reetta Toivanen
> Kaius Tuori
> Gijs Kruijtzer
> Gavin Weston
> Maria Sapignoli
> Paolo Sartori
> Aman Mojadidi
> Sonal Makhija
> Shakira Bedoya Sanchez
>
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