Author Archives: Lori Allen

About Lori Allen

Lori Allen is Reader in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS University of London. Her book, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2013) won the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book prize. Her articles on human rights, Palestinian politics, violence, and nationalism have appeared in Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Comparative Studies in Society and History, MERIP, and other publications. Her latest book, A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2020), offers a major reconsideration of the international political management of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by analyzing a century of Palestinian engagement with liberalism and international law.

Interview with Lori Allen

April 19, 2021 by and
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Interview with Lori Allen (SOAS) on her recent book A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2020). The interview was conducted via email by Tobias Kelly, member of the Humanity editorial collective. Tobias Kelly (TK): Can you tell us how you came to this project and how it relates to your previous work? Lori Allen (LA): I see this book as being a prequel to my first book, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine Continue reading →

Allen on Çubukçu, For the Love of Humanity

March 11, 2019 by
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This post is part of a symposium on Ayça Çubukçu’s book For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). All contributions to the symposium can be found here. For the Love of Humanity tells the story of the global anti-war movement’s efforts to put the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies on trial for crimes committed during the invasion and occu­pation of Iraq. It is an intensely creative and also a vexing book. How it troubles Continue reading →