Towfigh

Mehdi Yousefi

WANA

All revolutions in modern times have something in common: they surprise and overwhelm. Yet we cannot endure the moment of revolution, which we perceive as chaos that must be tamed by order of conceptual rationality. The Woman-Life-Freedom revolutionary movement is no exception. How can we read and understand it without domesticating the revolution? 

Why Do We Need a New Sociology of Revolution? The (Im)possibility of Zan-Zendegi-Azadi

Cufré

Latin America

It seems that the feminist movement was decisive in tipping the the balance in the first round of elections in Argentina. However, the electoral game is just one of the arenas of power. Feminisms - in the plural because we are diverse - are against Milei and beyond.

Feminisms against Milei — and Beyond

Nehe

Eschmann

Global

The new volume from IRGAC and kollektiv orangotango brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous and emotional dimension of their strategies

Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

Call for Applications for 6 postdoctoral fellowships at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam, with a duration of 33 months (until December 31, 2027).  

Funding starts April 1, 2025.
Application deadline is February 15, 2025.

Call for Applications: Authoritarian Neoliberalism & Reactionary Populism: The Authoritarian Appeal

Calls

Fernandes

Already in the 1970s, Brazilian sociologist and political militant Florestan Fernandes analysed the ambiguity of the concept of authoritarianism and its use in political mainstream discourse

Florestan Fernandes: Explaining Authoritarianism Beyond the Fascist Experience

Events

The objective of this report is to examine demands for reparations in connection with the cancellation of Southern African states’ sovereign debts and the decolonization of multilateral financial institutions

Debt Cancellation Is Not Enough! Repairing Economic Colonial Injustices through Radical Reform of the International Financial Architecture

Kennedy Manduna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow hosted by the Wits School of Governance (WSG) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Kennedy Manduna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung, hosted by the Wits School of Governance (WSG) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, under the mentorship of Dr Caryn Abrahams. 

For the past seven years, he has been a researcher, teaching assistant and part-time lecturer within the WSG. He completed his PhD in Political Economy and Public Policy in 2022 at the WSG, working with Prof. Gavin Cawthra, Prof. Patrick Bond and Prof. Erin McCandless. His current research focuses on the intersection of the political economy of extractivism, authoritarianism, indigeneity, economic indigenisation, Rights of the Indigenous People and uneven development. 

Research
Examining the intersectional realities of the rise of authoritarianism, resource nationalism, uneven development and the human rights concerns of the indigenous peoples: Evidence from Zimbabwe’s and South Africa’s experiences with extractive industry indigenisation.

The drivers and motivations for extracting and developing mineral resource endowments and fossil fuels, particularly in the Global South, are benefiting the mining companies and seriously affecting the lives and livelihoods of the Indigenous peoples, with governments playing enabling and active roles in these mining accumulation by dispossession processes. This accumulation logic in today’s mining capitalism results in a tale of treasuries on one pole (i.e. massive accumulation by the mining companies and local politicians) and a tale of tragedies on the other pole (i.e. massive dispossessions and dislocations of the Indigenous peoples). The competing explanation for this mining accumulation by dispossession logic is that much of what is left of these natural resource endowments is situated on Indigenous peoples’ lands. This study, by taking South Africa and Zimbabwe as case studies, is, therefore, examining the intersectional realities of the rise of authoritarianism, resource nationalism, uneven development and the human rights concerns of the indigenous peoples, with Zimbabwe’s and South Africa’s experiences with extractive industry indigenisation as case studies. Furthermore, my account on the intersection of the political economy of extractivism, indigeneity, indigenisation, Rights of the Indigenous People and uneven development, based on my PhD, is currently being turned into a monograph under a contract with Routledge Press. Other research interests include public policy, social contract, political settlements, conflict, participation, solidarity and social cohesion.

Kennedy Manduna

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Yunyun Zhou is an Associate Professor in Chinese Politics and Society at the University of Oslo.

Inés is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (Mexico) and an active companion of the struggle of native peoples in defence of their territory.

Firoozeh Farvardin is a postdoc researcher/activist working on gender/sexual (counter) strategies of authoritarian neoliberalism at IRGAC hosted by the MERGE.

Andrea Dip is a Brazilian investigative journalist, author, and researcher


Why Do We Need a New Sociology of Revolution? The (Im)possibility of Zan-Zendegi-Azadi

Feminisms against Milei — and Beyond

Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

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Florestan Fernandes: Explaining Authoritarianism Beyond the Fascist Experience

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Feminisms against Milei — and Beyond

Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

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