IRGAC

Europe

Brought with the support of IRGAC, This Authoritarian Life is a podcast that explores everyday human stories in order to better understand modern-day authoritarian politics

New Podcast: This Authoritarian Life

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

WANA

As scholars and activists from the Global South, we appeal to colleagues around the world and the global community to pay attention to the great injustice and suffering now taking place in Palestine.

IRGAC statement on the war in Gaza and Europe's attack on civil rights

Cufré

Latin America

The airline industry has only just recovered from its most severe crisis in history: the COVID-19 pandemic. For cabin crew workers in particular, the sectorial restructuring following LATAM Airways’ departure and the changes in the aeronautical regulations in 2021 marked a shift in labour relations and working standards

Restructuring the Skies: The Post-pandemic Shift in Argentine Aviation Labour Relations

Larruscahim

Book review: Lacan e a Democracia: clínica e crítica em tempos sombrios (Lacan and Democracy: Clinic and Critique in Dark Times) by Christian Dunker

Condominium Logic and the Rise of the Far Right: Historicism of Fear, Ressentiment, and Affect in Brazilian Politics

During one week, "Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South" gathered scholars, activists, students, journalists and many other to discuss the various manifestations of authoritarian neoliberalism, reactionary populism, and strategies of resistance. Here you find the video recordings of our discussions.<br>

Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South

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

Featured

Melehat Kutun is a Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies. She has written her habilitation project at Kassel University.

Hülya Dinçer is a human rights lawyer and scholar from Turkey. 

Sagorika is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi as well as an affiliate at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP), UNC, Chapel Hill

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

New Podcast: This Authoritarian Life

Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

IRGAC statement on the war in Gaza and Europe's attack on civil rights

Restructuring the Skies: The Post-pandemic Shift in Argentine Aviation Labour Relations

Condominium Logic and the Rise of the Far Right: Historicism of Fear, Ressentiment, and Affect in Brazilian Politics

Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South

Featured

Fellows

Publications

Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

IRGAC statement on the war in Gaza and Europe's attack on civil rights

Restructuring the Skies: The Post-pandemic Shift in Argentine Aviation Labour Relations

Condominium Logic and the Rise of the Far Right: Historicism of Fear, Ressentiment, and Affect in Brazilian Politics

Featured

Fellows

Publi­cations

Publications