International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies

16/11/2022 by IRGAC

BOOK | Global Authoritarianism: Perspectives and Contestations from the South is now out in print

Collective book brings 15 global perspectives from the South on authoritarian transformations and internationalist counter-strategies

15/11/2022 by IRGAC

VIDEOS | Panels #CAPS22

Watch video recordings of the panels and discussions that took place during the conference in Berlin

31/10/2022 by Ülker Sözen

DOSSIER | „New Faces of Authoritarianism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Global South“

In the summer semester of 2022, IRGAC fellows taught a course titled “New Faces of Authoritarianism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Global South”. This dossier presents contributions by the course participants composed of their essays discussing conceptual issues and case studies on different topics regarding authoritarianism and counter-movements

31/10/2022 by IRGAC

Dossier | Drowning the Multitudes of People of Colour

After years of climate denial, diversion, co-optations by the elite, and control of climate narratives, the lived realities of climate change and its profound implications for the future can no longer be ignored

31/10/2022 by IRGAC

Dossier | The Potential of Anti-Capitalist Narratives

How myths and narratives can be used to simultaneously address differing concerns and needs of diverse groups and how they can help overcome fragmentation to accelerate the urgent social and ecological transformation of society?

31/10/2022 by IRGAC

Dossier | The 2022 Philippine President Elections are Over: When Will the Fake News Stop?

Straight from the tyrants’ playbook, the Marcos family destroyed the fragile information ecosystem and democracy in the Philippines by presenting alternative truths. Their family legitimized the distortion of facts for self-serving purposes

13/07/2022 by IRGAC

Inaugural Conference: The Crisis of Civilization and the Authoritarian Turn

Why do new forms of authoritarianism emerge so suddenly and simultaneously all around the world? Watch the vídeo of #CAPS22's Inaugural Conference with Zeynep Gambetti, Alex Demirović, Hugo Fanton and moderation by Börries Nehe. Article by Aurel Eschmann

08/07/2022 by IRGAC

Anti-gender politics: religious fundamentalism and political neoconservatism

Watch the panel that took place during #CAPS22 with Ailynn Torres Santana, Sonia Correa, Funda Hulagu, Ewa Majewska and moderation by Andrea Dip

13/05/2022 by IRGAC

Contextualizing Global Authoritarianism

#CAPS22: Some key questions and considerations around the rise of the New Right

29/03/2022 by IRGAC

Conference “Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South“

The international conference “Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South“ will take place from May 16 – 21 at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin

22/07/2020 by Börries Nehe

Dossier | „Authoritarianism in the Time of COVID-19: Perspectives from the Global South“

31/10/2022 by IRGAC

DOSSIER | Export: Digital Authoritarianism. A Kaleidoscope of Russia, China, and the Contemporary World Order

The point of this petite kaleidoscope is to account for the Russian and Chinese models of digital authoritarianism and their complex ties to the international liberal order by uncovering their relations, resemblances, and differences from a historical perspective

10/08/2022 by Ailynn Torres

We Want Ourselves Alive and Debt-Free [Or a Manifesto on Financial Disobedience]

¿Quién le debe a quién?, a book from Tinta Limón which was edited in 2021 by Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago, and Lucía Cavallero

13/07/2022 by IRGAC

#CfA: „Authoritarian Neoliberalism & Reactionary Populism: Ideology, Subjectivity and Affect“

Call for Applications by the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter- Strategies of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung for postdoctoral fellowships at research institutions in countries in the Global South

02/03/2022 by Börries Nehe

Art and Resistance: An Interview with Börries Nehe and Aurel Eschmann

How do we find images and develop counter-strategies that embolden others and create a narrative for global struggles today?

22/10/2021 by Mariano Féliz

2001 as a Murmur, Looting as a Project, and New Promises for Social Change