About
Around the world, we see a resurgence of reactionary nationalist, religious, racist, classist, and anti-feminist ideologies and movements, as well as the rapid undermining of democratic political systems. The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) zooms in on the global interconnections of authoritarian capitalism and reactionary populism and places them at the centre of scholar-activist debates.
The IRGAC
brings together more than 20 scholar-activists from countries of the Global
South and is
currently funding several post-doc research positions at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam. We regularly publish new findings and research excerpts on this website, as
well as in journals and other publications. We have recently published two books, Beyond Molotovs - A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies and Global
Authoritarianism. Perspectives and Contestations from the South, both open access.
The IRGAC is an initiative of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung together with University of Potsdam, with funds by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany.