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Theory & Research

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  • Solidarity
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  • Antifeminism & LGBTIQ
  • Neoliberalism

From (Individual) Fears to (Collective) Cares

Theory & Research Neoliberalism has dismantled the social structures that offered security and orientation to life. The far right successfully channels the resulting fears and anxieties towards purist, social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of care stands as a defiant response to that. In an era defined by uncertainty and precarity, care emerges as survival, resistance, and imagination. Care is a counter-normative project: sustaining and (re)generating social life while embracing contradiction and resisting the demands for purity.
By Firoozeh Farvardin and Gustavo Robles
From (Individual) Fears to (Collective) Cares
  • WANA
  • Antifeminism & LGBTIQ
  • Neoliberalism
  • Religion
  • Solidarity

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

Theory & ResearchAll 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?
By Ebrahim Towfigh and Seyed Mehdi Yousefi
Why Do We Need a New Sociology of Revolution? The (Im)possibility of Zan-Zendegi-Azadi
  • WANA
  • Antifeminism & LGBTIQ
  • Counter-Strategies
  • Solidarity
  • Times Of Collapse

Neoliberal Governance and the Feminist Revolution in Iran

Theory & ResearchThe revolution in Iran can be framed as a feminist revolution also because of its form of resistance. The feminist performative/figurative dimension of the revolution, as an anonymous feminist writer and protester from Iran elaborates, is “the distinguishing feature” of the revolutionary movement that we are witnessing
By Firoozeh Farvardin
Neoliberal Governance and the Feminist Revolution in Iran

In Perspective

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  • Latin America
  • Labor Struggles
  • Urban Struggles
  • COVID-19
  • Counter-Strategies

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

In PerspectiveThe 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
By Sara Cufré
Restructuring the Skies: The Post-pandemic Shift in Argentine Aviation Labour Relations
  • Latin America
  • Economy
  • Elections
  • Populism

Milei's Government in Argentina: Will Going Against Gravity Work?

In PerspectiveAs Milei's government approaches a year in office, important changes that were not foreseen a few months ago seem to be signaling the end of the honeymoon. And the Argentine political scene may once again show its traditional vivacity
By Mariano Féliz
Milei's Government in Argentina: Will Going Against Gravity Work?
  • Global
  • Academia
  • Counter-Strategies
  • Aesthetics & Affects
  • Global South
  • Subjectivity & Ideology

Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

In PerspectiveThe 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
By Börries Nehe and Aurel Eschmann
Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

Interview

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  • WANA
  • Counter-Strategies
  • Subjectivity & Ideology

“Revolution can happen even if people do not think about it” — an interview with Asef Bayat

InterviewThis interview with Professor Asef Bayat discuss the characteristics of twenty-first-century revolutionary movements and their conditions of possibility in the future and highlights the impact of global political shifts on revolutionary activism
By Firoozeh Farvardin
“Revolution can happen even if people do not think about it” — an interview with Asef Bayat
  • WANA
  • Counter-Strategies
  • Labor Struggles
  • Economy

“We Need a Flood!” – A Young and Independent Union’s Struggle in and through Waves of Local Strikes

InterviewIn this interview, we talk to Mehmet Türkmen, President of the United Textile, Weaving and Leather Workers’ Union (Birtek-Sen), which is an independent trade union founded in Gaziantep, one of Turkey’s major textile centres, at the beginning of 2022. Since its establishment, Birtek-Sen has played a critical role in numerous strikes, particularly in Gaziantep 
By Onur Can Taştan
“We Need a Flood!” – A Young and Independent Union’s Struggle in and through Waves of Local Strikes
  • Europe
  • Antifeminism & LGBTIQ
  • Counter-Strategies
  • Fascism
  • Subjectivity & Ideology

“It’s Not Possible to be Anti-Fascist Without Being Feminist”

InterviewEwa Majewska talks about why feminism should be at the centre of anti-fascist militancy and theory, reflects on how women researchers are still not heard or are ignored in academia and argues that the left needs to put its prejudices aside and research the institution of "family"
By Andrea Dip
“It’s Not Possible to be Anti-Fascist Without Being Feminist”

Review

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  • Latin America
  • Subjectivity & Ideology
  • Neoliberalism

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

ReviewBook review: Lacan e a Democracia: clínica e crítica em tempos sombrios (Lacan and Democracy: Clinic and Critique in Dark Times) by Christian Dunker
By Paula Gil Larruscahim
Condominium Logic and the Rise of the Far Right: Historicism of Fear, Ressentiment, and Affect in Brazilian Politics
  • Latin America

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

Review¿Quién le debe a quién?, a book from Tinta Limón which was edited in 2021 by Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago, and Lucía Cavallero
By Ailynn Torres Santana
We Want Ourselves Alive and Debt-Free                                                [Or a Manifesto on Financial Disobedience]