Theory & Research

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Authoritarianism and "Progress": Looking at Bolivia from the Crucible of Santa Cruz. An open dialogue.

Theory & Research How is “progress” understood in this territory? For whom is it intended? How has Bolivian society, particularly in Santa Cruz, been transformed in recent decades? Why speak of authoritarianism? Seeking collective answers to these questions—and opening the door to new ones—we met in July at a roundtable during the Congress of the Association of Bolivian Studies (AEB). This text summarises the reflections that emerged and presents a set of ongoing research projects.
By Claudia Cuellar

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

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

In Perspective

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The looming AI-powered cultural revolution

In PerspectiveInstitutions of culture and knowledge are facing an existential threat from an AI-powered assault. But interpretative entities such as universities, courts, and digital platforms are not only tools of domination, but also key terrains of struggle. As algorithmic bombardment threatens to disintegrate the common sense, we have to expand the commons of sense. 
By Maziar Samiee

Interview

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Rita Segato: "Gaza is a watershed moment, and the left is falling behind"

InterviewArgentinian feminist intellectual Rita Segato draws connections between the genocide in Gaza and the femicides she studied in Ciudad Juárez, and reflects about the current fascistic shift and how some of her key conceptualizations on coloniality, race, and violence, help us decipher it.
By Börries Nehe

Review

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Gender Wars. Or How the Right Takes Control Over the Future

ReviewIn her new book Gender Wars: The Sexual Politics of the Radical Right, feminist journalist Nuria Alabao brilliantly analyzes the conservative attack on bodily autonomy and childhood in the name of security.
By Paülah Nurit Shabel