Theory & Research

Between the Expansion of Markets and the Defence of Rights: Rapprochement and Disputes between Businesspeople and Social Movements in São Paulo’s Largest Favela

Theory & Research In this article, Hugo Fanton analyzes, from São Paulo's largest favela, the corporate social performance and the urban territorial political dispute in the rise and crisis of Lulism

Can Mainstream Critical Analyses Explain the State Transformation in Turkey?

Theory & Research In many countries today states are intervening in social relations with more authoritarian policies in order to overcome economic, political, and social crises. Neoliberalism and authoritarianism are presented as polar opposites in main-stream liberal criticism. The purpose of this article is to emphasise the limitations of such an interpretation by considering the main arguments of the most prominent mainstream critical analyses of authoritarianism in Turkey

By Melehat Kutun

How the Farmers in India Countered the Populist Authoritarianism of the Right

Theory & Research Counterstrategies need not merely emotionalize protest but to also revolutionize emotions. They need to dig deep into everyday ethics, their presence in common sense, and modes of normative evaluation. This is what happened during the Indian farmers' protests. Three years after they erupted, Ajay Gudavarthy takes a look at the successful mobilization that managed to make a dent in India's authoritarian regime

By Ajay Gudavarthy, CPS, JNU

(Re)thinking contemporary authoritarianism

Theory & Research Colloquium held at the Gino Germani Research Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Buenos Aires, brought together different research groups and projects dedicated to investigating the relationship between authoritarianism, democracy, and neoliberalism

By Gustavo Robles

The First Months of Lula’s Government and Neo-Liberal Stuckness

Theory & Research On 8 January, Brazil and the world were shocked by images of the same Brasilia now filled with supporters of Jair Bolsonaro in a coup attempt. The attack was defeated and the Supreme Federal Court (STF) responded vigorously, but the sensation of a not-so-new era returned: projections of a transformative future gave way to the feeling of imprisonment in a past that permanently restores our historical dilemmas to the present.