“Russia is giving carte blanche to the far right”

A year ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine on the pretext of „denazification“. A year after the outbreak of war, IRGAC member Alexander Tushkin from Russia spoke to Sergey Movchan, left-wing activist and participant in the Marker project which tracks far-right violence in Ukraine, about Ukrainian nationalism, the far right and antifascists in the Ukrainian army, and how the war has affected their position in society.

IRGAC

State and Society in Turkey after the Earthquakes: Initial Reflections

In this two-part essay, Ülker Sözen lay out her initial observations and reflections about the state and society’s responses in the aftermath of the massive disaster in Turkey

Ülker Sözen

Ülker Sözen received her PhD in Sociology from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Turkey in 2017. Her dissertation explored the identity revival and the entanglement of culture and politics among the Dersimli people.

Echoes of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi in Iran and Elsewhere

An interview with Nafis Fathollahzadeh and Ülker Sözen

Börries Nehe

Börries Nehe holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a specialization in Sociology. He is currently the academic coordinator of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism & Counter-Strategies

„Brazil is experiencing a fascist uprising“ Interview with Vladimir Safatle

On January 8, more than 4,000 supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded, looted, and vandalized public buildings, in what the professor Vladimir Safatle claims to be a „fascist insurrection“ with the support and collaboration of the military police

Andrea Dip

Making Russia Great Again?

How the Kremlin suppressed Russian nationalists, but ended up pursuing their greatest ambition

IRGAC

BOOK | Global Authoritarianism: Perspectives and Contestations from the South is out!

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

IRGAC

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

Ülker Sözen

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

IRGAC

Dossier | Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies in the Classroom: The Pedagogy of Collective Learning Across Geographies

This dossier presents a glimpse of the course participants’ outputs at the end of the classes and includes their reflections and case studies on different aspects of authoritarianism, neoliberal governance, the effects of colonialism, and counter-movements that take place in a variety of settings

Ülker Sözen

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?