About Us

The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) is an initiative of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung that brings together more than 20 scholar-activists from across the South to deepen and exchange ongoing research on authoritarian capitalism and far-right ideologies and movements, as well as strategic responses from the Left.

Damir Arsenijevic

Post-Doc Fellow

Damir Arsenijević is a literary theorist and psychoanalyst, working at the intersection of academia, activism, and art. In 2019, he set up “Zemlja-Voda-Zrak”, a platform for environmental humanities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Onur Can Taştan

Post-Doc Fellow

Onur Can Taştan is a researcher from Turkey working on labor movements and trade unionism.

Sara Cufré

Post-Doc Fellow

Sara Cufré is a feminist researcher from Argentina. She holds a degree in Political Science and a PhD. in Social Sciences (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Andrea Dip

Staff

Andrea Dip is a Brazilian investigative journalist, author, and researcher

Inés Durán Matute

Associate Fellow

Inés is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (Mexico) and an active companion of the struggle of native peoples in defence of their territory.

Jan-David Echterhoff

Staff

Jan-David accompanies the Global Scholarly Dialogue Programme as a project manager

Hugo Fanton

Post-Doc Fellow

Hugo Fanton is the State Coordinator of the Central de Movimentos Populares (Popular Movements Central) in São Paulo

Firoozeh Farvardin

Post-Doc Fellow

Firoozeh Farvardin is a postdoc researcher/activist working on gender/sexual (counter) strategies of authoritarian neoliberalism at IRGAC hosted by the MERGE.

Mariano Féliz

Associate Fellow

Mariano Féliz is a social activist in Argentina. He is also a professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and researcher at the CIG-IDIHCS.

Nwet Kay Khine

Associate Fellow

Nwet Kay Khine, a former journalist and writer from Myanmar, is now a post doctoral research fellow at Passau University and affiliated to the Center for Social Development Studies of Chulalongkorn University

Melehat Kutun

Post-Doc Fellow

Melehat Kutun is a Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies. She has written her habilitation project at Kassel University.

Paula Gil Larruscahim

Post-Doc Fellow

Paula holds a PhD in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC) from universities of Kent (UK) and Utrecht (NL) and a M.A. degree in Criminal Sciences from the Pontific Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS)

Kennedy Manduna

Post-Doc Fellow

Kennedy Manduna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow hosted by the Wits School of Governance (WSG) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Julieta Mira

Associate Fellow

Julieta Mira has devoted her academic career to studying and researching the central human rights issues of “ustice, memory, and truth.

Boaventura Monjane

Associate Fellow

Boaventura Monjane holds a PhD on Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (Sociology), from the CES/Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.

Börries Nehe

Coordinator

Börries Nehe coordinates the International Research Group on Authoritarianism & Counter-Strategies.

Fathima Nizaruddin

Associate Fellow

Fathima Nizaruddin is an academic and documentary filmmaker.

Gustavo Robles

Post-Doc Fellow

Gustavo Robles is an IRGAC Postdoc Fellow working on the subjective dimensions in the current phase of neoliberal governmentality.

Erol Saglam

Associate Fellow

Erol Saglam is a social anthropologist working on reconfigurations of statecraft, its relation to the law, and the changing parameters of political subjectivity.

Ailynn Torres Santana

Associate Fellow

Ailynn Torres Santana is an associated researcher at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies.

Sagorika Singha

Post-Doc Fellow

Sagorika is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi as well as an affiliate at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP), UNC, Chapel Hill