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.
Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco
Associate Fellow
Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco is a psychoanalyst and holds a PhD in philosophy.
Jeffrey Karam
Associate Fellow
Jeffrey G. Karam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University. He is a non-resident Research Associate at Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative.
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.
Pedro Salgado
Associate Fellow
Pedro Salgado is an International Relations scholar, working on the intersection between the fields of Historical Sociology and Global Political Economy.
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
Ülker Sözen
Associate Fellow
Ülker Sözen received her PhD in Sociology from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Turkey in 2017.
Alexander Tushkin
Post-Doc Fellow
Alexander Tushkin is a Russian antifascist journalist and visiting researcher at HWR Berlin
Verna Dinah Viajar
Associate Fellow
Verna Dinah Q. Viajar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines, School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP SOLAIR).
Yunyun Zhou
Associate Fellow
Yunyun Zhou is an Associate Professor in Chinese Politics and Society at the University of Oslo.
Himmat Zoubi
Associate Fellow
Himmat Zoubi (Zu’bi), is a Palestinian researcher and feminist activist. She received her PhD in Sociology from Ben-Gurion University and she holds two Master's degrees, one in Criminology and another in Gender Studies.
Alumni
Ayşegül Can
Alumni
Hülya Dinçer
Alumni
Saker El Nour
Alumni
Sabrina Fernandes
Alumni
Gopal Krishna
Alumni
Khanyile Joseph Mlotshwa
Alumni