Börries Nehe

Coordinator

Portrait of Börries Nehe

Börries Nehe coordinates the International Research Group on Authoritarianism & Counter-Strategies. He holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a specialization in Sociology. His work focuses on authoritarianism, far-right ideologies and movements as well as violence, social movements and state space theory, mostly in Latin America.

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Samir Gandesha: “Today’s fascism is based on our need for meaning in life”

InterviewIn our interview with Samir Gandesha we discuss the relation between authoritarianism, colonialism, and crisis – the climate crisis, the crisis of masculinity, and the crisis of the left, among others. In this context, “social anxieties become transformed into political fears through populist rhetoric”, Gandesha claims. But for him, authoritarian tendencies aren’t limited to the far-right; they are also at the very core of the moralizing spirit of the “woke” left.
By Börries Nehe and Gustavo Robles

Echoes of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi in Iran and Elsewhere

InterviewIn this interview, Nafis Fathollahzadeh and Ülker Sözen talk about the recent intersectional feminist revolution in Iran, the wave of protests that started with the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini by the morality police in September 2022, and trace important parallels between Iran and Turkey in terms of the dynamics of state violence and the power of women’s and LGBTQIA+ struggle to inspire an emancipatory social mobilization.
By Börries Nehe and Andrea Dip