Börries Nehe
Coordinator
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.
Theory & ResearchIn April 2023, IRGAC and the Seminar on Subjectivity and Critical Theory (Seminario Subjetividad y Teoría Crítica, SSCT) of the Graduate School of Sociology at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico) met for a “South–South” dialogue, exchanging findings and experiences regarding the dynamics of the multiple global crises. This dossier presents some of the insights that have emerged from this encounter
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