New Emergency Call with Kolektiv Wakuum: A Sorbian collective doing queer, decolonial, &cultural work.They discuss right-wing violence,the importance of community organizing,(sub)cultural antifascism,and the significance of a deeper understanding of minority&Indigenous cultures youtu.be/Rf6bdZXtWJg
More on this topic by Adriana Zaharijević: “Authoritarian Dissolutions of Humanity” ctjournal.org/2025/05/27/a... @criticaltimes1.bsky.social
Adriana Zaharijević on transactional authoritarianism in Serbia: a system that transforms citizens into clients& public goods into private resources.It discourages political thinking and renders institutions increasingly hollow. However, the Serbian student movement is resisting youtu.be/_7vfeHSGB9o
@eoaproject.bsky.social just published a new "Emergency Call" with an activist in Russia, reporting on their struggle against authoritarianism on the ground. Check out our website for a collection of calls with activists all around the world. emergencies-of-authoritarianism.org/emergency-ca...
In this Emergency Call, we spoke with an anonymous grassroots organization that supports activist groups and individuals facing intense pressure and serious danger in today’s militarist and authoritarian Russia
youtu.be/B-0geG3uvxs
In our series ‘Emergency Calls’, we talk to non-academic partners to ask them for advice: In this episode, we spoke with Vanja and Lidija from Re:AFK, a collective in Serbia/Croatia that engages with abolitionist feminist ideas: youtu.be/2KiHS1ZKGVA
Finally out! Watch the video of our event earlier this month on Fortress Fascism. It is an insightful conversation between Nandita Sharma, Silky Shah, Mahamat Daoud, and Seán Binder, moderated by Esme Smithson Swain. youtu.be/8foE1RCSD0g
In this Emergency Call, we spoke with Maisan Hamdan from Urfod – Refuse, Your People Will Protect You, a collective supporting Druze Palestinian youth in refusing conscription into the Israeli army.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTa...htt
How can we resist the border?
Border authoritarianism is fueled by racism. The modern nation-state creates a breeding ground for fascist ideologies that feed on emotions. This international panel brings together scholars and activists resisting borders across the world to consider anti-fascist strategies.
Join us for our next event: Fortress Fascism: Border Authoritarianism and Activist Struggle
1.12., 12.30 EST / 18.30 CET
An online conversation with Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social, Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social, Mahamat Daoud, and Seán Binder. Moderated by Esme Smithson Swain.
@volkancidam.bsky.social @gambettiz.bsky.social @ktbberlin.bsky.social
Our panelists consider the contradictions, dilemmas, and intimate aspects of authoritarianism: how it affects the way we behave, feel, and relate to each other; how it generates indignation, fear, resignation, or trauma; and how it changes what we choose to hold dear and what we find unbearable.
The video of the online conversation "Living in Authoritarian Times" that we co-organized with the April Institute and Critup is now online: Rahul Bhatia, Volkan Çidam, Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, and Joseph Howley, moderated by Zeynep Gambetti.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1U...
The German research group "Politics and Gender" organizes a lecture series (online) on "Authoritarianism, Militarization, Fascistization – Feminist Perspectives and Analyses"
www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s...
"In the Midst", the blog of the journal @criticaltimes1.bsky.social, publishes analyses of global authoritarianisms. The newest entry is by two of our members, Rosaura Martinez Ruiz and @danielloick.bsky.social, on the role of "surplus" or "waste" populations.
To understand Milei's midterm victory, re-watch our Dispatch with Gisela Catanzaro from May of this year, explaining "chainsaw authoritarianism".
In this Emergency Call we spoke to Gathanga Ndung’u from the Mathare Social Justice Centre about colonial continuities and continuities of resistance, the fight against extrajudicial killings, community-based organizing and the struggle for social justice in Kenya.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI3s...
There has been a slight change: The event will take place at 6.00 pm central European time, which is 1.00 pm East Coast time. Please register for the webinar here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Living in Authoritarian Times: An online conversation with Ghazaleh Alimardani (Iran), Rahul Bhatia (India), Volkan Çidam (Turkey), Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki (Germany), Joseph Howley (USA). Moderated by Zeynep Gambetti (Turkey).
26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.
What wisdom would you share with your younger self?
How is life under authoritarian conditions for you?
What are your coping mechanisms for fascism?
Announcement of the event
Living in Authoritarian Times: An online conversation with Ghazaleh Alimardani (Iran), Rahul Bhatia (India), Volkan Çidam (Turkey), Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki (Germany), Joseph Howley (USA). Moderated by Zeynep Gambetti (Turkey).
26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.
Authoritarianism is not simply a political order, but also deeply affects the everyday: The way we behave, feel, and relate to each other. Join us for this online conversation with activists and scholars from around the world.
@gambettiz.bsky.social
Statement by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs on the recent attacks on academic freedom @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
criticaltheoryconsortium.org/announcement...
In this episode of Emergency Calls, we spoke with YoNoFui, an abolitionist, transfeminist, and anti-punitivist collective in Buenos Aires. They shared how they organize against 'contemporary legalized torture centers', and why we should unite against repression youtu.be/t7-7PWJFygo
In our new "Dispatch of Authoritarianism", Rosaura Martínez Ruiz elaborates on her concept of Antigonia, which enables us to perceive the political claim to mourn put forward by the collectives of buscadoras in Mexico as an anti-authoritarian struggle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXqF...
In our new "Dispatch of Authoritarianism", Rosaura Martínez Ruiz elaborates on her concept of Antigonia, which enables us to perceive the political claim to mourn put forward by the collectives of buscadoras in Mexico as an anti-authoritarian struggle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXqF...
Check out the latest episode of Dispatches of Authoritarianism: In this episode, Zeynep Gambetti discusses the current situation in Turkey, tracing today's configuration back to the disruptive implementation of neoliberalism and the resulting societal transformation youtu.be/JT_4XysBj0A
“The politicians want to define protest as merely voicing a demand without disrupting anything; they don’t recognize the value of putting one’s body between the state & the scapegoated. There is apparently no ‘peaceful’ way to do that. What we are witnessing is not only protest; it is self-defense.”