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The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies is an initiative of @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social and @unipotsdam.bsky.social‬ that brings together activist researchers from across the world | irgac.org | irgac.substack.com
From the 1980s Sex Wars to today's Gender Wars: #MoralPanics bind communities to conservative elites, promising safety at the cost of autonomy. What happens when the most vulnerable are forced to trade freedom for imposed protection? irgac.org/articles/gen...
August 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Starting #today we are showing our shop window exhibition on anti-authoritarian strategies #BeyondMolotovs at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin! Proud to be part of the #GoodNightFarRight conference happening this weekend! @kol-orangotango.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
February 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We demand that universities resist pressure from biased press and politicians & defend university, freedom of opinion & academic freedom of staff and students!
--> Statement re: cancellation of Eyal Weizman @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @franceskalbs.bsky.social

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February 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"Unlike politics, #art doesn’t try to fix or calibrate the machine. It does something more subversive and unsettling: it shows the possibility of another world." (Sup Insurgente Galeano)

>Read our contribution on the role of art for Zapatista resistance, #BeyondMolotovs: tvl.ink/beyond-molot...
January 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“I think for Israel the Gaza Strip was always the ‘Id’ or ‘Es’ as Freud calls it. This is the place where everything is allowed.” (Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst)

🎧 New podcast episode “The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism’’, with Iris and @leninology.bsky.social

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January 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
OUT NOW 🎧 Check out the third episode of This Authoritarian Life, “Veiling and Unveiling: Everyday Gender Struggles in Iran (Origins)’’, with Firoozeh Farvardin and Yasaman Pishvaei. Brought to you with the support of IRGAC
December 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Seminario Universitario de la Modernidad: Versiones y Dimensiones (SUM), in collaboration with IRGAC, invite to the International Colloquium: "Autoritarismo, Estrategias Anti-autoritarias y Nuevos Horizontes Utópicos" on November 28th, at UNAM, Mexico
November 14, 2024 at 11:25 AM
OUT NOW 🎧 This Authoritarian Life is a podcast that explores everyday human stories in order to better understand modern-day authoritarian politics. Listen anywhere where podcasts are available. Brought to you with the support of IRGAC
irgac.org/articles/new...
October 24, 2024 at 9:26 AM
"Even though in the WWII every fourth citizen of #Belarus was killed, our sites of memory are not numerous. Historical traumas have to battle for a place under the sun of memory, and in many post-Soviet countries it was the victorious rhetoric that won"
irgac.org/articles/mem...
February 20, 2024 at 2:27 PM
With essays on Brazil, India, Turkey, Argentina, Ecuador, South Africa, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Philippines and a foreword by Veronica Gago, this book offers multiple views on the phenomenon of global authoritarianism. Download your free copy here: irgac.org/publications...
January 29, 2024 at 9:19 AM