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The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) is an initiative of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation that brings together scholar-activists from across the Global South to share and exchange ongoing research on the rise of the Rights and Far-rights and strategic responses from a left-wing perspective. Thus, IRGAC seeks to combine in-depth studies of national and regional processes with a global perspective that recognizes and analyses the multiple manifestations of authoritarian neoliberalism and the different processes that lie beyond the “rising tide” of authoritarianism.
This lecture series aims to provide a space to think and discuss phenomena related to the emergence of authoritarian governments, movements, and ideologies in the countries of the Global South from the different lines of research of the IRGAC members. The course will cover a wide range of central topics to the social sciences today including state violence, biopolitical reproduction of capitalism, sexual dissidence and feminist struggles, the entanglement of authoritarianism with digital technologies, peasant and indigenous movements, the human rights regime, environmental crisis, and gentrification processes. Each of these topics will be articulated addressing the common dynamics and diverse forms of the authoritarian response to the global crisis of neoliberalism. Furthermore, the lecture series will examine the possibilities for alternatives, examples of resistance, and counter-strategies from the Global South. |
