Roundtable: Beyond Authoritarianism. Counterstrategies, Solidarities, Utopia
Channel: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Date: 15/09/2022

With: 
Eva von Redecker (Philosopher, Researcher and Writer, Germany)
Harsh Mander (Author and Activist; Robert Bosch Academy Fellow & Centre for Equity Studies, India)
Sabrina Fernandes (Ecosocialist Communicator and Researcher at the University of Brasilia, Brasil, IRGAC)
Damir Arsenijevic (Author, Activist and Psychoanalyst at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Yunyun Zhou (Feminist Researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway/ China)
Börries Nehe (Coordinator of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism & Counterstrategies, IRGAC)

How is authoritarianism experienced and fought against in different contexts? The panelists discuss the counterstrategies they find significant to defend rights and ask how to respond to people’s anger, resentment and anxiety that has been capitalized by the far-right and has engendered the different faces of authoritarianism we see in the world today.

The panel was part of the conference "Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South" (Berlin, May 16 - 21, 2022). Further information on the conference and on the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies can be found at https://irgac.org/