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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

In this Emergency Call we spoke with Khaled Ghrairi from DAMJ a Tunisian human rights organization promoting and protecting the rights of LGBTQI+ people in Tunisia, about recent authoritarian shifts and their neocolonial entanglement. youtu.be/HUyWz7HBACM

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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

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Emergency Call with Kolektiw Wakuum

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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

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Dispatches of Authoritarianism: Adriana Zaharijević on Transactional Authoritarianism in Serbia

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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

@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...

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Emergency Calls In this Emergency Call, we spoke with V, who works with a grassroots initiative supporting activist groups and individuals facing heavy pressure and real danger in the militaris...

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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

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Emergency Call with an Anonymous Grassroots Initiative in Russia/Ukraine

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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

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Fortress Fascism: Border Authoritarianism and Activist Struggles

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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

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Emergency Call with Urfod – Refuse, Your People Will Protect You New, Maisan Hamdan

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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.

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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...

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Living in Authoritarian Times: Everyday Struggles and Antifascist Tactics

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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...

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"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.

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

To understand Milei's midterm victory, re-watch our Dispatch with Gisela Catanzaro from May of this year, explaining "chainsaw authoritarianism".

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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...

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Emergency Call with Mathare Social Justice Centre, Gathanga Ndung’u

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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...

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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.

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What wisdom would you share with your younger self?

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

How is life under authoritarian conditions for you?

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What are your coping mechanisms for fascism?

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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

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Emergency Call with YoNoFui

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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...

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Dispatch Rosaura Martínez Ruiz

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“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.”

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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

If you want to get a first impression of what our Benjamin Lectures next week will be about, you can listen to Tommie Shelby talk to the host Lukas Ondreka on Dissens Podcast about grassroots solidarity and resistance to today's authoritarian movements: podcast.dissenspodcast.de/306-racism

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#306 Tommie Shelby: "Only grassroots solidarity can stop the march of authoritarianism"

Politics for the rich, blatant discrimination against minorities and attacks on basic rights: How can we build new forms of solidarity against the creeping authoritarianism in the United States and el...

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

In April, "Emergencies of Authoritarianism” organized a panel discussion in Buenos Aires on "Authoritarian Times". We are proud to anounce that the recording is online now. Check out the English version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SB4... and the Spanish version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7oQ....

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Authoritarian Times: Crisis and Utopia, English Version

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our colleague Debaditya Bhattacharya has written an insightful piece on the articulation of authoritarianism in India, examining the context and consequences of the recent acts of war

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Emergencies of authoritarianism require not only a precise theoretical analysis, but also an urgent political response. In our series 'Emergency Calls', we talk to non-academic partners to ask them for advice: What is to be done? m.youtube.com/watch?v=LfOl...

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Emergency Call with Detention Watch Network, Silky Shah

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

“The question is whether fascism is taking over. If by that we understand the abolition of the remnants of the constitutional state, the organization of paramilitary troops, granting the police extraordinary legal powers . . . then one can speak with complete justification of an incipient fascism.”

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The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review

A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In the second episode of our "Dispatches", project member Gisela Catanzaro lays out the differences between the chainsaw authoritarianism of Milei and authoritarian movements in the "Global North". www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZj8...

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Dispatches of Authoritarianism: Gisela Catanzaro on Milei´s Chainsaw Authoritarianism

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Last week, gunmen killed 26 people in Kashmir. What followed was an intense crackdown on Muslims in India, especially Muslim students. In the first episode of "Dispatches", our project member Debaditya Bhattacharya situates it within a broader authoritarian framework. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVFA...

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Dispatches of Authoritarianism: Debaditya Bhattacharya on India as a Custodial State

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

What is the temporality of authoritarianism? Is it a depletion of the future, a nostalgia for a lost glorious past, a permanent state of exception? These were some of the questions we discussed at our 2nd exploratory workshop in Buenos Aires.

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judith-levine.bsky.social @judith-levine.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Under fascism, which breaks social ties and makes everyone fear everyone, the mere act of neighbors trusting and helping neighbors becomes radical civil disobedience www.bostonreview.net/articles/mut...

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Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism - Boston Review

As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"Contemporary authoritarians everywhere mobilize misogyny to consolidate their power by reinforcing gendered hierarchies led by cis men while preserving racialized, economic, and geopolitical hierarchical orders." Contribution by Annie Wilkinson politicalresearch.org/2025/04/02/g...

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Gender and Authoritarianism

Annie Wilkinson provides a framework understanding the rise of anti-gender movements across the globe as part of a wave of autocratization.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Milei’s campaign slogan—“there is no money”—must be understood not simply as an argument for balanced budgets and inflation reduction, the “achievement” that Western media glorifies at the expense of suffering populations. It is above all a justification for sacrifice.

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The Chainsaw International - Boston Review

From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.

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Emergencies of Authoritarianism @eoaproject.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Authoritarian Times: Crisis and Utopia April 24, 2025/ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm / Buenos Aires A panel discussion with Zeynep Gambetti (Istanbul), Rosaura Martínez (México), Daniel Loick (Amsterdam), Paula Biglieri (Buenos Aires), moderated by Gisela Catanzaro (Buenos Aires)

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