Projekt

Authoritarian, right-wing populist and fascist tendencies are currently gaining strength all over the world. The task is thus not only to analyze authoritarianism scienti?ically, but also to respond to it politically. For this purpose, we propose the novel concept of Emergencies of Authoritarianism. Emergencies implies emergences, the development of authoritarian tendencies out of their ?normal" latency and enabling conditions. In doing so, we want to adopt an analytical perspective that analyzes local trajectories in their transversal global entanglements and complex interactions in order to avoid both methodological nationalism and Eurocentric bias. At the same time, emergencies demand an immediate response: Authoritarianisms cannot be reduced to past times, nor to distant places, but can emerge, with new victim groups, anywhere. As a global network with equal partners from the global South, we work closely with non-academic actors such as NGOs, cultural institutions, and journalists, using locally generated knowledge to develop robust responses to the threat of authoritarianism.

• Prof. Dr. Robin Celikates

  Freie Universität Berlin
  Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
  Institut für Philosophie
  Berlin
  

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Loick

  University of Amsterdam (UvA)
  Faculty of Humanities
  Capaciteitsgroep Philosophy and Public Affairs
  Amsterdam
  Niederlande
  

• Dr. Zeynep Gambetti, Ph.D.

  Bogazici University
  Political Science and International Relations
  Istanbul
  Türkei
  

• Prof. Dr. Judith Butler

  University of California - Berkeley
  Critical Theory
  Consortium for International Research
  Berkeley
  USA