This Authoritarian Life

This Authoritarian Life explores everyday human stories to make sense of authoritarian politics. Once a month, anthropologists Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren, relying on their own experience from Hungary and Turkey, invite guests from all over the world to shine light on the following questions:

What are the roots of authoritarianism? What does the rise of authoritarianism look like up close? How can everyday people navigate authoritarian spaces? And how can authoritarianism be confronted?

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It’s about understanding: giving you a better grasp of the deeper causes driving authoritarianism. It’s about insight: offering a glimpse into the difficulties of navigating authoritarian lifeworlds. It’s about hope: examples of people who work toward a more humane world.

Guest

Guy Shalev

Guy Shalev is a medical and political anthropologist and the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel (https://www.phr.org.il/en/). He earned his PhD in Cultural and Medical Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. Under his leadership, Physicians for Human Rights IsraeI has worked to defend the right to health for Palestinians by documenting the medical consequences of the occupation and post-October 7 genocide, supplying hospitals and clinics in Gaza, and operating mobile clinics in the West Bank.

Guest appearance on:

Politics of Life and Death: Gaza and the Weaponization of Medicine (Frontlines) #1