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

Firoozeh Farvardin

Firoozeh Farvardin is a feminist scholar and activist. She grew up in Iran, studied sociology in Iran and Germany and completed her doctoral thesis at Humboldt University. She currently works as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science (IPW) at the University of Vienna, specializing in politics and gender. She is also affiliated with the Middle East Research Group (MERGE) at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM).

Her research focuses on body politics, reproductive politics, gender strategies against authoritarian neoliberalism, emerging feminisms in the global south, feminist subjectivity, and social movements in Iran and the Middle East. Besides academic publications, her writings have been published in Untoldmag, Open Democracy, and analyse & kritik (AK).

Guest appearance on:

Veiling and Unveiling: Everyday Gender Struggles in Iran (Origins) #3