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

Iris Hefets

Iris Hefets is a psychoanalyst and board member of "Jewish Voice for Peace", an organization which has been one of the most vocal critics of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and its blockade and bombardment of Gaza in Germany. She was born in Israel and studied psychoanalysis, which she has been practicing for many years. She edited the "Kedma" portal, a platform for Mizrachi discourse in Hebrew. In 2002 she left Israel and has since been living in Berlin. She is known in Germany for staging one-person protests in response to Israel's most recent campaign in Gaza.

Guest appearance on:

The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism (Origins) #4