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.
This Authoritarian Life
Aftershocks of the Past: Reunification and Resentment in East Germany (Origins) #2
Resentment may lay dormant for decades, before suddenly erupting and inundating public life. In this second episode of This Authoritarian Life, we continue to explore the ‘Origins’ of authoritarianism by asking how the past can exercise a decisive influence in and over the present. We do this by focusing on the case of East Germany, where guests 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐝𝐞 and 𝐄𝐥𝐬𝐤𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐝 have conducted research and staged artistic performances.
How does the experience of a curtailed revolution inscribe itself into the human body? How does it play into East Germans’ overwhelming sense of political abandonment? And how has the far right taken advantage of all this?
To find out, tune into the second episode of This Authoritarian Life, with Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren.
More about our guests' work:
Elske Rosenfeld's Archive of gestures:
www.archiveofgestures.net
Anna Stiede's Anna Medea performances:
https://annastiede.com/ANNAMEDEA-2024
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