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Record Nr.

UNISA996500666803316

Titolo

Global Authoritarianism : Perspectives and Contestations from the South / / ed. by International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-8394-6209-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Edition Politik ; ; 132

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Embedded Authoritarianism -- Hindu Majoritarianism and Authoritarian Shifts in the Age of Informational Capitalism in India -- Right-Wing Authoritarianism Against Nature -- Neoliberal Authoritarian Urbanism -- Authoritarian Neoliberalism from Below -- Reconfiguration of the Regime of Impunity and Authoritarian Statecraft in Turkey -- Anti-feminist Meeting Points in Latin America -- Exploring the Colonial and Apartheid Roots of Urban Authoritarianism in Postapartheid South Africa -- (Re)Thinking Authoritarianism in Democracy -- Authoritarianism and Developmentalism Framing ‘Progressive’ Governments in Mexico and Argentina -- Agrarian Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, and the Political Reactions from below in Southern Africa -- Factors of Resilience and Constraint in the Myanmar Resistance Movement -- Contentions and Contradictions -- Production of Activism under Authoritarianism -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

We are witnessing a worldwide resurgence of reactionary nationalist, religious, racist, and antifeminist ideologies and movements, as well as a rapid process of global de-democratization. Nevertheless, most studies remain tied to a methodological nationalism, while comparative research is almost exclusively limited to European countries and the USA. But authoritarian transformations in the Global South and the struggles against them have not only been at least as dramatic as in the



North, they also often date back longer - and have been studied and theorized by Southern scholars for many years. Twenty scholar-activists from the Global South show in their in-depth studies how national processes of authoritarian capitalism have undermined political systems on a global scale.