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The Threat of Authoritarianism. Democracy at Stake

Robin Celikates, Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Debaditya Bhattacharya, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna

What, if anything, is new about the ‘new authoritarianism’ and how does it relate to, reinvent and augment previous authoritarian moments? If the line between liberal democracies and authoritarianism is not as clear as many imagine it to be, if indeed there is today an authoritarianism that (re-)emerges from within liberal democracies, where can we locate the democratic or democratizing potential of resistance to authoritarianism and what forms does it take today?

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28 April 2022