The Transnational Institute (TNI) is issuing an open call for essays and contributions on authoritarianism. These may be written or artistic essays. Selected authors/artists will be invited to join an ongoing scholar-activist working group on authoritarianism.
Our goal is to produce a series of popular primers, articles, multimedia and artistic collaborations that can equip social movements with the analysis and ideas to confront authoritarianism and advance just solidarity-based alternatives.
The election of the likes of Trump, Duterte and Modi has bought long-standing concerns about an authoritarian drift dramatically to the fore. Nationalist, racist and xenophobic forces have emerged or grown in popularity in many places in the world.
What has happened? What can be done to advance an alternative course? How do we advance our call for urgently-needed radical transformation while the space for democratic and extra-parliamentary progress appears to be closing? Feel free to read & share the call for papers here.