An eDossier by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS), a member organisation of transform! europe.
Does the pandemic state of exception pave the way for further undemocratization — and if so, is this process happening on a global scale, or are there meaningful differences between regional developments? Are there identifiable patterns regarding a specifically authoritarian-populist, way of dealing with the pandemic and the resulting social and economic crisis? What is, in short, the specifically authoritarian dimension of the world’s responses to the pandemic?
Table of Contents
- Authoritarianism, Crisis, and Solidarity in the Time of COVID-19: Global Perspectives from the South, by the IRGAC-Editorial Commitee
Latin America
- COVID as the (Second) Death of Neoliberalism?, by Pedro Salgado
- What does authoritarianism mean in times of coronavirus?, by Gustavo Robles
- Latin America in a Pandemic: Rights, Authoritarianism, and Conservatism, by Ailynn Torres Santana
- The Platform Capitalist Pandemic. An introductory inquiry into the Brazilian neoliberal management of uberization during the COVID-19 lockdown, by Fabio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco
- Living (and Working) in Pandemic Times. Labour, Care Work, and Struggles in, Against, and Beyond the (Capitalist) Pandemic, by Mariano Féliz
- Institutional Violence in the Time of Coronavirus: Argentina and its Democratic Deficit, by Julieta Mira
- Coronacrisis. The historical conjuncture to eradicate “development”, by Inés Durán Matute
- Afraid to #StayAtHome: Bolsonaro’s mobilization of fear during the pandemic, by Sabrina Fernandes
Asia
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the infrastructure of hate in India, by Fathima Nizaruddin
- Revisiting the Panopticon and the Synopticon: An inquiry into the naturalisation of totalitarian surveillance in the name of the COVID-19 pandemic, by Gopal Krishna
- Myanmar: Media Fragility and Space for Authoritarianism during COVID-19, by Nwet Kay Khine
- Unravelling Duterte’s Iron Hand in the Time of COVID-19, by Verna Viajar
- Fragmentary Governance of the Coronavirus Crisis in Turkey and Contradictions of the AKP Regime, by Ülker Sözen
Africa
- Confronting Corporate-Driven Food Systems in the Time of COVID-19: Contradictions and Potential in South Africa’s Civil Society, by Boaventura Monjane
Originally published on the website of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS)