Dear Friends of the GIGA, The WONAGO Lecture Series invites scholars and policymakers to speak on ideas of order prevalent in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. “World Order Narratives of the Global South (WONAGO)” is a joint research project by Universität Hamburg and the GIGA, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. We would like to cordially invite you to the next event of the WONAGO Lecture Series, which will take place on
Monday, 26 June 2023 | 5:15–7:00 p.m. (CEST)
Location: Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (room 118), Hamburg,
and online
For participation, see registration button below. We are honoured to have as our speaker
Prof. Dr. Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) He will share with us his insights on
"Radical Rights in the Global South: Comparisons".
The event will be moderated by Dr. Thiago Prates (Universität Hamburg). Prof. Dr. Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos gives a lecture on a paper with findings of a systematic group effort undertaken by scholars from Turkey, Hungary, India, the Philippines and Brazil to compare radical right governments in those countries. Five cases are discussed: Turkey under Erdogan (assumed office in 2003), Hungary under Orbán (assumed office in 2010), India under Modi (assumed office in 2014); the Philippines under Duterte (2016–2022) and Brazil under Bolsonaro (2019–2022). Initial questions driving the comparison include: how did they come to power? What strategies of legitimation did they employ? What resistances did they face? Similarities and common threads are highlighted aiming to shed light on hatred politics as a global phenomenon but seen from the margins of global capital. It is argued that these regimes enact as cultural wars the dynamics of individualism and competition that preside daily social reproduction, while the policies they implement reinforce these same trends - that is to say, they reinforce the dissolution of social bonds that made the politicization of social resentment feasible in the first place. As the social and cultural dynamics that brought hatred politics to the limelight are reinforced, a dynamic comparable to an autoimmune disease unfolds, making it particularly hard to unseat these regimes once they are in power. The event will be held in English.
Attendance
Join this event either on-site or online. Please do not forget to register.
With best regards,
the organising team at Universität Hamburg and the GIGA
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