Feminist perspectives on current processes of authoritarianisation and fascisation

The lecture analyses current right-wing authoritarian politics as processes of violent destruction of life and the world. Based on social-theoretical, feminist-intersectional perspectives, it will be argued that current processes of authoritarianisation and fascisation are not to be understood solely as institutional shifts, but as comprehensive attacks on social reproduction relations, bodies, relationships and livelihoods. The right-wing authoritarian hegemony project operates via the actualisation of gendered, colonial and capitalist forms of violence, which it simultaneously disguises by recourse to a supposedly "natural" political order.

In a first step, the lecture will therefore explain why attacks on feminist, queer and trans* politics and ways of life are so central to current processes of authoritarianisation and fascisation and how a violent reference to the world unfolds within them. In a second step, the question of how these right-wing authoritarian policies of violence can be countered by emancipatory policies of care will be discussed from a feminist perspective.

Participation

The lecture will take place online via Zoom and is open to all interested parties.

Note for students: All events of the AK Gender are part of the GSiK programme (Global Systems and intercultural Competence).

Further information

To the Research Group on Gender