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Hosted by Kristóf Szombati & Erdem Evren · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 14 episodes
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This Authoritarian Life explores how people experience, adapt to, and resist authoritarian politics in their everyday lives. Each month, anthropologists Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren speak with guests from around the world to understand what authoritarianism looks like up close — and how it can be contested. Group winner of the 2025 New Directions Award of the American Anthropological Association , TAL combines ethnographic insight with accessible storytelling to reveal the textures of life under authoritarian stress. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook : www.instagram.com/this_authoritarian_life www.facebook.com/thisauthoritarianlife
Kristóf Szombati & Erdem Evren hosts This Authoritarian Life, a society show with 14 episodes published.
🎙️ Our "Turning Points" season pivots from the dramatic electoral shifts in Hungary to a sudden constitutional crisis in Turkey. In an unprecedented move, a regional court has annulled the 2023 congress of the main oppo
🎙️ Our Hungary election mini-series continues in the wake of a seismic result: Péter Magyar's Tisza party swept Fidesz from power with a two-thirds supermajority, ending sixteen years of Viktor Orbán's rule. In this epi
🎙️ Our Hungary election mini-series begins nine days before the April 12 vote. In this episode, Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren discuss what is actually at stake in Hungary's election — beyond the question of whether V
🎙️ Season 2 of This Authoritarian Life continues at another frontline: policing as a site of concentrated state violence and neoliberal austerity management. In this episode, we speak with Alex Vitale — Professor of Soc
🎙️ Season 2 of This Authoritarian Life continues at another frontline: the university — where political repression and economic precarity work together to silence critical voices and disempower those who produce knowled
🎙️ Season 2 of This Authoritarian Life continues at another frontline: culture — where authoritarian power doesn’t just silence dissent, but reshapes the institutions that decide what gets staged, funded, and celebrated
🎙️ Season 2 of This Authoritarian Life continues one another urgent frontline: Serbia. In this episode, we speak with activist-journalists Anastazija Govedarica Antanasijević and Iskra Krstić about the student-led upris
🎙️ Season 2 of This Authoritarian Life begins at one of today’s most tragic frontlines: Gaza. In this episode, we talk with Guy Shalev , anthropologist and executive director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel , abou
In this sixth episode of This Authoritarian Life we look at how language is used to entrench authoritarian power. Authoritarian leaders have long realized the power of propaganda, deploying radio, television and more rec
In this fifth episode of This Authoritarian Life we continue to investigate the impact of war on contemporary politics. We look at the case of Russia where our guest Arkadij Lomonosov has until recently worked as a journ
In this fourth episode of This Authoritarian Life we focus on the destructive dimension of contemporary politics. Looking at the case of Israel and its latest campaign in Gaza, psychoanalyst Iris Hefets reflects on the p
Pursuing our exploration of the ‘Origins’ of authoritarianism, in this third episode of This Authoritarian Life we will continue to focus on the role of the body in authoritarian politics. More specifically, we will turn
Resentment may lay dormant for decades, before suddenly erupting and inundating public life. In this second episode of This Authoritarian Life, we continue to explore the ‘Origins’ of authoritarianism by asking how the p
What drives ordinary people to espouse authoritarian figures? Join us, Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren, as we unravel this question through our personal journeys and anthropological studies in Hungary and Turkey. We kic
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