La révolution au pluriel. Pour une historiographie de la question messaliste by Nedjib Sidi Moussa

“…The text deals more particularly with the congress of Hornu to show the determinist character of the first narratives before turning toward a growing Messalist reappropriation which has accompanied the movement against authoritarianism in Algeria as well as the recent trend of literary popularization through the example of Mohammed Benchicou’s last novel.…”
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Johannesburg, Ontario: Street Naming Strategies and the Decolonised City to Com by Melissa Levin

“…The shifting balance of forces at the time meant that the global appetite for authoritarianism was passing as the horizon of possibility suggested by socialism was fading. …”
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Au-delà de la ¡ Revolución ! by Julien Rebotier

“…The worrisome drift of authoritarianism is still potential.…”
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Uczenie się demokracji od dzieciństwa – kaprys czy potrzeba współczesności? by Agnieszka Olczak

“…Thus, the article raises the question of whether teaching children democracy, liberation behaviour, participation, but also responsibility, is a fantasy, a fiction, or a whim, which teachers and researchers who seek, and parents who reject authoritarianism are often accused of, or whether it is a necessity of the modern times and an expression of an awareness that it is essential wisely to prepare the younger generation for life in contemporary society. …”
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Cywilizacyjny wymiar inwazji Federacji Rosyjskiej na Ukrainę by Adam Zamojski

“…Koneczny believed that under the influence of the Asiatic borrowings, Moscow became a representative of the Turanian model of civilization, within which authoritarianism reigns and power is based on fear and violence. …”
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Roots of 20th-Century Western Counterculture: From Guillem Rovirosa’s Catalonia to Its Antipode by José Andrés-Gallego

“…Quite the contrary, from Europe to the Far East, many people underwent similar experiences, usually of a countercultural nature and often linked to the idea of anti-authoritarianism and to its possible religious foundations.…”
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O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto by Roberto Vecchi

“…The article approaches the aporetic topic of the forced disappearance in the context of military authoritarianism in Brazil, primarily setting the problematic character of the restitution in the case of the political “desaparecidos” deriving from the impossibility of the legal category of “restitutio ad integrum”. …”
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Liberative Black theology: a case study of race in theological education by M. Naidoo

“…However, Christian organisations are structured in patriarchal and hierarchical ways with their authoritarianism; hence, the roots of oppression lie deeper. …”
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Cinquante ans depuis la révolution des œillets by Lincoln Secco, Osvaldo Coggiola

“…The issues that drove it were common to post-war European societies: decolonization, political democracy (fight against authoritarianism and dictatorships), intensification of class clashes. …”
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Policy change or tactical retreat? by Wishes Tendayi Mututwa, Brenda Mututwa, Mlondolozi Ndlovu

“…It thus appears that a dual legacy of democracy and media authoritarianism still exists in the post-Mugabe administration, which presents itself as the “new dispensation”. …”
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The Role of Information War in the Strengthening of Stereotypes about Russia in the Western Political Space by Irina Milutinović, Aleksandar Gajić

“…These stereotypes mostly perceive Russia and its population through collectivism, authoritarianism and impulsiveness. Media and information policies play an indispensable role in shaping stereotypes in the modern and postmodern era. …”
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Bush versus Bin Laden in Time by Johann de Wet

“…It was found that the cultural code translates into: the United States and the Western World are the beacons of democracy and freedom, while Islam (more specifically Muslim fundamentalists) represents authoritarianism, repression and bondage. It appears that Time in its commentary role in the aftermath of the attacks was an able and willing partner of the United States administration in predominantly naming the world along American lines, and attempting through words to impose the named world on adversaries. …”
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A Demand for Narrative: Reading Sabahattin Ali's Novel Kuyucaklı Yusuf as a Quest for Identity by Murat Baran Akkuş

“…However, the novel remained incomplete due to Ali's murder in 1948 amid a rising tide of authoritarianism and nationalism that he consistently critiqued. …”
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Three Waves of Populism in Latin America by O. V. Varentsova

“…Election of left populist leaders may lead to institutional deadlock, uneven playing field and transition to competitive authoritarianism.…”
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The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day by Claire Wrobel

“…Recent dystopias however never lose sight of the political, whether in the new forms state authoritarianism may take or in the deadly effects of fragmented plutocracies.…”
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Revisiting Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life – A Critical Review by Md. Lab Hossain, Mahmuda Akter

“…Furthermore, his book insight into sovereignty, biopolitics, and exclusion are crucial for understanding contemporary issues likes state of exception, state surveillance, migration crises, human rights violations, and democratic erosion, especially in an era of rising political instability and authoritarianism, urging a rethinking of power structures and inclusion. …”
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The Chilean Model Confronting Expectations of Social Justice by L. V. Diyakova

“…The system of ‘elite compromises’, which provided a political basis for the transition from authoritarianism to democracy, also became an object of harsh criticism.The paper shows the specifics of the Chilean model in historical retrospect, identifies contradictions and issues that have triggered a socio-political conflict, particularly the rise of mass social expectations, strengthened by the reforms of the second government of M. …”
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Transimperial Sociology: A Peripheral Dictatorship at the Centre of Late Colonial Social-Scientific Cooperation Between Empires by Ágoas Frederico

“…Additionally, it serves as a case study in the historical sociology of knowledge, expanding on scholarship that has explored the intersection of authoritarianism and imperialism in the natural sciences but not in the social sciences. …”
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It is not just your opinion. Gender equity endorsement of Latin American students and their peers at school by Natalia López-Hornickel, Diego Carrasco, Siugmin Lay, Ernesto Treviño

“…Findings highlight the pivotal influence of civic knowledge and open classroom discussions as protective factors against authoritarian beliefs, which are negatively associated with gender equity support at both individual and contextual levels. …”
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Higher Education and the Politics of the Radical Imagination by Henry A Giroux

“…As an example of both the rise of authoritarianism and the challenge it poses to higher education, I focus on not only the election and presidency of Donald Trump but also an emboldened culture of manufactured illiteracy that exhibits a disdain for any notion of education wedded to the pursuit of the truth, science, and the public good. …”
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