Animation
Our short animation based on the research project, made by Public Cinema, is now online:
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UvA’ers maken strip over onderzoek doen in autoritaire landen.
Folia, the weekly magazine of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS/HvA), wrote an article (in Dutch) about our comic strip series that has been created for the promotion of our new book: ‘Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field.’
‘Als onderzoeker in een land met een autoritair regime kun je het idee hebben dat je als spion wordt gezien en in de gaten wordt gehouden. Acht sociale wetenschappers van de UvA hebben een boek met bijbehorende strips gemaakt over hun ervaringen in het onderzoeksveld om deze gevoelens meer bespreekbaar te maken. ‘We willen een taboe doorbreken.’
Lees de hele bijdrage op de website van Folia.
The Freedom Lecture: Anabel Hernandez
PHD student Jos Bartman was invited to join the Freedom Lecture at De Balie in Amsterdam. Watch the video.
Anabel Hernandez gave the 20th Freedom Lecture in De Balie. Hernandez is a journalist and writer, who had an international breakthrough with the book Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers. Anabel Hernandez spoke in De Balie on the importance of freedom of press, the way in which drugs cartels operate and the many sacrafices she had to make in order to be free and safe and to continue her work as a journalist.
Radio interview: persvrijheid in Mexico
Dit is de Wereld: Persvrijheid in Mexico
NPO 1, dinsdag 23 mei 2017, 05:06 uur
Mexico. Officieel is het land een democratie. Voor velen hoort er in een goed werkende democratie persvrijheid te zijn. Toch worden er in Mexico regelmatig journalisten vermoord, zoals Javier Valdez vorige week. Een gesprek met Jos Bartman, hij is Mexico-deskundige.
Upcoming Lecture: Sponsoring student mobility as a source of authoritarian stability.
Sponsoring student mobility as a source of authoritarian stability: the case of Kazakhstan
Asia Updates Series
Why should an authoritarian regime run the risk of sending students abroad and letting them back with a potentially destabilizing political baggage? Adele Del Sordi (UvA) discusses how contemporary authoritarian regimes manage external influences and in some cases turn them effectively into a source of political stability. She questions the assumption that globalization is bringing only challenges to autocracies. (more…)
Book Launch: Dictators Without Borders: Global aspects of national governance in Central Asia
Thursday 11th May 2017, 10.00 – 12.00
Dr John Heathershaw, University of Exeter
Following independence from the Soviet Union, Central Asia’s authoritarian states have consolidated in an era of liberal globalization. The region bears witness to these contrasts. (more…)
Guest Lecture: Erdogan and the shift toward autocracy in Turkey
Tuesday 9th May 2017, 16.00 – 18.00
How do interpret the result of the recent referendum in Turkey? Joost Lagendijk, former politician for political party GroenLinks in the European Parliament and Turkey expert, will zoom in on recent political trends towards Turkish authoritarianism. (more…)
Opinion piece: Doing it the Malaysian way
KRIS RUIJGROK
Ever since the wake-up call of 2008, and with more and more Malaysians online, the ruling coalition is well aware that cyberspace is an important battleground, but chooses its battles. PHD student Kris Ruijgrok wrote an opinion piece at openDemocray about the digital battles in Malaysia. Read the article here.
Seminar: The subnational state in Latin America
Studies about the uneven presence and performance of state institutions within Latin America have flourished since the adoption of decentralization measures across the region. However, systematic comparisons across states are relatively absent. This workshop (more…)
New publication: ‘From the web to the streets: internet and protests under authoritarian regimes.’
By Kris Ruijrok.
The idea of internet as a liberation technology seems to have long gone. Whereas just after the Arab Spring many commentators spoke about ‘Facebook-protests’ and ‘Twitter-revolutions’, this time around we mainly hear about how smart authoritarian states have become in their online censorship, surveillance and internet-propaganda. (more…)