Explanations for the rise of illiberal political movements in West have focused upon respective roles economic grievances and “cultural backlash.” However, many “authoritarian populist” leaders outside West—from Rodrigo Duterte Philippines to Vladimir Putin Russia Narendra Modi India—derive their legitimacy neither from promises nor social conservativism alone, but also a third commitment: rest...

The paper shows how a state controlled religious institution used religion, fear, trauma, insecurity, grievances, and conspiracy theories to dehumanise community, presented it as an existential threat the nation, global community of believers by investigating case Turkey’s Directorate Religious Affairs’ (the Diyanet) securitizing role under authoritarian Islamist Erdo?anist rule. article provid...

This paper examines the resistance rhetoric that media workers use to publicly organize trade unions online in a social movement genre of strategic communication activism: critical manifesto. The provides analysis rhetorical strategy, form, and devices 30 Why We’ve Organized statements Writers Guild America, East as case study labor organization’s rhetoric. Through promulgation reproduce modify...

This article analyses a campaign urging British university to re-establish in-house cleaning services after years of outsourcing. The small independent union leading the began from an extremely low level power resources and managed build enough associational societal win dispute on cleaners’ working conditions. study is based participant observation union’s activities, document analysis intervi...

In order to provide a counter-history the predominate, monochromatic, and polarizing historiography of Martial Law in Philippines, this article investigates use testimonial narratives from Muslim Tausug witnesses survivors during early years militarization Sulu province southern Philippines (1972–1974). It focuses on war violence which have been silenced subjugated, as well role identities cult...

The year 1999 marks a remarkable turnaround in Nigeria’s history and bid for global reckoning as a democratic nation having grappled with a sustained military rule for many decades after her independence. However, with the country’s return to democratic rule, many teething problems evolved which of course is not strange to young and emerging democracies such as Nigeria’s particularly after many...

Between 2010 and 2015, as Myanmar transitioned from authoritarian rule to a more liberal democratic state, its Muslim population increasingly faced hate speech violence. This article goes beyond analyses that regard the growing anti-Muslim sentiment consequence of liberalized media environment, enabling people voice long-standing grievances prejudice. Rather, notion “Muslim threat” Myanmar’s Bu...

Mass protests frequently occur in electoral autocracies. However, the opposite is true Turkey, despite mounting grievances and a strong opposition presence with institutional resources. We argue that competitive authoritarian regimes, subset of autocracies, may dampen mass protests, allowing an opportunity to defeat incumbents through elections. Studying Turkey’s main party, we identify three m...