The Post-Authoritarian Politics of Agrarian and Forest Reform in Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McCarthy ◽  
Moira Moeliono
Keyword(s):  
Authoritarian Politics

“It all boils down to a question of words”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McNaughton
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Authoritarian Politics ◽  
Hayden White

The Unnamable confronts inherited narrative and linguistic forms with the incommensurability of recent genocide. Initially, the book performs this inadequacy by confronting novel tropes with distorted images cribbed from memoirs of Mauthausen concentration camp. Then it updates surrealist treatments of Parisian abattoirs, asking whether industrialized slaughter is also the sign and fulfillment of modern genocide. The Unnamable also confuses literary production and the biopolitical aspirations of authoritarian politics: Beckett’s narrator writes from a conviction that language can become wholly performative and has the capacity to incarnate and to kill. The narrator attempts to deconstruct language, but doing so ironically transcends literary and philosophical problems to reveal historiographical problems as well, the missing voices of those killed without trace. The chapter ends with a theoretical coda that productively contextualizes Beckett’s strategy with historiographical debate about narrative and genocide by Paul Ricoeur, Giorgio Agamben, Hayden White, and others.

The Technological State in Indonesia: The Co-constitution of High Technology and Authoritarian Politics

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Sulfikar Amir
Keyword(s):  
High Technology ◽  
Authoritarian Politics

What Can Comparative Authoritarianism Tell Us About China Under Xi Jinping (and Vice Versa)?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
HANS H. TUNG ◽  
WEN-CHIN WU
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Regime Stability ◽  
Conceptual Innovation ◽  
Authoritarian Politics ◽  
Autocratic Politics

This paper evaluates the progress and impact of the literature on comparative authoritarianism, showing not only how its development over the previous two decades can help us understand China’s authoritarian politics better, but also how the latter can move the former forward. We focus on two important topic areas in the literature: authoritarian power-sharing and autocratic politics of information (e.g., partial media freedom and government censorship). For the first topic, we shall review the literature on the authoritarian power-sharing between dictators and their allies and explicate how this conceptual innovation helps us understand the institutional foundation of China’s regime stability and phenomenal economic performance before Xi Jinping. The analysis then provides us a baseline for assessing China’s economic and political future under Xi Jinping given his clear departure from the pre-existing power-sharing framework. Finally, this paper also assesses the relevance of the literature on authoritarian politics of information to the Chinese context. In sum, we not only emphasize the conceptual contributions of the literature of comparative authoritarianism to the field of Chinese politics, but also identify lacunae in the current literature and avenues for future research that post-Xi political developments have made visible to us.

The Revival of Authoritarian Politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 80-114
Author(s):  
Carl Boggs
Keyword(s):  
Authoritarian Politics

Indigenization, the State Bourgeoisie and Neo-authoritarian Politics

2003 ◽  
pp. 15-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Raftopoulos ◽  
Daniel Compagnon
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Authoritarian Politics
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