elections – Page 6 – Aufhebunga Bunga

/61/ Making Plans for Naija ft. Sa’eed Husaini

by Alex__1789February 14, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rxiaz-a7c66f On Nigeria's elections. Sa'eed Husaini fills us in on the stakes of this election. President Buhari dismissed the country's top judge weeks before the election, but the former military dictator is meant to be an anti-corruption figure. His main…

/51/ Oh, Brazil: What Now?

by Alex__1789October 31, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7gtt8-9deaf4 In which we update the latest from Brazil, post-election. What will Bolsonaro's government look like? We plot best & worst case scenarios and discuss how bad this really is (really, really bad). And is "fascism" the correct term to…

/48/ Ultra-Politics in Brazil ft. Sabrina Fernandes

by Alex__1789October 3, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ikn28-9b76fc In which we preview Brazil's election in which democracy itself is at stake. Who is Bolsonaro and why should Bolsonaro be understood as a neofascist? We discuss the #EleNão feminist resistance and the backdrop of 'antipetismo'. How has the…

/42/ Erdogan Ever-Present? ft. Yasemin Yilmaz

by Alex__1789July 4, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3y3v-948e65 In which we survey Turkey's election results in light of five years of tumult - Gezi, economic downturn, terrorist attacks, Syrian war, coup, repression. Are cracks beginning to show for Erdogan? He teamed up with ultranationalists, while opposition secularists and Islamists…

/41/ The Colombian Exception ft. Pablo Uribe

by Alex__1789June 27, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wmeej-9407ec In which we discuss how the Right won this month's election -- in a country that has never seen the Left in power. Is Colombia an exception? The civil war there feels like part of the Cold War that…

/33/ Hungary’s Illiberal Democracy ft. Tamas Gerocs

by Alex__1789April 10, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-am99u-8ef651 In which we unpick another Fidesz's victory and ask whether neoliberalism in an nationalist-authoritarian shell is the future

/30/ Italy: Country of the Future? ft. David Broder

by Alex__1789February 28, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xqx9g-8b642c In which we debate the upcoming Italian elections. Also corruption, bunga bunga, communism, migrants, fascism, & Europe. In which we discuss the Oscar nominees. Also lame battles over representation & why hopelessness has replaced catastrophism.

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