Forging Authoritarian Consensus

Moyukh Chatterjee is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities (Duke University Press, 2023). His work on law, violence and justice has appeared in the American Ethnologist, Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, and the Economic and Political Weekly.

Francis Cody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies. He is the author of The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization (Chicago 2023).

Susan Gal is Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. She writes about the political economy of language, gendered language use, translation, and the semiotics of far-right political discourses in Europe. 

Andrew Graan is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist with interests in mass media, political language and performances, publics and publicity, the social life of projects, nation branding, international intervention, and global governance in Macedonia, the Balkans, and the European Union.

Douglas Holmes is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. For many years Holmes has investigated the emergence of contemporary fascism across Europe, a fascism that unfolds in our midst, at “eye-level.” Broadly, his work addresses how and why the most discredited ideas and sensibilities of the modern era—ideas that yielded the indelible horrors of the twentieth century—have become persuasive, compelling even, in the new century. 

Agnieszka Pasieka is a sociocultural anthropologist. Her work focuses on political mobilization, activism and social movements, and explores how different social actors mobilize to address inequality and power hierarchies and what kind of alternative world they envision. She is author of ‘Hierarchy and pluralism: living religious difference in Catholic Poland” (Palgrave 2015) and “Living right: politics, morality and far-right youth activism in contemporary Europe” (Princeton University Press 2024).

Nitzan Shoshan is a sociocultural anthropologist and a professor in the Centro de Estudios Sociológicos at El Colegio de México. His work has focused on nationalism and the far-right in Germany and elsewhere and on urban conflicts in Berlin and Mexico City.

Catherine Tebaldi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg, Culture and Computation Lab.  Her research on language, gender and reactionary digital cultures has appeared in press from Newsweek to Cosmopolitan as well as in academic journals such as Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Information Communication & Society, Gender & Language,  Language in Society. Most recently, she has co-edited a January 2025 special issue of the Berkeley Journal of Right-Wing Studies on gender, sexuality and the sociolinguistics of the (far) right.

Kathryn Woolard is a professor emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She works on language ideology, ethnicity, and political discourse in Catalonia, Spain, and the U.S., and is author of, among other works, Singular and Plural; Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia.