Online-Read by By Firoozeh Farvadin and Gustavo Robles
https://irgac.org/articles/from-individual-fears-to-collective-cares
from the Website Introduction:
The global financial crisis of 2008 is widely regarded as marking the beginning of the ideological crisis of neoliberalism, a political rationality that dominated the latter decades of the 20th century. Since then, it has become evident that this radicalised version of financialised, precarious, deregulated and profoundly anti-democratic capitalism has lost its legitimacy. The promises of creating efficient democracies, prosperous economies, open societies and happy individuals no longer hold any credibility. Nevertheless, this does not imply that it has lost its status as the primary method of managing states and societies and making our lives more precarious. As the hunter’s wisdom dictates, the wounded animal is always the most perilous.
One of the authors, Firoozeh Farvardin, is part of our online kick-off meeting 12th of May:
Firoozeh Farvardin
Firoozeh Farvardin is a feminist scholar and activist based in Berlin and Vienna. She was born and raised in Iran before moving to Europe. She studied sociology in both Iran and Germany and has actively participated in grassroots movements and initiatives primarily related to feminist and refugee struggles.
Since September 2024, she has worked as a university assistant at the Institute of Political Science (IPW) at the University of Vienna, specializing in politics and gender. Before her current position, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, where she continues to serve as a research associate and collaborates with them. She is also affiliated with the Middle East Research Group (MERGE) at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), where she has been conducting research and teaching since 2015.
Currently, her research and activism concentrate on gender and sexual (counter)strategies and feminist utopianism under authoritarian neoliberalism, particularly focusing on the Global South(s).
Publication relevant for our project:
Firoozeh Farvardin, Gustavo Robles (2025): From (Indivudual) Fears to (Collective) Cares
