🎙️ Season 2 of This Authoritarian Life continues at another frontline: the university — where political repression and economic precarity work together to silence critical voices and disempower those who produce knowledge.

In this episode, we speak with Aslı Vatansever — a sociologist of work who was dismissed from her position in Istanbul after signing the 'Academics for Peace' petition and now lives and works in Berlin, where she wrote At the Margins of Academia: Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity.

• Why are precarity and repression "two sides of the same coin" — and how do they produce hopelessness and self-censorship?
• What happened to Turkish academics who signed the Peace Petition — and why did the German response to the university protests against Israel's war in Gaza feel like déjà vu?
• How do scholarships supporting 'scholars at risk' work as a type of stigma and trap?

🎧 To find out, tune into This Authoritarian Life, Season 2, Episode 4 — Unsafe Positions: How Precarity and Repression Silence the University, with Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren.

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