Dr. Maria Josua

This presentation explored courts in Tunisia as sites of judicial repression in the autocratic phase during the late Ben Ali era.

GIGA Event GIGA, Hamburg: 09/06/2022 - 10/06/2022 Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

On 9–10 June 2022, a research workshop brought together scholars working on the nexus of legitimation, protest, and repression in autocracies. The workshop was held in the context of the German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded research project “Justifying Repression in Authoritarian Regimes of the Arab World: Official Framing and Target Audiences,” directed by Dr. Maria Josua. At the workshop, cooperation partners and other colleagues working on these topics presented their ongoing research and discussed preliminary findings of the project.

Maria Josua and Alexander Dukalskis directed a virtual workshop on "Marketing Authoritarian Practices at Home and Abroad" as part of the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2022 held in Edinburgh and online.

How do autocrats communicate everyday acts of repression? This paper introduces and analyses a novel dataset on justifications for incidents of repression in Morocco and Tunisia during the years 2000–2010, showing that the chosen forms thereof influence how officials subsequently talk about them.

This novel event dataset contains information on 439 repressive incidents in Morocco and Tunisia from 2000-2010. It disaggregates various dimensions of repression and its justification. The JuRI dataset is based on a compilation of publicly available human rights reports.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2438

This presentation explored courts in Tunisia as sites of judicial repression in the autocratic phase during the late Ben Ali era.

GIGA Event GIGA, Hamburg: 09/06/2022 - 10/06/2022 Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

On 9–10 June 2022, a research workshop brought together scholars working on the nexus of legitimation, protest, and repression in autocracies. The workshop was held in the context of the German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded research project “Justifying Repression in Authoritarian Regimes of the Arab World: Official Framing and Target Audiences,” directed by Dr. Maria Josua. At the workshop, cooperation partners and other colleagues working on these topics presented their ongoing research and discussed preliminary findings of the project.

Maria Josua and Alexander Dukalskis directed a virtual workshop on "Marketing Authoritarian Practices at Home and Abroad" as part of the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2022 held in Edinburgh and online.