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What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality, and exploring its relevance to countries ranging from Kenya to Peru, The State We’re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
“[This volume] successfully demonstrates that, globally, democracy has “systematically maintained inequality”, and that attention must be served to the current inadequacies in the execution of this theoretical concept. This book is appropriate for students and academics in the fields of political science, anthropology, and sociology.” · International Social Science Review
“This book is a strong contribution targeted at a much needed re-consideration of democracy as a concept and a practice in a world of porous boundaries, which exposes people in societies to the often hegemonic imposition of extra-territorial actors.” · Harald Wydra, Cambridge University
Joanna Cook is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking (Manchester University Press, 2015).
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: When Democracy ‘Goes Wrong’
Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long, and Henrietta L. Moore
Chapter 1. After (?) Democracy: Time, Space and Affect in Peruvian Political Imaginaries
David Nugent
Chapter 2. Democracy and the Ethical Imagination
Henrietta L. Moore
Chapter 3. Why Indonesians Turn Against Democracy
Nicholas J. Long
Chapter 4. Opposition and Group Formation: Authoritarianism Yesterday and Today
John Borneman
Chapter 5. Rejecting or Remaking Democratic Practices? Experiences during Times of Crisis in Italy
Jan-Jonathan Bock
Chapter 6. ‘The People’ and Political Opposition in Post-democracy: Reflections on the Hollowing of Democracy in Greece and Europe
Giorgos Katsambekis
Chapter 7. Debt Society Consolidated? Post-democratic Subjectivity and its Discontents
Yannis Stavrakakis
Chapter 8. Politics After Democracy: Experiments in Horizontality
Marianne Maeckelbergh
Notes on Contributors
Index