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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.
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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
About the author
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).
Nicholas J. Long is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Being Malay in Indonesia: Histories Hopes and Citizenship in the Riau Archipelago (NUS, NIAS, and University of Hawai’i Press, 2013) and co-editor with Henrietta L. Moore of Sociality: New Directions (Berghahn, 2012) and The Social Life of Achievement (Berghahn, 2013).
Henrietta L. Moore is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity at UCL, where she also holds the Chair in Culture, Philosophy and Design. Her most recent monograph is Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions (Polity Press, 2011).
