How to Lose a Country - The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism

How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don''t march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early-warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to South America, in order to define a global pattern and arm the reader with the tools to root it out. Proposing alternative answers to the pressing - and too often paralysing - poltical questions of our time, Temelkuran explores the insidious ideas at the core of these movements by weaving memoir, history and clear-sighted argument into an urgent and eloquent defence of democracy.

About the author

Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer, political thinker and public speaker whose work has been published worldwide. Her novels, Women Who Blow on Knots and The Time of Mute Swans, have been published in several languages and adapted to the stage. Temelkuran's two political essays, Deep Mountain: Across the Armenian-Turkish Divide and Turkey: The Insane and Melancholy, explore the connection between the personal and political. After she left her country in 2016, Temelkuran began writing in English. Her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism, received international praise. Her second, Together: A Manifesto Against a Heartless World offers 'a way out from the political and moral insanity' that is ushered by the global rise of fascism. Ece Temelkuran has lived in Beirut, Tunis, Oxford, Paris and Zagreb. She is currently based in Berlin and is on the advisory board of Progressive International and DemocracyNext.

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Product details

• Authors: Ece Temelkuran
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.10.2024
• EAN: 9781837263073
• ISBN: 978-1-83726-307-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Canons
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Nationalism, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms