State We're In

Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

AvJoanna Cook,Nicholas J. Long

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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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Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785332241

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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 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).

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"[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

Innehållsförteckning

List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: When Democracy 'Goes Wrong'Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long, and Henrietta L. MooreChapter 1. After (?) Democracy: Time, Space and Affect in Peruvian Political ImaginariesDavid NugentChapter 2. Democracy and the Ethical ImaginationHenrietta L. MooreChapter 3. Why Indonesians Turn Against DemocracyNicholas J. LongChapter 4. Opposition and Group Formation: Authoritarianism Yesterday and TodayJohn BornemanChapter 5. Rejecting or Remaking Democratic Practices? Experiences during Times of Crisis in ItalyJan-Jonathan BockChapter 6. `The People' and Political Opposition in Post-democracy: Reflections on the Hollowing of Democracy in Greece and EuropeGiorgos KatsambekisChapter 7. Debt Society Consolidated? Post-democratic Subjectivity and its DiscontentsYannis StavrakakisChapter 8. Politics After Democracy: Experiments in HorizontalityMarianne MaeckelberghNotes on ContributorsIndex