State We're In

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).

“[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

• 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