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The State We're In : Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles / ed. by Henrietta L. Moore, Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; 3Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332241
  • 9781785332258
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 23
LOC classification:
  • JC423
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: When Democracy ‘Goes Wrong’ -- 1 After (?) Democracy: Time, Space and Affect in Peruvian Political Imaginaries -- 2 Democracy and the Ethical Imagination -- 3 Why Indonesians Turn Against Democracy -- 4 Opposition and Group Formation: Authoritarianism Yesterday and Today -- 5 Rejecting or Remaking Democratic Practices? Experiences during Times of Crisis in Italy -- 6 ‘The People’ and Political Opposition in Post-democracy: Reflections on the Hollowing of Democracy in Greece and Europe -- 7 Debt Society Consolidated? Post-democratic Subjectivity and its Discontents -- 8 Politics after Democracy Experiments in Horizontality -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: When Democracy ‘Goes Wrong’ -- 1 After (?) Democracy: Time, Space and Affect in Peruvian Political Imaginaries -- 2 Democracy and the Ethical Imagination -- 3 Why Indonesians Turn Against Democracy -- 4 Opposition and Group Formation: Authoritarianism Yesterday and Today -- 5 Rejecting or Remaking Democratic Practices? Experiences during Times of Crisis in Italy -- 6 ‘The People’ and Political Opposition in Post-democracy: Reflections on the Hollowing of Democracy in Greece and Europe -- 7 Debt Society Consolidated? Post-democratic Subjectivity and its Discontents -- 8 Politics after Democracy Experiments in Horizontality -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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