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.
Table of Content
List of figures
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
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).
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