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 Were Inis a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
Joanna Cookis a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London. She is the author ofMeditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life(Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-editor ofDetachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking(Manchester University Press, 2015).
Henrietta L. Mooreis 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 isStill Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions(Polity Press, 2011).
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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 RemakilÓ3
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