Description:
- Investigates the reasons behind the current disillisionment in democratic statecraft.
- Explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality.
- A must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
Brief description:
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).
Review Quotes:
"[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