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.

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

“[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