Tag Archives: Democracy
ATC: On Solidarity: Solidarity and Democracy: Lessons from Social Activism Under Austerity in the UK
Shana Cohen
The normalization of far-right politics and racist rhetoric in Europe and the US has led, unsurprisingly, to the rapid growth of a literature examining the potential return of fascism and the concomitant decline of democracy (e.g. Albright (2018); Temelkuran (2019); Bonikowski (2017); Rooduijn (2017); Inglehart and Norris (2016); Albertazzi and McDonnell (2015, 2008); Moffit (2016); MuddeRead more
Insights: Where is Democracy in India? Asking Anthropological Theory to Open Its Doors
Veena Das
A recurring question that haunts theories of democracy is: how has torture become part of routine police procedure in these societies (Rejali, 2007)? It is a question that troubles the novels of J. M. Coetzee, especially Waiting for the Barbarians (1982) and Diary of a Bad Year (2007), and makes for stunning reading in GuantanamoRead more