Grieving Democracy

Tambakaki, P. 2025. Forthcoming. Grieving Democracy. Edinburgh University Press.

TitleGrieving Democracy
AuthorsTambakaki, P.
Abstract

The book proposes that loss of affect for liberal democracy is a key problem today, in need of closer analysis. Manifested in an unprecedented suspicion of democratic governments, a readiness to elect authoritarian rulers, and a rise in reactionary politics, loss of affect pertains to the way that citizens experience democracy – their growing disinvestment from the democratic form of rule. It raises worrying questions about the survival of democratic values into the twenty-first century, that democratic theorists often tend to either ignore or exaggerate. To navigate these questions, the book argues that grief can be a useful political resource. Understood as a response to loss, grief engages the imagination, opening the way to another, perhaps more caring, experience of democracy. To illuminate the nature of this experience, the book draws on feminist scholarship and work on contemporary culture, where grief and affect intersect.

KeywordsMourning/grief
Disinvestment
Care
Democratic crisis
Disaffection
Imagination
Year2025
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
Publication dates
Published2025
Edition1st
ISBN9781399538657
9781399538688
9781399538671

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