What gives life to democracy? Living Democracy explores the work of political representation in all its messy entanglements, including when the threads that hold it together start to break apart. 

In 2019 a team of ethnographers – anthropologists, political scientists, communications scholars, filmmakers, and photographers – started a conversation about the relationship between politicians and those they claim to represent in Brazil, Ethiopia, Fiji, India, the US, and the UK.  

This book presents the results of the Ethnographies of Parliaments, Politicians and People project. In these open-ended conversations, creative collaborations and accounts from the political frontline, we see democracy come alive.