the use of both old and new media in military-style strategies of deception. To maintain a semblance of democracy, the ruling party combines top-down governance and practices of co-opting anti-regime actors with techniques taken from television, advertising, PR and increasingly the internet in order to generate a managed debate.

For the foundational economy to survive and thrive, what is required beyond the political economy of national developmentalism is a strategy to take on the monopoly capitalism and the rentier economy.

Despite their differences, liberal and authoritarian ideologies end up converging around forms of capitalism that divide societies into plutocratic elites and a proletarianized populace – with the middle and working classes ever more eroded.

The illusion of infinite consumer choice serves to conceal from view the erosion of political, civic and human rights.

The practice of lived fraternity can shape a politics of affective attachment to people, place and purpose.

The third development is a stronger emphasis on bounded polities and national sovereignty. Free movement of capital has weakened the power of labour while the free movement of people without national economic development has put pressures on wages and hit workers.

Key to this conception of politics is the idea that we are embodied beings who flourish when we are embedded in interpersonal relationships and institutions giving us meaning as well as agency. Such a politics is postliberal and communitarian – one that avoids the excesses of liberalism without succumbing to the errors of populism or the oligarchic

politics of place has to recognize just how important the land is to people’s affection for their locality and their attachment to their country.

Common to these very diverse traditions is the idea that politics is not a utilitarian science of maximizing the happiness of the greatest number but rather a practice of ethical judgement for the flourishing of all persons as they are in their families, localities and workplaces.