Our starting position in the project is that knowledge on democratic societies emerges through the core idea that democracy is strengthened inter-generationally through practices and encounters of citizens in everyday life.
From this view of democracy as an active condition, Swedish democracy is the object of study. This key stance of the research contributes to novel new knowledge that emerges from communities whose views, perspectives and practices of democracy are not always visible and accounted for in the dominant political narratives and practices.
The research works with transdisciplinary methods, including ethnographic, artistic and Indigenous methods. The new knowledge from this research aims to show the ways in which democracy is made and unmade in the public sphere: through forms of speech, acts of listening, and moments of deliberation around complex and contested everyday realities.