Tetsuki Tamura invokes the imagery of "democracy in and/or on unlikely places" in his essay here: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/why-concept-and-data-collection-matter/
For my own part, I've followed others (often from novels & short stories) in thinking about democracy of the moon, inter-cellular democracy (as in the case of jellyfish), democratic practices in animal societies/groups, and so on.
Andre Bachtiger and his colleagues in Stuttgart are, for example, theorising "democracy on Mars" and, of course, there have been many science fiction writers who have portrayed different sorts of democratic possibilities among extra-terrestrial life.
For Tamura, he gives the example of democracy in the family. It's an unlikely place to think about democracy for democratic theorists, conventionally speaking, as the term "democracy" often parses to political locations or the political/public sphere - not the private one.
What is an unlikely place of democracy in your opinion? Or perhaps you know of a few!? Please list them here!
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/why-concept-and-data-collection-matter/
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