https://theloop.ecpr.eu/democracys-total-texture-and-the-search-for-its-narrative-truth/
In the essay linked above, Simone Belko directs our attention to the more grass-roots and bottom-up, or community-based and participatory, approaches to establishing knowledges and practices on/of/for/by/from democracy.
Whilst calls like these are on the rise they are still, in my esteem, unfortunately in the minority within a field of research that some still characterize as essentially elitist and non-transdisciplinary. Democratic theory is, most assuredly and irrevocably, trans-disciplinary - that much is demonstrated by the literature on theories of democracy. So the elitists quickly lose that claim.
Belko reminds us that we need to continue changing the ways we, both academics and practitioners work, so that we can demonstrate that the elitists are also wrong in their claim that democratic theory is technocratic/expertocratic work. As Belko urges: "We must take into account the unique creative power for change in each individual." Or as David Beetham has argued for a long time: every person has the capacity to understand, practice, and contribute to democracy.
So if you were to study democracy in a non-elitist way - how would you do it?
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/democracys-total-texture-and-the-search-for-its-narrative-truth/
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