[Commlist] New book: Everyday Democracy: Building Resilience Against Polarization and Radicalization

New book
Everyday Democracy: Building Resilience Against Polarization and 
Radicalization


The volume is edited by Pernilla Jonsson Severson and Emma Ricknell and 
published in English by De Gruyter Brill, with a publication/copyright 
year of 2027.

The book is available open access:

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112231791 
<https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112231791>

Table of contents
(https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783112231791/html#contents) 
:

Pernilla Jonsson Severson and Emma Ricknell
Introducing everyday democracy for building resilience against
polarization and radicalization 1

Section I: Grassroots democratic practices

Annika Olofsdotter Bergström and Åsa Ståhl
*Chapter 1 *
Building relationships through participatory budgeting in everyday
democracy 29

Noura K. Assaf, Nancy Kanbar, and Ziad El Sayegh
*Chapter 2 *
Navigating divisions in Lebanon: Grassroots engagement, pathways to
development, and democratic resilience in a pluralistic context 51

Section II: Cultural and media interventions

Ricardo Soares, Pedro Ferreira, and Carla Malafaia
*Chapter 3 *
The tug-of-war of democracy: Political polarization and democratic
resilience in the Twitter/X activity of youth groups 75

Shahriar Khonsari
*Chapter 4 *
Art and activism in Iran: Aesthetic resistance and democratic resilience
in a non-democratic context 105

Ssu-Han Yu
*Chapter 5 *
Everyday strategies to deal with political and media polarization: A
generational perspective in Taiwan 117

Elisa Paz and Pau Lluis
*Chapter 6 *
Politics and popular culture: A comparative analysis of Spanish talk
shows 137

John W. Bessai
*Chapter 7 *
Digital storytelling and democracy: the National Film Board of Canada as
a counterpublic institution 163

Section III: Institutional and policy approaches

José Miguel Rojo-Martínez
*Chapter 8 *
Institutional activism against polarization: A case study of the 
Disagree Better initiative 183

Anna-Karin Eriksson
*Chapter 9 *
Authoritarian democratization? 203

Susanne Alldén, Roger Buhendwa, and Denis Mukwege
*Chapter 10 *
Fostering social cohesion and everyday democracy: The transformative
impact of the PF Badilika initiative on gender norms and community
resilience 217

Pernilla Jonsson Severson and Emma Ricknell
Conclusion: Towards the “Daily We” through habits and hope aiming for
everyday acts of democratic resilience 237


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