“Caring democracy, the commons, and polarization in the context of democratic backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism”: To propose a rethinking of "polarization" in the context of democratic backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism, and call for a substantive over a procedural understanding of democracy based on commons thinking and "caring democracy".
Cristina Flesher Fominaya (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is an internationally recognized expert in European and global social movement and politics, and Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is editor in chief of Social Movement Studies Journal, and co-founder of Interface. She has published and edited widely in the area of social movements and democratic innovation, including her book on Spain’s transformative pro-democracy movement Democracy Reloaded (2020 Oxford University Press). She speaks regularly to audiences around the world on social movements, human rights, and democracy.
