Stakes of Democracy: Trust, Nature and Value in Times of Crises

Crises are disruptions where democracy-as-usual becomes visible and rendered explicit. Crises are key for examining and understanding what we stand to lose if democracy fails. In other words, crises are key events that articulate and make tangible what is at stake in democracy. And what is at stake is trust, nature, and value.

The research project and research group (University of Oslo) researches the democracy-crisis relation by approaching crises as key moments for understanding how democracies work and proceed. The project investigates what is at stake in democracy in times of crises and starts from the hypothesis that Trust, Nature, and Value are key matters of concern and at the core of that is at stake.

Stakes of Democracy ask questions like:

-How are trust materialized, sustained and disrupted?

How and by which means is value negotiated and turned into valuation struggles?

What are the little tools and specificities of Nordic Democracies and do such consensus-oriented political cultures act and react in times of crisis?