Democracy, understood relationally, is not simply a mechanism for aggregating preferences or distributing power. It is a set of practices through which communities constitute themselves, contest their shared life, and orient themselves toward a shared future. The crisis of democracy globally is not primarily a crisis of institutions; it is a crisis of the relational conditions that make democratic life possible; conditions now reshaped by digital public spheres, platform-mediated political life, and the algorithmic curation of what citizens see and believe. This research strand examines the conditions under which democratic resilience is sustained in contexts of profound inequality, social fragmentation, and epistemic injustice.