Everyday Extremism
refers to the manifestation of extremist behaviours, attitudes, or ideologies in the routine activities of individuals or within societal structures on a day-to-day basis. Everyday extremism involves the normalisation of extremist elements into ordinary aspects of life, potentially impacting social cohesion and interactions. Everyday actions and behaviours cross the line and become extreme and risk de-humanisation when they communicate hostility to another person, group or party.
Everyday Extremism Scale
The everyday extremism scale was developed using grounded ecological methods. The scale consists of 12 weighted statements. It asks people to rate the acceptability of actions and behaviours on a scale of 1 – 4.
Attunement
Throughout the OppAttune project we recognise that democracy requires its citizens to engage in oppositional actions, attitudes and behaviours which may well be in opposition to each other. In order to avoid oppositional worldviews crossing the line into hostile opposition attunement refers to the process by which such oppositional element are brought into a continual dynamic relationship with each other involving, both harmony and discordant dialogical moves. Attunement creates understanding and dialogical cohesion within political and societal structures. Attunement aims to limit the evolution and effects of extremism.
Rights-Contexts
Rights-contexts refer to the specific circumstances, situations, or environments in which legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement, commonly known as rights, are claimed. Understanding rights-contexts involves examining how rights are exercised and protected in various scenarios.
Regulatory Response
Regulatory response pertains to the measures, policies, or actions implemented by regulatory bodies or authorities in response to specific sets of rights claims or issues. Regulatory response in the context of this toolkit is specifically focused on addressing extremism and its potential societal impacts through legal and policy frameworks.
Contextual Capacity
Contextual capacity refers to the amount of potential a given context has to be transformed by policy. It involves understanding the contextual factors that impact the effectiveness of regulatory measures and their ability to attune everyday extremism.
Rights-claim Public
A Rights-claim public (RCP) is a group that is formed around a specific set of rights claims. These groups may have long-standing claims or may have developed around a specific policy issue.
