The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were marked by an emergent democratic imaginary of a system of participatory choice that enfranchised (some) existing humans but excluded other species, the colonised spaces and Indigenous peoples from equal citizenship. In the latter part of the twentieth century, each of these excluded elements moved to centre stage, becoming a global and systemic problem for democratic (and other) political systems. In response, democratic theory and practice also shifted, trying to accommodate the practical realities of an increasingly fluid and borderless social and economic world, and recognise the needs and the ontological prevalence of the non-human world, the rights of First Peoples, and the techno-scientific artefacts. In the aftermath of a number of geoengineering failures, and other consequences of the failure to resolve the compounding crises of late twentieth century, the twenty-first century further reconfigured and speciated democracy. If the challenge of the early twenty-first century was the chain of ecological catastrophes until the concept of normalcy vanished, the challenge of the late twenty-first century has been understanding the responses of human societies and non-human communities to this situation.