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COSMOS - The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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The Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos) is a network based at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence.

It focuses on social movements as part of broader contentious politics. It promotes theoretically-driven empirical analyses on forms, dimensions, causes and impacts of social movements, in established democracies as well as authoritarian regimes.

Particular attention is given to social movements as promoters of democratization processes.

COSMOS activities are organized within five main clusters:

  • Democracy and social movements
  • Socio-economic structures and contentious politics
  • Communication in Political Participation and Mobilization
  • Movement parties in time and space
  • Political Violence

Donatella della Porta's keynote speeches in 2020-2021

10/11/2021 Gothenborg. Participation at a Roundtable on Recent trend in social movement studies

19/11/2021 SNS Introduction to the Conference on Feminism as a methodology

28/10/2021 Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra Opening Lecture on Social movements and repressive turns

14/10/221. SNS. Presentazione at the conference on Le organizzazione di cooperazione allo sviluppo

12/10/2021 SNS Presentation at the Conference on I ricchi 

8-9/10/2021 Turin Lectures at the Biennale per la Democrazia

24/9/2021 University of Crete. Keynote at the conference in my honour

13/7/2021 Geneva. United Nation. Keynote on Social movements in pandemic times

3/7/2021 Vienna. Presentation at Plenar session  on Black Lives Matter

7/12/2020 Oslo. Talk on How Social Movements can save democracy

9/10/2020 San Paulo do Brasil, Talk on How social movements can save democracy

2/10/2020 Barcelona Keynote at Summer School on De-Growth

24/9/2020 New York University Keynote at International Talks series on Contentious Politics

9/7/2020 Keynote at International Summer School on De-Growth

6/7/2020 Keynote at International Summer School on Migration

29/6/2020 Keynote at International Summer School on Urban and environmental Studies

19/6/2020 Berlin, Hertie School of Governance. Conference on Emergency Times

20/5/2020 Lisbon Talk on Social Movements in Pandemic Times

27/4/2020 Copenhagen. Conferenza su Social Movements in Pandemic Times 

21/1/2020 SNS Apertura conferenza sui centri anti-violenza e la nuova ondata di movimenti femministi

13/1/2020, Berlino, Keynote alla conferenza organizzata dal Ministero degli Esteri Tedesco sulla società civile

COSMOS talks organized in 2021

29/01/21 (Grzegorz Piotrowski, Magdalena Muszel, European Solidarity Centre /Zatoka Foundation) Struggling for women’s rights in Poland

19/02/21 (Steven Epstein, Northwestern University) Rethinking lay expertise: from AIDS activism to the era of Covid-19

26/02/21 (Jeffrey Karam, Rima Majed, Lebanese American University) American University of Beirut Lebanon's October Uprising: A Revolutionary Rupture?

05/03/21 (Brooke Foucault Welles, Northeastern University) Hashtag Activism

12/03/21 (Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California) A bigger box: studying social movements as civic action

15/03/21(Zeynep Gambetti, Mert Arslanalp, Ogulcan Yediveren, Boğaziçi  University) Boğaziçi University Protests: An Unexpected Challenge to Authoritarianism

23/04/21(Paul Haslam, Ottawa University) The micro-politics of corporate responsibility: How companies shape protest in mining communities

29/04/21 (Antonis A. Ellinas, University of Cyprus) Organizing Against Democracy: The Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe

14/05/21 (Ayça Çubukçu, School of Economics and Political Science) For the Love of Humanity: the World Tribunal on Iraq

28/05/21 (David Behar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) Commoning as an Instrument of Resistance: Gentrification and Community Building in Downtown Haifa

18/06/21 (Antoine Vauchez, Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne) The Neoliberal Republic. Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft and the Making of Public-Private France

20/10/21 (Francis O’Connor Wageningen University) Understanding Insurgency. Popular Support for the PKK in Turkey

21/10/21 (Ana Margarida Fernandes Esteves, KSENIJA HANACEK, GRETTEL NAVAS, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ICTA – UAB) Environmental justice, social movements and community action

08/11/21 (Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham) Troubled Waters: Resisting Privatization in Europe

22/11/21 (Nicole Curato, University of Canberra) The Spectacle of the Strongman

03/12/21 (Marco Giugni, University of Geneva Public Discourses About Youth and Their Impact

Events organised in 2020-2021

Ciclo Polis – dialoghi su politica e società, 2021-2022.

  1. 24 marzo 2021 ore 16,30-18,30, Recovery Fund: quali sfide e opportunità per l'Italia? Fabrizio Barca (Forum Disuguaglianze Diversità), e Silvia Merler (Algebris Policy & Research Forum), coordina Manuela Moschella, (SNS)
  2. 15 marzo 2022 ore 16,30-18, Sovranità alimentare: teorie e pratiche in Italia Isabella Giunta, (Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales -IAEN, Ecuador), Fabrizio Garbarino, (co-coordinatore nazionale ARI - Associazione Rurale Italiana), Irina Aguiari, (SNS)

Conferences and roundtables, 2020-2021

  1. 21 febbraio 2020, Sciopero femminista. Riflessioni, pratiche e lotte collettive
  2. 12 febbraio 2021 ore 17-19, Movimenti e politica, ieri e oggi (Luciana Castellina dialoga con Donatella Della Porta)
  3. 15 aprile 2021, Songs that change the world? The protest song as political communication and political action research meeting con John Street, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia;
  4. 19 maggio 2021, tavola rotonda su “Blended Democracy? Democratic innovation at the dawn of the twenties” con Donatella Della Porta, Hans Asenbaum (University of Canberra), Chiara Milan, Paolo Spada (University of Southampton);
  5. 12 ottobre 2021, ore 16-19, Seminario dell’Istituto Ciampi su “Ricchezza, ricchi e disuguaglianze in Italia”, con Mario Pianta (SNS), Donatella della Porta (SNS), Giulio Marcon (SNS), Linus Westheuser (SNS), Daniela Chironi (SNS);
  6. 14 ottobre 2021 ore 16,30-19  Le organizzazioni di cooperazione allo sviluppo italiane: antiche solidarietà, nuovi modelli con Mario Pianta, Donatella della Porta, Fiorenzo Polito (SNS);
  7. 19 novembre 2021 ore 14-17,30 tavola rotonda su “Feminism as a method - Feminist and Queer Epistemologies, Methodologies and Methods in Social”;
  8. 2 dicembre 2021 ore 14-17 Beyond Euroscepticism: Narratives on Europe from Below;

Research products

1) Bosi and Zamponi. 2020. "Paths toward the Same Form of Collective Action: Direct Social Action in Times of Crisis in Italy" Social Forces 99 (2): 847-869. Bosi and Uba. 2021.“When, where, and which kind of collective action matters?”  Partecipazione e Conflitto 

2) Della Porta, Donatella and Elias Steinhilper (eds.), Contentious Migrant Solidarity, London, Routledge, 2021

3) Della Porta, Donatella, Lorenzo Cini and Cesar Guzman (eds.),  Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism. Forms of Organization, Alliances, and Outcomes Springer, 2021.. 

4) Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani, Social Movements: An introduction, 3rd edition, Blackwell, 2020

5) Della Porta, Donatella, How Social Movements can Save Democracy, Polity, 2020.

6) Della Porta, Donatella, Die schoene neue Demokratie. Ueber das potentiale soziale Bewegungen, Campus  Verlag, 2020.

7) Della Porta, Donatella, Lorenzo Cini and Cesar Guzman, Contesting Higher Education, Bristol University Press, 2020.

8) Della Porta, Donatella, Pietro Castelli Gattinara, Andrea Felicetti, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Discoursive Turns and Critical Junctures, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

1.(with Alice Mattoni), 2021, Civil Society against Corruption, in The Oxford Handbook on the Quality of Government, Oxford University Press, pp. 290-310.

2. (with Raffaele Marchetti). Transnational activism and the global justice movement, Gerard Delanty and Stepen P. Turner (eds), Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, 2021, second expanded edition

3. della Porta, D., Gunzelmann HJ and M. Portos, 2021, Repression and democracy amidst the Eventful 1-O Referendum, in O. Augustin (ed.), Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty, Palgrave, pp. 127-150

4. Andretta M, della Porta D (2020) When millennials protest. In: Cuzzocrea V, Giovanna Bello B, Kazepov Y (eds) Italian Youth in International Context. Routledge, London, 

5. della Porta, D. (2020). Movimientos sociales en tiempos de COVID-19: Otro mundo es necesario. In B. Bringel & G. Pleyers (Eds.), El mundo en suspenso. CLACSO, pp. 55–62.

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7. della Porta, . (2021), Progressive Social Movements, Democracy and the Pandemic. In G. Delanty (ed.), Pandemics, Politics and Society, Berlin: De Gruyter, 209-226.

 

1. della Porta, Donatella and Elias Steinhilper, 2021 Solidarity in Motions, Special isse of Critical sociology, 47 (2).

2. della Porta, D.  (2020) Europeanisation from below: special issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology,  7 (3).

3. Ciccia, R., D. della Porta and E. Pavan, 2021, Feminist alliances, special issue oft he European Journal of Politics and Gender 4 (2)

4.  della Porta, D.,, M. Keating and Mario Pianta 2020. Special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance 

5. della Porta, D. and M. Pianta, M. 2020. Special issue of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 53.

10. Della Porta, D. 2021, Progressive Soziale Bewegungen und europaeische Oeffentlichkeiten, Leviathan, 73, 188-202

11. Ciccia, R., D. della Porta and E. Pavan, 2021, Introduction,  Feminist alliances, special issue oft he European Journal of Politics and Gender 4 (2), 175-179.

12. Pirro, A.L. and D, della Porta, 2021 On Corruption and State Capture: The struggle on anti-corruption in Hungary, Europe-Asia Studies 73 (3) 433-450.

13. della Porta, D. (2020c). How progressive social movements can save democracy in pandemic timesd Interface: a journal for and about social movements 12 (1): 355– 358.

14. (with Mario Diani), Welfare e conflitti sociali, in Parolechiave, 2020, 28 (2), 101-110.

15. Donatella della Porta (2021) Communication in progressive movement parties: against populism and beyond digitalism, Information, Communication & Society, 24:10, 1344-1360, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1894212

16. della Porta, D.,, M. Keating and Mario Pianta 2020. Introduction to Special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance 9 (3), 325-330

17. Donatella della Porta (2021) From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements, Social Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2021.1993182

18. della Porta, Donatella and Elias Steinhilper, 2021. Introduction to Solidarity in Motions, Special isse of Critical sociology, 47 (2).

19. della Porta, D.  (2020) Europeanisation from below: Still time for another Europe? Introduction to the special issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 7 (3): 225-241

 

  1. Della Porta, Donatella et al Resisting the Backlash: Street Protest in Italy, London, Routledge, 2022.
  2. Della Porta, Donatella and Alberto Vannucci, La corruzione come sistema, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021
  3. Della Porta, Donatella and Elias Steinhilper (eds.), Contentious Migrant Solidarity, London, Routlede, 2021
  4. Della Porta, Donatella, Lorenzo Cini and Cesar Guzman (eds.),  Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism. Forms of Organization, Alliances, and Outcomes Springer, 2021.. 
  5. Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani, Social Movements: An introduction, 3rd edition, Blackwell, 2020
  6. Della Porta, Donatella, How Social Movements can Save Democracy, Polity, 2020.
  7. Della Porta, Donatella, Die schoene neue Demokratie. Ueber das potentiale soziale Bewegungen, Campus  Verlag, 2020.
  8. Della Porta, Donatella, Lorenzo Cini and Cesar Guzman, Contesting Higher Education, Bristol University Press, 2020.
  9. Della Porta, Donatella, Pietro Castelli Gattinara, Andrea Felicetti, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Discoursive Turns and Critical Junctures, Oxford University Press, 2020
  10. Della Porta, Donatella (ed), Memory in Movements: 1968 in 2018, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2018.
  11. Della Porta, Donatella (ed), Il Sessantotto, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2018.
  12. Della Porta, Donatella, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Eduardo Romanos, Markos Votgiatzoglou, Memories in Movements, Oxford University Press, 2018.
  13. Della Porta, Donatella (ed.), Contentious Moves. London: Palgrave. 2018. 
  14. Della Porta, Donatella. Democracias. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2018.
  15. Della Porta, Donatella, Francis O’Connor, Martin Portos and Anna Subirats, Social Movements and Referendums from Below: Direct Democracy in the Neoliberal Crisis, Bristol: Policy Press, 2017.
  16. Della Porta, Donatella, Teije Donker, Bogumila Hall, Emin Poljarevic, Daniel Ritter, Social Movements and Civil Wars: When Protest for Democratization Fails, London: Routledge, 2017.
  17. Della Porta Donatella (ed). The Global Diffusion of Protest, Amsterdam University Press 2017
  18. Della Porta, Donatella Where did the Revolution go? Contentiou Politics and the Quality of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2017
  19. Della Porta, Donatella, Joseba Fernandez, Hara Kouki, Lorenzo Mosca, Movement Parties in Times of Crisis. Cambridge: Polity, 2017.
  20. Della Porta, Donatella, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Francis O’Connor, Eduardo Romanos, Markos Votgiatzoglou. Late Neoliberalism and its Discontent. London, Palgrave 2016.
  21. Della Porta Donatella, Sakari Hänninen, Martti Siisiäinen and Tiina Silvasti (eds) The New Social Division. Making and Unmaking Precariousness. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
  22. Della Porta Donatella and Alberto Vannucci. The Hidden Order of Corruption,Chinese translation, Fudan press.
  23. Della Porta Donatella and Michael Keating (eds.) Sosyal Bilimlerde Yaklaşımlar ve Metodolojiler, Instambul: Kure, 2015 (Turkish translation)
  24. Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani, ed., Oxford Handbook on Social Movements, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015. 
  25. Della Porta,Donatella, I partiti politici, Bologna, Il Mulino, 3 edition, 2015.
  26. Della Porta, Donatella, Social Movements in Times of Crisis. Bringing Capitalism Back into the Analysis of Protest, Cambridge, Polity, 2015.
  27. Della Porta , Donatella, Mario Diani, Los Movimientos Sociales. Madrid, CIS y Editorial Complutense, 2015 (second edition)
  28. Della Porta, Donatella, Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport!: Spreading Democracy in the Anti-Austerity Movements. 2015 Huddinge: Södertörns högskola

Special issues of scientific Journals (guest editor)

  1. della Porta, Donatella and Elias Steinhilper, 2021 Solidarity in Motions, Special isse of Critical sociology, 47 (2).
  2. della Porta, D.  (2020) Europeanisation from below: special issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology,  7 (3).
  3. Ciccia, R., D. della Porta and E. Pavan, 2021, Feminist alliances, special issue oft he European Journal of Politics and Gender 4 (2)
  4.  della Porta, D.,, M. Keating and Mario Pianta 2020. Special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance 
  5. della Porta, D. and M. Pianta, M. 2020. Special issue of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 53.
  6. Della Porta, D. 2019. Double special issue of American Behavioral Scientist https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219831739
  7. Della Porta, D.. . Caruso e A. Pirro, special issue on Anticorruption from Below, in Partecipazione e conflitto, 10 (3), 2017,

Articles in referees journals (2020-2021)

  1. Della Porta, D. 2021, Progressive Soziale Bewegungen und europaeische Oeffentlichkeiten, Leviathan, 73, 188-202
  2. Ciccia, R., D. della Porta and E. Pavan, 2021, Introduction,  Feminist alliances, special issue oft he European Journal of Politics and Gender 4 (2), 175-179.
  3. Pirro, A.L. and D, della Porta, 2021 On Corruption and State Capture: The struggle on anti-corruption in Hungary, Europe-Asia Studies 73 (3) 433-450.
  4. della Porta, D. (2020c). How progressive social movements can save democracy in pandemic timesd Interface: a journal for and about social movements 12 (1): 355– 358.
  5. Della Porta Donatella e Mario Diani, Welfare e conflitti sociali, in Parolechiave, 2020, 28 (2), 101-110.
  6. Donatella della Porta (2021) Communication in progressive movement parties: against populism and beyond digitalism, Information, Communication & Society, 24:10, 1344-1360, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1894212
  7. della Porta, D.,, M. Keating and Mario Pianta 2020. Introduction to Special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance 9 (3), 325-330
  8. della Porta, Donatella and Elias Steinhilper, 2021. Introduction to Solidarity in Motions, Special isse of Critical sociology, 47 (2).
  9. della Porta, D.  (2020) Europeanisation from below: Still time for another Europe? Introduction to the special issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 7 (3): 225-241.

Donatella della Porta (2021) From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements, Social Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2021.1993182

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