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Loris Caruso

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Loris Caruso carried out a Phd in Comparative Social Research at the University of Turin, since 2004 to 2008. In 2009 he had a research fellowship in Political Science at the University of Turin. Since 2012 to 2016 he worked at the Department of Sociology and Social research of the University of Milan-Bicocca, where he had a four years research fellowship in sociology. Since the 1 September 2016, he is assistant professor in political sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy.

His articles have been published in «Politics & Society», «European Journal of Social Theory», «Thesis Eleven», «Capital & Class», «Participation & Conflict» and «Sociologica».

Research interests: movement parties, labour conflicts, digital capitalism, and political theory

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Edited Volume - 2026

Conspiracism and Political Conflict

Manuela Caiani, Marco Solinas, Hans-Jorg Trenz

Monograph - 2025

Free download for "Contentious Politics of Global Health Movements"

Donatella Della Porta, Stella Christou

Journal Article - 2025

Communication creates partial organization: A comparative analysis of the organizing practices of two climate action movements, Youth for Climate and Fridays for Future Italy

Marco Deseriis, Lorenzo Zamponi, Diego Ceccobelli
This article focuses on a neglected aspect of the climate action movement Fridays for Future, namely, the relationship between its mediated communication practices and its early organizational processes. Drawing from a strand of organizational communication that underscores the constitutive dimension of communication to organizing processes, we analyze the significance of mediatized leadership and networked communication for the foundation and early development of two national chapters of Fridays for Future: Youth for Climate (YFC) Belgium and Fridays for Future Italy (FFFI).

Journal Article - 2025

Power resources, territory and labour conflicts in the logistic sector

Donatella Della Porta, Marco Antonelli