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The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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Lorenzo Velotti

Research Fellow

Lorenzo is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore and a member of the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS). His current research focuses on the politics of housing and anti-touristification in rentier capitalism. More broadly, his work engages with class, care, the commons, social
movements, and degrowth.
He received his PhD cum laude from the Scuola Normale Superiore with a dissertation on the contested politics of care in urban commons. During his doctoral training, he held visiting positions at the Autonomous University of Barcelona within post-growth and political ecology research environments.
His work has been published in journals such as The Sociological Review and Globalizations. He is a board member of Research and Degrowth International and regularly contributes to public debates on socio-ecological justice.

Research interests: care, social movements, ethnography, degrowth, and commons

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Publications

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