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The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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Social movements between sociology and history. An interdisciplinary dialogue

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Thursday, May 22nd, h. 10, Aula Altana, Palazzo Strozzi

  • Donatella della Porta – Scuola Normale Superiore
  • Luisa Passerini – European University Institute

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  • Anastasia Barone – Scuola Normale Superiore

This conference aims at exploring the intersections between history and sociology in the study of social movements. The relationship between these two disciplines is a crucial one, as mutual influences have profoundly shaped both fields over the decades. In this regard, the study of social movements has been a particularly fertile ground, allowing historical and sociological perspectives to inform and enrich one another. The dialogue between Donatella Della Porta and Luisa Passerini will offer the opportunity to reflect on how historical and sociological perspectives on social movements have contributed to the study of memory, legacies, continuities and changes in collective action.

The event is organized by COSMOS and RHYTHMS – Working group on temporalities and movements.

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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