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The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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The Cosmos Talks program for the fall

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North-American, Australian and European guests and a rich program for the coming months

18 September h. 14-15.30
Alborz Ghandehari | University of Utah
Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle

9 October h. 16-17.30
Neve Gordon | Queen Mary University of London
The Weaponisation of Antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the Production of a Moral Panic

5 November  h. 14-15.30
Paul Lichterman | University of Southern California, Dornsife
Morality in mobilization: the case of white American anti-racism 

4 December h. 14-15.30
Alison Young | University of Melbourne
Contesting the Streets: Blockades, Obstruction and ‘Inconvenience’

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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