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The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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Trans visibility and resistance: dialogues between scolarship and praxis

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A COSMOS event, organised in collaboration with FIG (Feminism, Intersectionality and Gender Working Group), will take place on the occasion of Trans Visibility Day. The event will create a space for dialogue between scholars, activists, and community members, fostering intersectional perspectives on trans rights, self-determination, and resistance.

The first part will take place at Palazzo Vegni (SNS), where four scholars will discuss key issues such as self-determination, (mental) healthcare, imaginaries beyond gender and family, and the challenges faced by trans and queer communities.

The second part, hosted at Circolo San Niccoló, will bring together social movements and queer-trans organisations to debate current struggles and strategies of resistance in shaping emancipatory futures.

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Edited Volume - 2026

Conspiracism and Political Conflict

Manuela Caiani, Marco Solinas, Hans-Jorg Trenz

Monograph - 2025

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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