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The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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2025-03-15

The future of university in Italy/Il futuro dell’università in Italia

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Universities are under attack, and there is an urgent need for reflection on the international context and the developments in Italy, their social role, the resources available and the institutional changes taking place. This set of problems will be addressed in the meeting ‘The Future of the University in Italy’ that the Scuola Normale Superiore is organising on 18 March, h.10-13.30 at the Class of Political and social sciences, in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi.

Le università sono sotto attacco, ed è urgente una riflessione sul contesto internazionale e sugli sviluppi in Italia, sul loro ruolo sociale, sulle risorse disponibili e sui cambiamenti istituzionali in corso. Quest’insieme di problemi sarà affrontato nell’incontro “Il futuro dell’università in Italia” che la Scuola Normale Superiore organizza il 18 marzo, h.10-13.30 presso la Classe di scienze politico-sociali, a Firenze a Palazzo Strozzi.

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Programma:

Presiede

Guglielmo Meardi – Preside della Classe di scienze politico-sociali, Scuola Normale Superiore

Interventi

Luigi Ambrosio – Direttore della Scuola Normale Superiore
L’esperienza del Tavolo tecnico sulla ricerca fondamentale del 2022

Tomaso Montanari – Rettore dell’Università per stranieri di Siena
Università libera o sotto controllo?

Donatella Della Porta – Scuola Normale Superiore
Il valore della libertà accademica

Luca Paolazzi – Fondazione Nord-Est
L’emigrazione dei laureati italiani

Discussione

Mario Pianta – Scuola Normale Superiore, Rete delle Società Scientifiche Italiane
Il ridimensionamento dell’università in Italia

Lorenzo Zamponi – Scuola Normale Superiore
Il precariato nell’università italiana

Daniela Chironi – Scuola Normale Superiore
Le prospettive di ricercatori e ricercatrici: l’esperienza alla Scuola Normale Superiore

Maria Luisa Meneghetti – Accademia dei Lincei, Commissione Università
Il problema delle Università telematiche private

Luigi Burroni – Università di Firenze, delegato alle relazioni sindacali
Università e sviluppo in Italia

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Publications

Journal Article - 2023

Resisting right-wing populism in power: a comparative analysis of the Facebook activities of social movements in Italy and the UK
Niccolò Pennucci
This paper aims to present a comparative study of the civil society reaction to right-wing populism in power through social media, by looking at cases in Italy and the United Kingdom.

Journal Article - 2023

Emotions in Action: the Role of Emotions in Refugee Solidarity Activism
Chiara Milan
This article investigates the different types of emotions that result from participation in refugee solidarity activism, investigating how they change over time and to what extent they explain why individuals remain involved in action in spite of unfavorable circumstances.

Journal Article - 2023

‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil
Batuhan Eren
This study addresses the question of why and how a protest can inspire individuals in distant countries. Taking the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil as cases, it investigates the reasons why the Turkish protests were framed as one of the inspirational benchmarks by some Brazilian protesters.

Journal Article - 2023

Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lorenzo Zamponi
From the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing measures introduced created a series of social problems and needs that were partially addressed in Italy as well as in other countries by grassroots mutual aid initiatives. While many of these initiatives were strongly rooted in the Italian social movement and civil society landscape and the choice to engage in mutual aid activities was the result of long years of reflection and planning, the article shows how strongly the temporality of emergency affected the nature of these initiatives, their development and their outcomes, in particular with regard to the extraordinary number of people who volunteered and their relationship with politicisation processes.

Monograph - 2023

Populism and (Pop) Music
Manuela Caiani, Enrico Padoan
The book provides a detailed account of the links between production of popular culture to the rise of populism and contributes to studies on populism and popular culture in Italy, using a comparative approach and a cultural sociology perspective

Monograph - 2022

Labour conflicts in the digital age
Donatella della Porta, Riccardo Emilio Chesta, Lorenzo Cini
From Deliveroo to Amazon, digital platforms have drastically transformed the way we work. But how are these transformations being received and challenged by workers? This book provides a radical interpretation of the changing nature of worker movements in the digital age, developing an invaluable approach that combines social movement studies and industrial relations. Using case studies taken from Europe and North America, it offers a comparative perspective on the mobilizing trajectories of different platform workers and their distinct organizational forms and action repertoires.

Monograph - 2022

Resisting the Backlash: Street Protest in Italy
Donatella della Porta, Niccolò Bertuzzi, Daniela Chironi, Chiara Milan, Martín Portos & Lorenzo Zamponi
Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors’ original social movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in resistance to perceived political "regression" and a growing right-wing backlash.

Journal Article - 2021

Learning from Democratic Practices: New Perspectives in Institutional Design
Andrea Felicetti
Drawing from literature on democratic practices in social movements and democratic innovations, the article illustrates three ways to advance institutional design in the wake of the systemic turn.

Monograph - 2021

Migrant Protest. Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations
Elias Steinhilper
This book explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavorable contexts of marginalization.

Journal Article - 2021

Populism between voting and non-electoral participation
Andrea Pirro & Martín Portos
The article focuses on a neglected aspect of populist mobilisation, i.e. non-electoral participation (NEP), and elaborates on the extent to which populist party voters engage politically outside the polling station. While challenging common understandings of populism as inherently distrustful and apathetic, and protest as an exclusive practice of the left, the study critically places NEP at the heart of populism in general, and populist right politics in particular.
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