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Gemma Gasseau

Research Fellow

Gemma Gasseau is a political economist, currently 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). Her current research focuses on sustainability, eco-social policies and envionmental politics.

She holds a PhD cum laude in Transnational Governance from Scuola Normale Superiore, focused on water governance in the EU. During her PhD, she held visiting position at several universities, including SciencesPo in Paris and Cornell University in the US.

Her work has been published in international journals, including Review of International Political Economy, Globalizations, and European Journal of International Relations. She is a board member of the Critical Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological Association, and she is a founding member of the global network of academic and activists Just Water Futures.

 


Research interests
: Critical Political Economy, Economic History, Neo-Gramscian Theory, Feminist Social Reproduction theory, Political Ecology.

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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