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Pietro Casari

PhD candidate

Pietro Casari is a PhD student in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola
Normale Superiore and a member of the Center on Social Movement Studies
(COSMOS), where he co-founded ‘tied up’, a working group on Social Network
Analysis and Relational approach.

His current research focuses on events and temporalities within social movement
and collective action processes, adopting a relational perspective. In particular,
situating his research at the intersection of Social Movement Studies and Digital
Politics, he is interested in investigating the development process of the digital
rights field in Europe within the last decades.

Pietro holds a B.A. in Development Economics and International Cooperation
(Università degli Studi di Firenze), with a specialisation in Migration, Health, and
Rights. After working in an asylum seekers Reception Centre, he decided to continue
his studies, obtaining a M.A. degree (cum laude) in Sociology and Social Research, at
the Università degli Studi di Trento. Here, he had the opportunity to be involved
with the research activities and seminars promoted in the Sociology department,
developing a specific interest in Social Network Analysis methodology.

Research interests: Temporality and collective action, Digital Rights, Processual-Relational Approach, and Network Analysis

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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