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The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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Rosario Freire Saray

PhD candidate

Rosario Freire Saray is a PhD researcher in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. Her research focuses on feminist movements and political practices, with particular attention to Chile and Italy. Drawing on multi-sited feminist ethnography, her work examines how feminist actors develop strategies of resistance in changing political and socio-economic contexts, as well as the historical and transnational connections that shape contemporary feminist mobilisation. Her research interests include social movements, feminist politics, political practices, gender and politics, and the relationship between feminist movements and the far right.

Research interests: social movements, feminist movements, gender and politics, and political ethnography

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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