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Elena del Giorgio

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Elena Del Giorgio is currently Research Fellow in the Interdepartmental Centre “Women and Gender Differences” at the University of Milan – Department of Political and Social Sciences where she is working within the FP7 European Project STAGES – Structural Transformation to Achieve Gender Equality in Science. She has also worked within the FP6 European Project QUING – Quality in Gender+Equality Policies at the Complutense University of Madrid. Elena obtained her Master of Research and PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute with a thesis titled “What has happened to the women’s movement?: Organisational Dynamics and Trajectories of Feminist Organisations in Milan and Berlin”.

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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