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Romain Bonnet

Visiting Scholar

Romain Bonnet is a certified Lecturer (Maître de Conférences) in Global History at SciencesPo Paris. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Civilization from the European University Institute of Florence (EUI, since 2016). His scientific background is international and interdisciplinary, as evident from his three Master degrees, as well as from his strong command of several languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, etc.). Doctor Bonnet’s doctoral dissertation is an original comparison of peasant revolts and political violence in post-First World War Italy (1918-1922) and in the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936). It was awarded the Pier Paolo d’Attorre dissertation’s prize from the Gramsci Foundation (Italy, 2017). From 2017 to 2020, the author deepened his comparative and interdisciplinary research on violence and social movements, by working on the French metropole and colonies between 1870 and 1914, in a project of the European Research Council (ERC). Doctor Bonnet has published his research in journals such as Participazione e conflitto, Histoire@politique and Revista de historiografía.

Research interests: Political Violence, Social Movements, Interdisciplinarity, Comparative Method, Transnational History

 

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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