Cosmos
The Centre on Social Movement Studies
Journal Article - 2015
Author: Lorenzo Bosi, Lorenzo Zamponi
This article analyses continuities and discontinuities across time in Italy in the use of direct social actions, defined as forms of action that focus upon directly transforming some specific aspects of society by means of the very action itself, instead of claiming something from the state or other power holders. In doing this, this article… moreChapter in edited book - 2015
Author: Federico Matias Rossi and Donatella della Porta
In this chapter we review the main perspectives on democratization and then propose an analytic organization of the different roles that social movements, trade unions, advocacy networks, churches, and cycles of protest play in the dynamic, contingent, and contentious shaping of democracy. In doing this, we are of course not pleading for an exclusive focus… moreEdited Volume - 2015
Author: Lorenzo Bosi, Niall O’Dochartaigh and Daniela Pisoiu
Context is crucial to understanding the causes of political violence and the form it takes. This book examines how time, space and supportive milieux decisively shape the pattern and pace of such violence. While much of the work in this field focuses on individual psychology or radical ideology, Bosi, Ó Dochartaigh, Pisoiu and others take… more
Monograph - 2015
Author: Donatella della Porta
Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Beginning with Iceland in 2008, and then forcefully in Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece and… moreChapter in edited book - 2015
Author: Donatella della Porta and Alice Mattoni
Chapter in edited book - 2015
Author: Alice Mattoni
This chapter analyses the different frames that emerged during the mobilizations of precarious workers that occurred in Italy in the early 2000s, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters all over the country. In the past, workers’ movements had been rather homogeneous, representing workers who experienced very similar working and living conditions. In this sense, it… moreJournal Article - 2014
Authors: Juan Masullo Jimenez; Jone Lauzurika Bajo
This article analyses anti-austerity protest in Italy as a sort of ‘functional equivalent’ of the Indignados movements in other countries. While the typical forms of action of these movements, the acampada, were not very widespread in Italy in 2011, there were mobilisations for social justice and participatory democracy which indeed resonated with the frames that… moreChapter in edited book - 2014
Author: Philip M. Ayoub and David Paternotte
Journal Article - 2014
Author: Donatella della Porta
This short article comments on Bennet's and Segerberg's work on connecting action. After singling out some conditions which, according to social movement studies, would make an aggregating logic and personalized messages very important for mobilization, the author calls for further research (including through qualitative methods) on the complex dynamics related to the contemporary use of… moreJournal Article - 2014
Author: Phillip M. Ayoub
European Journal of International Relations, 2014, OnlineFirst01/07/2024
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