Cosmos
The Centre on Social Movement Studies
Journal Article - 2025
Author: Donatella Della Porta, Marco Antonelli
Based on an approach to power resources that links studies on social movements with those on labour sociology, in this article we examine the mobilizations that took place at Mondo Convenienza, a large Italian company involved in the logistic sector, against extreme forms of exploitation. We suggest that, in order to understand these forms of… more
Monograph - 2024
Author: Manuela Caiani, Benedetta Carlotti, Marko Lovec, Maria Wincławska, Faris Kočan, Adam Balcer
Moving from a social movement perspective, this timely volume examines narratives on Euroscepticism and frames on Europe from below, at the party and social movement levels. Revealing perspectives from both the Right and the Left, it unpacks the emergence, re-emergence and increase in critical ‘voices’ and opposition towards Europe. Based on extensive fieldwork in two… moreJournal Article - 2024
Author: Karlo Kralj, Ivan Tranfić
Researchers typically define movement parties as political parties that attempt to innovate party-political organizing through social movements’ action repertoire. Apart from being analyzed as a specific type of political party, movement parties can also be analyzed as a type of framing strategy that actors use to enhance electoral mobilization. Although this kind of analysis has… more
Chapter in edited book - 2024
Author: Manuela Caiani, Enrico Padoan
The chapter discusses popular music and cultural practices as vectors for the articulation of national populism in the contemporary Italian context. After examining the Multiple Opportunity Structures (MOS) within which the nexus between music and politics is located in the country, it explores the ways in which popular music functions as a medium for the… moreJournal Article - 2024
Author: Lorenzo Bosi, Stefan Malthaner
Phenomena of collective action – of collective political conflict1 – are neither uniform nor stable. They comprise institutional and non-institution- al actors as well as routine, confrontational, or even violent forms of action. They take place in different arenas, change over time and involve individu- als in different ways, roles, and trajectories. This variance and… more
Journal Article - 2024
Author: Manuela Caiani, Pal Susanszky, Nikos Saridakis
Mobilisations opposed to vaccinations and other Covid-19-related measures have dominated the protest arena in the recent years of the pandemic. Radical right collective actors, whether newly emerging or revitalised, have successfully shaped public discourses and gained significant roles on the streets and in party politics. This paper analyses the radical right (RR) mobilisation that takes… more
Journal Article - 2024
Author: Franca Marquardt
This article critically examines the complexities of internationalism within German radical Left movements, especially in the face of war, humanitarian crises, and the global reach of late-stage capitalism. Germany’s failed response to the Genocide in Gaza and its carceral turn is shaped by the State’s approach to national memory, which is deeply rooted in its… moreJournal Article - 2024
Author: Anastasia Barone
This article analyzes the relationship between repertoires of action and collective memory by exploring the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy. These were a key form of action of 1970s feminism in the country, which rapidly disappeared after the institution of state-based Family Health Centers. In the last decades, feminist and transfeminist self-managed… moreJournal Article - 2024
Author: Manuela Caiani
Although images are very important for political actors and social movements, including the radical right (RR), empirical studies still rarely integrate visual material as relevant data for understanding radical right politics. This article outlines this new and growing field of research (i.e., visuality and the RR), critically reviewing existing studies from the perspective of both… more
Special Issue - 2024
Author: Manuela Caiani, Ivan Tranfić
Anti-gender Networks.” It investigates how different configurations of actors and identities, causes and conditions, and mechanisms and trajectories are related to the building of anti-gender transnational contention. Moving from social movement approaches, the article disentangles the definitions of anti-gender collective actors, transnationalization, and diffusion vis-à-vis various organizational and background factors. It argues that we have… moreJournal Article - 2026
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