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The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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Visiting Cosmos

You are more than welcome to spend some of your time at COSMOS to develop/improve/share your research!

Visiting requests must be sent to and will be managed by the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore, where COSMOS is based.

If you are a PhD student, please refer to the VISITING STUDENTS page on the Scuola Normale Superiore website.

If you are a Post Doc, a Researcher or a Professor, please refer to the VISITING OPPORTUNITIES page on the Scuola Normale Superiore website, where you will find more information and the form to fill in order to visit the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Please download the Visiting Vademecum, where you will find a set of useful information to make the best out of your visiting period.

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Publications

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