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  • Gender and Culture Wars in Italy

    A Genealogy of Media Representations

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines contemporary culture wars around gender in Italy. Applying methods from European cultural studies, the authors reconstruct the ways in which gender issues have become part of the contemporary culture wars in Italy. Recently the convergence between neoliberalism and populism has emphasised the centrality of gender in the political arena at the global level, as well as its crucial ... Read more

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  • European Political Leaders and the Social Representation of the Covid-19 Crisis

    Leading the Pandemic

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    European leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management, and relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public sphere. The pandemic also highlighted the importance of the already-existing cleavage between populism and technocracy, positioning it at the centre of the ... Read more

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  • Understanding European Movements

    New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial ... Read more

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    Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union

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    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
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    Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements

    Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions for the future of democracy.In this highly articulate book, Donatella della Porta analyses diverse conceptions and practices of participatory and ... Read more

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    Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

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  • Comparing Media Systems

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