Papers by Lorenzo Zamponi
Un altro mondo è ancora possibile? Lo spazio dell’alternativa vent’anni dopo Genova e Porto Alegre , 2021
Zamponi, L. (2021) L’Italia dei movimenti tra berlusconismo, crisi strutturale della sinistra e n... more Zamponi, L. (2021) L’Italia dei movimenti tra berlusconismo, crisi strutturale della sinistra e nuovi populismi (2001-2021). In: Cantiere delle Idee and Fairwatch (eds.) Un altro mondo è ancora possibile? Lo spazio dell’alternativa vent’anni dopo Genova e Porto Alegre. Milano: Fondazione Feltrinelli, pp. 135-150.
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Social Movement Studies
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Radical Left Movements in Europe
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The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
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Journal of Youth Studies
In resisting climate change, to what extent can lifestyle forms of activism be considered to be p... more In resisting climate change, to what extent can lifestyle forms of activism be considered to be political? What are their determinants and to what extent do they differ from the determinants of other forms of action? What role do generational factors play? Does the centrality of lifestyle changes for young participants translate into a disaffection towards more traditional forms of action? This article explores the forms of action adopted by participants in two Fridays For Future (FFF) strikes, focusing on the repertoires of action of (young) climate justice protesters. We draw on protest survey data covering the FFF demonstrations held in 15 European countries in March and September 2019. Starting from a sharp generational contrast between the importance given to individual lifestyle changes in addressing the climate emergency, we investigate whether this results in significant generational differences in the choice of the repertoires of action. Challenging the vision of young people as ‘disaffected citizens’, it is demonstrated that young protesters do not participate less in claim-based action than older cohorts. Furthermore, a process of politicisation can be seen to be unfolding that leads to increased commitment in both lifestyle and political forms of participation – at least among active milieus.
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il Mulino, 2019
L'Italia della crisi appare schiacciata tra apatia e risentimento. Ma guardando in basso, si ... more L'Italia della crisi appare schiacciata tra apatia e risentimento. Ma guardando in basso, si possono vedere forme di resistenza che raramente emergono sulla scena pubblica, e che riattualizzano l'azione collettiva, riposizionando l'individuo nella sfera pubblica. Dalle grandi organizzazioni sociali alle occupazioni abitative, dai gruppi di acquisto solidale alle fabbriche recuperate, passando per i circoli culturali e le sperimentazioni di welfare dal basso; gli autori indagano i percorsi seguiti dai diversi attori collettivi verso l'azione sociale diretta, e le loro conseguenze nel produrre cambiamento nella societ\ue0 e nella politica
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European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2020
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Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2015
This article analyses continuities and discontinuities across time in Italy in the use of direct ... more 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 offers two main illustrative hypotheses. First, that direct social actions represent a significant part of the repertoire of contention - at least in Italy - and that while they tend to be less visible than protest actions, they should still not be overlooked and treated like something “new” every time they resurface. Second, this article claims that the socio-economic context plays an important role in influencing the extended use of DSAs: if the supply of these forms of action by political actors is constant across time, what changes is the demand, that in times of economic hardship tends to characterise a broader constituency. We conclude by ...
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In September 2019, the third Global Climate Strike organized by the Fridays For Future (FFF) prot... more In September 2019, the third Global Climate Strike organized by the Fridays For Future (FFF) protest campaign mobilized 6000 protest events in 185 countries and brought 7.6 million participants out ...
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Citizens and the Crisis, 2018
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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements, 2019
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Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2019
In the context of the economic crisis, research on collective action has increasingly focused dir... more In the context of the economic crisis, research on collective action has increasingly focused direct social actions, that escape the traditional state-addressing repertoires of action and focus on a self-changing society: boycotts, solidarity action, political consumerism, alternative finance (e.g. crowdfunding, food banks), collective purchasing groups, occupations, self-management, free legal advice and medical services, to mention just a few. This article aims to address the issue of direct social action as a response to welfare retrenchment in the context of the economic crisis in Italy, focusing in particular on actors with a background in protest and social movement milieus. How do these actors keep protest and direct social action together? How do they justify the choice to engage in direct social action? How do they make sense of the contradiction between service-providing and claim-making? And what are the consequences of the choice of these forms of action on their identit...
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This article analyses how contrasting movements compete over the issue of migration in Italy and ... more This article analyses how contrasting movements compete over the issue of migration in Italy and points out a significant role of the state in shaping this competition. While the so-called \uabrefugee crisis\ubb paved the way to multiple forms of action in support and against the arrival of migrants and asylum seekers, traditional social movement approaches fall short in explaining the dynamics between opposing camps, as scholars tended to focus on individual movements as isolated actors. To address this gap, we look at movement-countermovement dynamics in the field of migration between 2015 and 2017, to understand how contrasting actors frame causes and solutions for the problems at stake. Based on new empirical data from over 30 face-to-face interviews with activists, the article shows that, while discursive opportunities trigger conflicting interpretations of the same themes, competition between the anti-refugee and solidarity camp is asymmetric, both with regard to the definition of the issue and to the identification of political opponents. We show that the ambiguous position of the centre-left government in the management of immigration in Italy between 2015 and 2017 tipped the balance of the competition in the migration battleground, ultimately giving a crucial advantage to anti-refugee actors in the promotion of hegemonic frames
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Among these factors, collective memories are particularly relevant: they can help collective action by providing symbolic material from the past, but at the same time they can constrain people's ability to mobilise by imposing proscriptions and prescriptions. This book analyses the relationship between social movements and collective memories: how do social movements participate in the building of public memory? And how does public memory, and in particular the media’s representation of a contentious past, influence strategic choices in contemporary movements? To answer these questions the book draws its focus on the evolution of the representation of specific events in the Italian and Spanish student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Furthermore, through qualitative interviews to contemporary student activists in
both countries, it investigates the role of past waves of contention in shaping the present through the publicly discussed image of the past.
illustrate how social movements contribute to the epistemic construction of ‘crises’ of European Integration. To tackle politicization,
we compare the framing and mobilization choices by grassroots
actors in solidarity with asylum-seekers and groups aiming to
defend national borders from them. Using original Protest Event
data and 21 face-to-face interviews, we find that the construction of
the crisis as a policy failure crucially reshaped mobilization on both
sides of the conflict. Specifically, direct social actions allowed the
two camps to respond to a context perceived as critical, politicizing
the crisis in light of the declining trust in representative institutions,
while also responding to the growing demand for efficacy and
concreteness. The findings offer novel empirical insight on movement–countermovement interactions and contribute to the scholarly debate on the relation between crises and the politicisation of
contentious issues in Europe