Luca Alteri
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy

Luca Alteri is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sapienza University in Rome (Department of Communication and Social Research). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the following reviews: «Rivista delle Politiche Sociali», «Partecipazione e Conflitto», «Rivista di Studi Politici», and he collaborates with the Italian version of Le Monde Diplomatique. Among his recent works: Politica e violenza. Teorie e pratiche del conflitto sociale, edited by L. Alteri, X. Chiaramonte, and A. Senaldi.

Louisa Parks
University of Trento
Italy

Louisa Parks is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Trento. Her research has focused on the impacts of social movements on European Union legislation, framing in the environmental movement, global civil society, local community activism and the inclusion of local communities and indigenous peoples in global environmental governance with a focus on the Convention on Biological Diversity. Her work includes the books Social Movement Campaigns on European Policy: in the corridors and in the streets, published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, and Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance: local experiences of a global concept, published in 2020 by Routledge in open access and shortlisted for the Hart-SLSA prize.

Luca Raffini
University of Genoa
Italy

Luca Raffini is Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Genoa. His research has focused on social and political change, the relation between individual and collective action, participation, social innovation, mobility and migration, urban governance, political communication. Among his recent works: Il Tramonto della città. La metropoli globale tra nuovi modelli produttivi e crisi della cittadinanza, con A. Barile e L. Alteri (Roma, 2019) and Mobilità e migrazioni, con A. Giorgi (Milano, 2020).

Tommaso Vitale
Sciences Po, Paris
France

Tommaso Vitale is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po (Paris, France) where he is the scientific director of the MA program on “Governing the Large Metropolis” (Urban School). He is an affiliate of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and of the “Cities are Back in Town” research program. His current research topics relate to structural contexts of opportunities and Roma upward social mobility and integration in European cities. He is also studying the relation between urban residential segregation and collective action, volunteering, and electoral behavior. He has been a visiting researcher at the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (Bloomington, Indiana University).