Niccolò Bertuzzi
University of Parma
Italy

Niccolò Bertuzzi is a Researcher in Political Sociology at the University of Parma (Italy), and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Barcelona (Spain), where he previously worked as a Maria Zambrano Fellow. He is also a member of several research networks, such as COSMOS (Centre on Social Movement Studies) and POE (Politics Ontology Ecology). He obtained his PhD in Applied Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at University Milano-Bicocca. His scholarship has been published in important academic journals, among which: American Behavioral Scientists, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Sociology Compass, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Social Movement Studies, Journal of Consumer Culture. Among his main research interests: social movement studies, prefigurative politics, alternatives to capitalism, political ecology.

Erica Lagalisse
London School of Economics and Political Science
United Kingdom

Erica Lagalisse is an anthropologist of social movements, postdoctoral fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics, visiting researcher at the Anarchism Research Group at the University of Loughborough, and editor at The Sociological Review.  Her most recent publications include Occult Features of Anarchism (PM Press, 2019), published as Anarcoccultismo (D Editore, 2020) in Italian, and the “Anthropology” chapter in the Handbook of Marxism (SAGE, 2022).

Elisa Lello
University of Urbino
Italy

Elisa Lello is a Researcher in Sociology at the University of Urbino (Italy). Her research interests mainly focus on emerging forms of political engagement, the younger generations’ approach to politics, and the relationship between territorial inequalities and populism. Her works have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Rural Sociology, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Modern Italy, Polis, Sociologia urbana e rurale. She has published some articles and contributions focused on political mobilizations dealing with health issues since the controversy about the 2017 Italian law extending paediatric vaccine mandates, including Populismo anti-scientifico o nodi irrisolti della biomedicina? Prospettive a confronto intorno al movimento free vax (Anti-scientific populism or biomedicine’s unresolved knots? Comparing perspectives about the movements for the freedom of choice on vaccines), Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 3, 2020.

Giampietro Gobo
University of University of Milan
Italy

Giampietro Gobo is professor of Sociology of Science at the University of Milan (Italy). His interests concern with scientific controversies on health issues. He is currently undertaking projects on the immunization and Covid-19 policies. His latest books are Merged Methods: A Rationale for Full Integration (with N. Fielding, G. La Rocca, and W. van der Vaar, Sage, 2021), and Science, Technology and Society: An Introduction (with V. Marcheselli, Palgrave, 2023).

Barbara Sena
University of Bergamo
Italy

Barbara Sena, European Ph.D in Socio-economic and statistical studies, is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergamo, Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication. Her research interests and publications include qualitative research methods, sociological theories and health issues. Her recent publications are on case study approach, interprofessional care and vaccination hesitancy.