Institutional address:
European University Institute
SPS Department,
Via dei Roccettini, 9
I - 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (Firenze),
Italy

Email: mandrett@eui.eu

Webpage: http://www.unifi.it/grace/breve%20massimo%20inglese.htm

Research key words:
non conventional political participation; social movements; deliberative democracy.

Additional info on research:

Massimiliano Andretta holds a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Florence, and coordinates research on new forms of collective political participation in Europe within GRACE (Group of Research on Collective Action in Europe) directed by Donatella Della Porta.
His Ph.D. focused on political representation of groups and movements which work on immigration and environmental issues in two different local contexts: Palermo and Florence.
He has been working with Donatella Della Porta on a research project financed by the European Commission on the Transformation of Environmental Activism (TEA project); on a research project, funded by the Italian Ministry for University Education and Research (MURST) on political representation and citizens' committees in different Italian cities; and on a comparative research project on "local social forums" through participant observation and interviews with activists on the issue of democratic participation in Italy. He is currently research assistant at the European University Institute in Florence.

Main publications:

"Global, No global New Global," with Donatella della Porta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter (Laterza 2002, also published in German with Campus 2003);"A Movement of Movements. Transnational Activists and Protest Networks," with with Donatella della Porta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).

Institutional address:
Instituto de Estudios Sociales de Andalucía (IESA)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Campo Santo de los Mártires, 7
E-14004 Córdoba, Spain

Email: angel.calle@nodo50.org

Research key words:
social movements, globalisation, global protests.

Main publications:

Ph. D. in Sociology, Thesis "Los nuevos movimientos globale. Una nueva cultura de movilización" (New Global Movements. A new culture of mobilization).

Calle, A., 2000, Ciudadanía y Solidaridad. Las ONGDs como movimiento social, Madrid, IEPALA.

Institutional address:
Université Paris 1,
14 rue Cujas 75231
Paris Cedex 05

Email: combeshvc@yahoo.com

Webpage:
http://www.afsp.msh-paris.fr/activite/salontez4/cv04/cvcombes.pdf

Research key words:
political parties; social movements; network analysis; Latin America.

Main publications:

Phd dissertation: "De la politique contestataire à la fabrique partisane. Le cas du Parti de la révolution démocratique au Mexique. 1989-2000". Université Paris III, La Sorbonne Nouvelle, novembre 2004.

Combes, H., 2000, "El PRD y las manifestaciones callejeras (1998-1999)", Anuario de Estudios Urbanos, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Unidad Atzcapotzalco, p.309-335.

Combes, H., 2002, "Un cas d'école. Fraudes électorales et instrumentation du vote dans la transition mexicaine", Genèses, n°49, p. 48-68.

Combes, H., 2006, "Primaries, Internal Elections and Democratic Transition. The case of the Democratic Revolution Party in Mexico (1989 - 2001)", Party Politics, (article accepté, à paraître au premier semestre 2005).

Institutional address:
University of Geneva
Uni Mail
40, bd du Pont-d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneve 4

Email: nina.eggert@politic.unige.ch

Research key words:
Social movements; integration/exclusion; active citizenship; political participation.

Main publications:

Nina Eggert is currently involved as a research assistant on a project focusing on the integration and the political participation of immigrants at the local level, directed by Marco Giugni. She is member of the Research Group on Active Citizenship (GRECA).

Email: mkoehler@crbm.org

Additional info on research:
Martin Köhler holds a M.A. from the free University of Berlin, Institute of Political sciences, Department on International Relations. He was formerly member and co-ordinator of the European research group "The political theory of transnational democracy", at the international foundational Lelio Basso, Rome; research fellow of the Centro de Investigación para la Paz (CIP), Madrid; fellow of the foundation Friedrich-Ebert, Bonn, on security policy in Italy and Europe after the end of the east-west conflict; fellow of the Volkswagen foundation at the Berghof Institute for Conflict Research, Berlin; convenor of the expo 2000 Global Dialogue "responsible governance in a global society", on behalf of the Society for International Development. Currently, he is Director of Programmes and responsible for the Global Finance Program of the "Campaign to reform the world bank", Rome, Italy.

Main publications:

Köhler, M., 2001, "Structural adjustment programmes in the Mediterranean" in Frank Amalric and Marikki Stocchetti (eds.), The European Union facing global responsibility. Past records, future challenges, p. 105-109.

Köhler, M., 1998, "From the national to the cosmopolitan public sphere" in Daniele Archibugi, David Held and Martin Kohler (eds.), Re-imagining political community. Studies in cosmopolitan theory, Cambridge/Stanford, p. 231-251.

Köhler, M., 1997, "Towards a cosmopolitan public sphere", in Peace Review, 9(3), p. 385-391, special issue on "Global Democracy" edited by D. Archibugi and M. Köhler.

Personal address:
via Lucrino, 18
00199 Roma

Email: r.marchetti @uniurb.it

Research key words:
global justice; democracy; migration; UNO; transnational social movements.

Short biographic note:
Raffaele Marchetti (Roma, 1975) is a research associate at the University of Urbino. He holds a degree (Laurea) in Philosophy from the University of Rome La Sapienza and a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was formerly a CNR junior research fellow at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and a visiting student at the European University Institute and at the University of Nottingham. His research interests concern International Political Theory.

Main publications:

Marchetti, R., 2005, Consequentialist Cosmopolitanism and Global Political Agency, in J. Eade and D. O'Byrne (eds.), Global Ethics and Civil Society, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Marchetti, R., 2004, Cittadinanza cosmopolitica e migrazione (Cosmopolitan Citizenship and Migration), in Teoria Politica, XX, n. 1: 41-56.

Institutional address:
European University Institute
SPS Department,
Via dei Roccettini, 9
I - 50016 San Domenico (Firenze),
Italy

Email: lmosca@eui.eu

Webpage:
http://www.unifi.it/grace/breve%20lorenzo%20inglese.htm

Research key words:
global justice movement, social forums, public sphere, Computer-Mediated Communication and collective action.

Additional info on research:
Lorenzo Mosca has recently completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Florence ("The Effects of new Information and Communication Technologies on Social Movements"). His research interests focus on new forms of political participation, global justice movement, and socio-political effects of Computer Mediated Communication.
As a member of the Research Group on Collective Action in Europe (GRACE, http://www.unifi.it/grace), he has contributed to the project on "The Transformation of Political Mobilisation and Communication in European Public Spheres" (Europub), funded by the European Commission's 5th framework program. He worked on the analysis of Internet websites of social movement organizations in Italy. He has also collaborated in several surveys on protest events like Genoa's antiG8 mobilization (2001), the first European social forum (Florence, 2002) and the International Peace Protest (February 2003) against the war in Iraq. He is currently doing comparative research on "local social forums" through participant observation and interviews with activists on the issue of democratic participation in Italy. As a research associate, he recently joined the e-democracy centre project directed by Alexander H. Trechsel. He is currently research assistant on the DEMOS project at the European University Institute in Florence.


Main publications

“Understanding the Genoa protest” with Massimilano Andretta (in Creating a better world, edited by Rupert Taylor, Kumarian press, 2004).

co-editor (with Donatella della Porta) Globalizzazione e Movimenti Sociali (Rome: Manifestolibri 2003).

“A Movement of Movements. Transnational Activists and Protest Networks,” with Donatella della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta and Herbert Reiter (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).

Institutional address:
European University Institute
SPS Department,
Via dei Roccettini, 9
I - 50016 San Domenico (Firenze),
Italy

Email: herbert.reiter@eui.eu

Webpage: http://www.unifi.it/grace/breve%20herbert%20inglese.htm

Research key words:
Political asylum in the 19th century; policing protest; the Italian judiciary in the 1960s and 1970s.

Main publications:

Reiter, H., 1992, Politisches Asyl im 19. Jahrhundert. Die deutschen politischen Flüchtlinge des Vormärz und der Revolution von 1848/49 in Europa und den USA. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

Reiter, H., della Porta, D., eds., Policing Protest: The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1998.

Reiter, H., Andretta, M., della Porta, D., Mosca, L., 2002, Global, noglobal, new global. La protesta contro il G8 a Genova. Roma-Bari: Laterza.

Reiter, H., Andretta, M., della Porta, D., Mosca, L., 2003, No Global - New Global. Identität und Strategien der Antiglobalisierungsbewegung. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Reiter, H., della Porta, D., 2003, Polizia e protesta. L'ordine pubblico dalla Liberazione ai "no global". Bologna: Il Mulino.

Reiter, H., 2003, 'Verfassungsverwirklichung, Reform und "contestazione". Die italienische Richterschaft in den sechziger und frühen siebziger Jahren', in: Jörg Requate (ed.): Recht und Justiz in der gesellschaftlichen Umbruchperiode der 1960er und frühen 1970er Jahre. Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Italien und Frankreich im Vergleich, Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag, 201-219.

Reiter, H., della Porta, D., 2004, La protesta e il controllo. Movimenti e forze dell'ordine nell'era della globalizzazione. Milano: Altraeconomia /Piacenza: Berti.

Institutional address:
Centre for the Study of Social & Political Movements
SSPSSR
University of Kent at Canterbury
CT2 7NF

Email: c.e.saunders@kent.ac.uk

Webpage:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/Saunders.htm

Research key words:
social movements, social networks, environmentalism, global justice movement.

Main publications:

Saunders, C., 2005, Collaboration, competition and conflict: Social movement and interaction dynamics in London's environmental movement, PhD thesis, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Saunders, C., 2003, A clear cut case of blurred boundaries, the problem of delineating the British environmental movement, in C. Barker and M. Tyldesley (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester Metropolitan University, 22-24 April 2003.

Rootes, C., Saunders, C., 2001, Campaigns against the Channel Tunnel Rail Link 1981-1992, Centre for the Study of Social & Political Movements working paper, University of Kent.

Rootes, C., Saunders, C., Adams, D., 2001, Local Environmental Politics in England, Centre for the Study of Social & Political Movements working paper, University of Kent.

She has published book reviews in Environmental Politics and Political Studies.

Institutional address:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Germany

Email: teune@wz-berlin.de

Webpage:
http://www.wz-berlin.de/zkd/zcm/leute/teune.en.htm

Research key words:
Social Movements, Culture, Social Change, Media, Public Space.

Main publications:

Teune, S., 2005, ?Wie ein Fisch im Wasser der Zeichenwelt. Spassguerilla seit den 1960er Jahren?, in D. Rucht and S. Reichardt (eds.), Politischer Protest und Öffentlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert. Studien zur Steuerung und Resonanz politischer Proteste in Deutschland (forthcoming).

Blickhan, M., Teune, S., 2003, ?Die Lust am Ausnahmezustand - Der 1. Mai im Spiegel der Medien?, in D. Rucht (ed.), Berlin, 1. Mai 2002. Politische Demonstrationsrituale, Opladen: Leske + Budrich, pp. 185 - 220.

Casquete, J., Rucht, D., Teune, S., 2003, ?Vergleich und Zusammenfassung?, in D. Rucht (ed.), Berlin, 1. Mai 2002. Politische Demonstrationsrituale, Opladen: Leske + Budrich, pp. 221 - 248.

Institutional address:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Germany

Email: mundo@wz-berlin.de

Webpage:
http://www.wz-berlin.de/zkd/people/yang.en.htm

Research key words:
Social movements, International Politics, Mass media, Internet.

Main publications:

Yang, M., Rucht, D. 2004, "Wer demonstrierte gegen Hartz IV??, in Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen, 17 (4), 21-27.

Name: Duccio Zola

Institutional address:
Lunaria
Via Salaria, 89
00198 - Roma
Italy

Email: globi@lunaria.org

Research key words:
deliberative democracy; public sphere; global social movements.

Additional info on research:
Duccio Zola holds a degree in Political Philosophy at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and is a Master level student at the same university.
His studies focus on the relation between deliberative democracy and the politics of recognition at a global level. He is currently research assistant for the Demos project, with Professor Mario Pianta, based in Lunaria, Rome.

Main publications:

He is the author (with Mario Pianta and Federico Silva) of "Global Civil Society Events: Parallel Summits, Social Fora, Global Days of Action", website section of "Global Civil Society 2004/5", yearbook of the London School of Economics and Political Science (http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Yearbook/updateparallelsummits.pdf). He contributes to the Italian monthly review Lo Straniero and to Il Manifesto.