Gianni Piazza
Biographic Data
| ID | 641735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gianni Piazza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gianni |
| FAMILY NAME | Piazza |
| SIGNATURE | PIAZZA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Catania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5173-1573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities
Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Ca…
The protests of migrants in Sicily: Why are there few and only single-issue
Sicily is one of the most important “gates of Europe” for migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The recent chronicles are full of migrants’ journeys, often ending in real tragedies, across the Mediterranean sea to reach the coast of Sicily, first Lampedusa. Sicily has become the arrival place of migrants fleeing from wars, hunger and misery, a hub of passage for those who want to continue to Northern Italy and Europe (especially France, Germa…
Squatting Social Centres in a Sicilian City: Liberated Spaces and Urban Protest Actors
The Social Centres in Italy are simultaneously “liberated spaces”, empty and unused large buildings squatted by groups of radical left/antagonist activists to self‐manage social and countercultural activities, and “political contentious places”. They are indeed urban but not only local protest actors, denouncing the scarcity of spaces of sociability outside of commercial circuits, campaigning against market‐oriented urban renewal, property specul…
Between political opportunities and strategic dilemmas: The choice of ‘double track’ by the activists of an occupied social centre in Italy
According to the political opportunity structure (POS) framework, mobilization tends to intensify when channels of access to the authorities open, leading the protest actors to hope for success. This happened during the protest campaign aimed at the reopening of the occupied Social Centre ‘Experia’ in Catania (Italy), after the eviction by police, because unexpectedly moderate centre-left political actors supported mobilization and the centre-rig…
Il movimento delle occupazioni di squat e centri sociali in Europa. Una introduzione
This article is available on the website of the old publisher Franco Angeli ( http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=152 )
Come decidono gli attivisti all'interno dei Centri Sociali? Uno studio comparato delle occupazioni in una cittŕ italiana
The Social Centres in Italy are autonomous groups set up by left-wing radical activists, who occupy and/or self-manage unused buildings, where they organize political campaigns, social and countercultural activities. In this article, a typology of decision-making and internal democracy models, based on decisional method and preferences' treatment adopted (Consensual vs. Majoritarian), is here proposed and tested through the binary comparison of t…
‘Locally unwanted land use’ movements: The role of left-wing parties and groups in trans-territorial conflicts in Italy
In recent years in Italy there have been numerous conflicts related to locally unwanted land use (‘Lulu’). Some have taken on a political dimension that goes beyond the local, becoming ‘trans-territorial’, as they link with similar conflicts elsewhere. This article analyses the role of various left-wing parties and groups (moderate, radical, antagonist) in these conflicts, examining four specific Lulu movements: those against the high-speed rail …
Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change
Le sinistre nel movimento per la giustizia globale: Ascesa e declino dell'attivismo transnazionale? Una introduzione
Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities
Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Ca…
Local contention, global framing: The protest campaigns against the TAV in Val di Susa and the bridge on the Messina Straits
Two cases of long-lasting environmental conflicts in Italy - one against the construction of a high-speed railway in Val di Susa, the other against the building of a bridge across the Messina Straits - are analysed. Recent social scientific literature has considered such conflicts as either Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY), egotistical and antimodernist, or as a progressive defence of the quality of life in a territory. A characteristic of both these …
I Parlamentari Di Forza Italia: Un Gruppo a Sostegno Di Una Leadership
IntroduzioneTra le molteplici ragioni che sollecitano uno studio del fenomeno Forza Italia, sono precipuamente due quelle da cui muove il nostro articolo. La prima è l'esigenza di fornire un contributo alla conoscenza di un fenomeno così nuovo ed originale da rendere complicato anche il semplice etichettamento. Come altrove, anche in campo politologico il termine più utilizzato per qualificare questo tipo di partito è stato quello di «azienda», c…
Local contention, global framing: The protest campaigns against the TAV in Val di Susa and the bridge on the Messina Straits
Two cases of long-lasting environmental conflicts in Italy - one against the construction of a high-speed railway in Val di Susa, the other against the building of a bridge across the Messina Straits - are analysed. Recent social scientific literature has considered such conflicts as either Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY), egotistical and antimodernist, or as a progressive defence of the quality of life in a territory. A characteristic of both these …
Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change
Il movimento delle occupazioni di squat e centri sociali in Europa. Una introduzione
This article is available on the website of the old publisher Franco Angeli ( http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=152 )
Squatting Social Centres in a Sicilian City: Liberated Spaces and Urban Protest Actors
The Social Centres in Italy are simultaneously “liberated spaces”, empty and unused large buildings squatted by groups of radical left/antagonist activists to self‐manage social and countercultural activities, and “political contentious places”. They are indeed urban but not only local protest actors, denouncing the scarcity of spaces of sociability outside of commercial circuits, campaigning against market‐oriented urban renewal, property specul…
I Parlamentari Di Forza Italia: Un Gruppo a Sostegno Di Una Leadership
IntroduzioneTra le molteplici ragioni che sollecitano uno studio del fenomeno Forza Italia, sono precipuamente due quelle da cui muove il nostro articolo. La prima è l'esigenza di fornire un contributo alla conoscenza di un fenomeno così nuovo ed originale da rendere complicato anche il semplice etichettamento. Come altrove, anche in campo politologico il termine più utilizzato per qualificare questo tipo di partito è stato quello di «azienda», c…
Between political opportunities and strategic dilemmas: The choice of ‘double track’ by the activists of an occupied social centre in Italy
According to the political opportunity structure (POS) framework, mobilization tends to intensify when channels of access to the authorities open, leading the protest actors to hope for success. This happened during the protest campaign aimed at the reopening of the occupied Social Centre ‘Experia’ in Catania (Italy), after the eviction by police, because unexpectedly moderate centre-left political actors supported mobilization and the centre-rig…
The protests of migrants in Sicily: Why are there few and only single-issue
Sicily is one of the most important “gates of Europe” for migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The recent chronicles are full of migrants’ journeys, often ending in real tragedies, across the Mediterranean sea to reach the coast of Sicily, first Lampedusa. Sicily has become the arrival place of migrants fleeing from wars, hunger and misery, a hub of passage for those who want to continue to Northern Italy and Europe (especially France, Germa…
I Parlamentari Di Forza Italia: Un Gruppo a Sostegno Di Una Leadership
IntroduzioneTra le molteplici ragioni che sollecitano uno studio del fenomeno Forza Italia, sono precipuamente due quelle da cui muove il nostro articolo. La prima è l'esigenza di fornire un contributo alla conoscenza di un fenomeno così nuovo ed originale da rendere complicato anche il semplice etichettamento. Come altrove, anche in campo politologico il termine più utilizzato per qualificare questo tipo di partito è stato quello di «azienda», c…
Local contention, global framing: The protest campaigns against the TAV in Val di Susa and the bridge on the Messina Straits
Two cases of long-lasting environmental conflicts in Italy - one against the construction of a high-speed railway in Val di Susa, the other against the building of a bridge across the Messina Straits - are analysed. Recent social scientific literature has considered such conflicts as either Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY), egotistical and antimodernist, or as a progressive defence of the quality of life in a territory. A characteristic of both these …
Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities
Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Ca…
Le sinistre nel movimento per la giustizia globale: Ascesa e declino dell'attivismo transnazionale? Una introduzione
‘Locally unwanted land use’ movements: The role of left-wing parties and groups in trans-territorial conflicts in Italy
In recent years in Italy there have been numerous conflicts related to locally unwanted land use (‘Lulu’). Some have taken on a political dimension that goes beyond the local, becoming ‘trans-territorial’, as they link with similar conflicts elsewhere. This article analyses the role of various left-wing parties and groups (moderate, radical, antagonist) in these conflicts, examining four specific Lulu movements: those against the high-speed rail …
Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change
Il movimento delle occupazioni di squat e centri sociali in Europa. Una introduzione
This article is available on the website of the old publisher Franco Angeli ( http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=152 )
Come decidono gli attivisti all'interno dei Centri Sociali? Uno studio comparato delle occupazioni in una cittŕ italiana
The Social Centres in Italy are autonomous groups set up by left-wing radical activists, who occupy and/or self-manage unused buildings, where they organize political campaigns, social and countercultural activities. In this article, a typology of decision-making and internal democracy models, based on decisional method and preferences' treatment adopted (Consensual vs. Majoritarian), is here proposed and tested through the binary comparison of t…
Between political opportunities and strategic dilemmas: The choice of ‘double track’ by the activists of an occupied social centre in Italy
According to the political opportunity structure (POS) framework, mobilization tends to intensify when channels of access to the authorities open, leading the protest actors to hope for success. This happened during the protest campaign aimed at the reopening of the occupied Social Centre ‘Experia’ in Catania (Italy), after the eviction by police, because unexpectedly moderate centre-left political actors supported mobilization and the centre-rig…
Squatting Social Centres in a Sicilian City: Liberated Spaces and Urban Protest Actors
The Social Centres in Italy are simultaneously “liberated spaces”, empty and unused large buildings squatted by groups of radical left/antagonist activists to self‐manage social and countercultural activities, and “political contentious places”. They are indeed urban but not only local protest actors, denouncing the scarcity of spaces of sociability outside of commercial circuits, campaigning against market‐oriented urban renewal, property specul…
Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities
Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Ca…
The protests of migrants in Sicily: Why are there few and only single-issue
Sicily is one of the most important “gates of Europe” for migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The recent chronicles are full of migrants’ journeys, often ending in real tragedies, across the Mediterranean sea to reach the coast of Sicily, first Lampedusa. Sicily has become the arrival place of migrants fleeing from wars, hunger and misery, a hub of passage for those who want to continue to Northern Italy and Europe (especially France, Germa…
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