Elisa Lello
University of Urbino
Italy

Elisa Lello is assistant professor 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.

Niccolò Bertuzzi
University of Parma
Italy

Niccolò Bertuzzi is assistant professor 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. 

Marco Pedroni
University of Ferrara
Italy

Marco Pedroni is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Ferrara (Italy). His work is mainly focused on digital media, fashion and cultural industries. He is the author of Coolhunting (FrancoAngeli, 2010), a co-author of Fenomenologia dei social network (Guerini, 2017), a co-editor of Moda e arte (FrancoAngeli, 2012) and Fashion Tales: Feeding the Imaginary (Peter Lang, 2017), the editor of From Production to Consumption: The Cultural Industry of Fashion (Interdisciplinary, 2013) and a co-editor of I media e la moda (Carocci, 2022). His works have been published in peer-reviewed journals like Fashion Theory, Poetics and The Journal of Consumer Culture. On the issue of the pandemic, he has published essays on the media narratives of the Covid-19 emergency and the polarisation of public debate and conducted qualitative research on ‘no-vaxxers’ and hesitants.

Luca Raffini
University of Genoa
Italy

Luca Raffini is an Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Genoa (Italy). His research has focused on social and political change, the relationship between individual and collective action, participation, social innovation, mobility and migration, political communication. He has recently been investigating conflicts over science and health, with particular reference to the pandemic context. Recent publications include Mobilità e migrazioni, con A. Giorgi (Milano, 2020) and Giovani e politica. La reinvenzione del sociale, con A. Pirni (Milano, 2022). On the topic of the consequences of the pandemic, he has co-edited, with L. Alteri, L. Parks, T. Vitale, the monographic issue of PACO, (3/2021) Covid-19 and the Structural Crisis of Liberal Democracies. Determinants and Consequences of the Governance of Pandemic.