Democracy

The working group Democracy is aimed at analyzing some of the major challenges that contemporary democracies are facing nowadays. The main goal of the working group consists thus in the development of a fruitful dialogue between scholars of the Department of Sociology and Social Research and internationally renowned experts in the fields of interest, interconnecting different theoretical, empirical and disciplinary perspectives.

Main topics under discussion

• States, supranational institutions and populisms

• Gender relations and intersectionality

• Migration and new borders

• Processes of racialization and social exclusion

• Political violence and security politics

Project Manager: Marina Calloni.

Research Team: Marco Grasso, Marcello Maneri, Leonard Mazzone, Fulvia Mecatti, Fabio Quassoli, Walter Privitera, Tanja Sekulic, Giorgia Serughetti