Here you can find a selection of my published works in and outside academia, which includes peer reviewed articles, book chapters, working papers and op-eds.

 

Articles

• 2023 Social movements in Southeast Europe: from urban mobilisation to electoral competition. Co-authored with Danijela Dolenec. East European Politics
• 2023 Emotions in action. The role of emotions in refugee solidarity activism. Sociological Forum 38 (3), pp. 813-829 (Open Access)
• 2023 Grassroots European solidarity. Italian solidarity movements in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and 2020s and their visions of Europe. Co-authored with L. Chiodi. Southeastern Europe 46 (3), pp. 248-270 (Open Access)
• 2023 From the streets to the town halls. Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space. Urban Studies 60 (11), pp. 2158-2175
• 2022 Navigating Ethnicity. Collective identities and movement framing in deeply divided societies. Nationalities Papers 50 (6), pp. 1057-1070
• 2022 Claiming rights. Mobilization of youth of migrant descent for access to citizenship rights in Italy. Citizenship Studies 26 (3), pp. 322-339
• 2022 The mobilization for spatial justice in divided societies. Urban commons, trust reconstruction and socialist memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina. East European Politics & Societies and Cultures,  36 (2), pp. 669-691 (Open Access)
• 2021 Contemporary Urban Commons. Rebuilding the Analytical Framework. Partecipazione e conflitto/Participation and Conflict, 14 (1), pp.396-410 (Open Access)
• 2021 Fighting gentrification from the boxing ring: How community gyms reclaim the right to the city, co-authored with S. Milan. Social Movement Studies 20 (6), pp. 722-739 (Open Access)
• 2020 Refugee solidarity along the Western Balkans route, new challenges and a change of strategy in times of COVID-19 Interface 12 (1), July 2020, pp. 208-212
• 2020 Beyond Europe. Alternative visions of Europe amongst young activists in self-managed spaces in Italy European Journal of Political and Cultural Sociology 7 (3), pp. 242-264 (Open Access)
• 2019 Rebelling against Time: Recreational Activism as Political Practice among the Italian Precarious Youth, American Behavioral Scientist 63 (11), pp. 1519-1538 (Open Access)
• 2018 Refugees at the gates of the EU: Civic initiatives and grassroots responses to the refugee crisis along the Western Balkans route, Journal of Balkans and Near Eastern Studies, 21 (1), pp. 43-60
• 2017 Rising against the “thieves”: Anti-corruption campaigns in the Western Balkans, Partecipazione e conflitto/Participation and Conflict, 10 (3), pp. 826-849
• 2017 Reshaping Citizenship through Collective Action: Performative and Prefigurative Practices in the 2013–2014 Cycle of Contention in Bosnia & Hercegovina, Europe-Asia Studies, 69 (9), pp. 1346-1361
• 2017  “The evolution of civil society in Bosnia Herzegovina from the late ‘80s to nowadays: a historical perspective”, Tiempo Devorado, Passing Through Storms: Elites and Social Change across the post-Yugoslav Space, 4: 2, pp. 272-296

 

Book chapters

• 2021 “The need for a more progressive region”, chapter of The Pandemics in the Balkans. Geopolitics and Democracy at Stake ed. G. Fruscione. Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) Report, Milan, pp. 70-85
• 2020  “The importance of social movements in the Western Balkans”, in The Balkans: Old, New Instabilities. A European region looking for its place in the world. ed. G. Fruscione. Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) Report, Milan, pp. 114- 133
• 2018 “‘Missing the Forest for the Trees’: From Single-Issue Protest to Resonant Mass Movements in Greece, Turkey, and Bosnia-Herzegovina”, co-authored with Leonidas Oikonomakis, in Social Movements in the Balkans. Rebellion and Protest from Maribor to Taksim, Florian Bieber (ed.), London: Routledge, pp. 113-130
• 2018 “Emotions that mobilise: the emotional basis of pro-asylum seekers activism in Austria”, in Contentious moves: Solidarity mobilizations in the ‘Long Summer of Migration’, Donatella della Porta (ed.), London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183-208
• 2018 “Interwoven destinies in the long migration summer: Solidarity movements along the Western Balkan route”, co-authored with Andrea Pirro, in Contentious moves: Solidarity mobilizations in the ‘Long Summer of Migration’, Donatella della Porta (ed.), London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125-153
• 2018 “Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Workers’ Strike to Social Uprising”, in The Class Strikes Back. Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century, Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft (eds.), Amsterdam: Brill, pp. 155-175
• 2017 “‘Sow hunger, reap anger’”: From neoliberal privatization to new collective identities in Bosnia Herzegovina, in Global diffusion of protest. Riding the protest wave in the neoliberal crisis, Donatella della Porta (ed.), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 167-189
• 2016 “Involving communities as skilled learners: The STRAP (Sharing, Translation, Relevance, Accountability, Power) framework”, co-authored with Stefania Milan, in Methodological Reflection on Researching Communication and Social Change, Wildermuth, Norbert and Teke Ngomba (eds.), Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 9-28

 

Working papers

• 2014  Neither bilateral nor multilateral: The community approach to local development. The case of the long-term relationship between the communities of Trento (Italy) and Prijedor (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jean Monnet Papers on Political Economy, University of the Peloponnese, n. 8/2014

 

Book reviews

• 2021 Don Kalb and Massimiliano Mollona, eds: Worldwide Mobilizations. Class Struggles and Urban Commoning (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018), Comparative Southeast European Studies 69 (1), pp. 153-56 https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2021-2007 
• 2019 Jasmin Mujanović: Hunger And Fury: The Crisis Of Democracy In The Balkans (C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2018), Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 20 (1), pp. 239-40 doi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2019.1681671

 

Outside Academia

• I am a recurrent author for East Journal (online) and Most (printed edition). Here you can access all the articles I wrote so far for both
• From the streets to the town halls: local governance and municipalist platforms in Croatia and Serbia, Minim Municipalism Observatory, https://minim-municipalism.org/magazine/from-the-streets-to-the-town-halls-local-governance-and-municipalist-platforms-in-croatia-and-serbia/, 26 November 2019
• Migranti, la solidarietà si sposta da Belgrado (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, 19 giugno 2017)
• Grecia e migranti: arenati (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, 10 ottobre 2016)
• La rotta balcanica a ritroso: rifugiati deportati dall’Austria alla Croazia (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, 15 novembre 2016)
• Bosnia Erzegovina: la protesta della DITA (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, 23 aprile 2015)
• Trento-Prijedor, un modello per lo sviluppo locale (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, 22 aprile 2015)
• New social movements arise in Bosnia Herzegovina (ROARmag, 18 December 2014)
• Tuzla: the workers’ revolt that spawned a Bosnian Spring (ROARmag, 1 May 2014)
• Σπέρνουν πείνα, θερίζουν θυμό: γιατί η Βοσνία καίγεται (16 February 2014)
• Sow hunger, reap anger: Why Bosnia is burning (ROARmag, 9 February 2014)
• Occupy Sarajevo: Taking parliament hostage in Bosnia (ROARmag, 14 June 2013)

In the media

• Romania: Social Capital. Interview with Osservatorio Balcani (30 April 2014)