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Donatella
Della Porta
Languages:
Active: Italian, English, French, German
Passive: Spanish
Donatella Della Porta is professor of sociology in the Department
of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute.
She is on leave of absence from the University of Florence, where
she was full professor of Political Science, president of the
corso di laurea in Administrative Sciences, and Director of the
Department of Political Science and Sociology at the University
of Florence. She has received a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies
at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and
a Ph.D in political and social sciences at the European University
Institute in Florence. She directs the DEMOS project (Democracy
in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society), financed under
the VI FP by the EC. She also coordinated the Gruppo di Ricerca
sull'azione collettiva in Europa (GRACE). She has conducted research
also at Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin für Sozialforschung. In 1990 she received a Career
Development Award of the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation; in 1997 a
Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Her main research
interests concern social movements, political violence, terrorism,
corruption, police and policies of public order. On these issues
she has conducted investigations in Italy, France, Germany and
Spain. She has directed a project of comparative research on control
of public mass demonstrations in Europe and one on the police
in Italy. Currently she is involved in several comparative projects
on citizenship and social movements.
Research Interests:
Social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police
and policies of public order.
On these issues she has conducted investigations in Italy, France,
Germany and Spain. She has directed a project of comparative research
on control of public mass demonstrations in Europe and one on
the police in Italy. Currently she is involved in several comparative
projects on citizenships and social movements.
Seminars
Publications:
D. della Porta and M. Diani, Movimenti senza protesta?, Bologna,
Il Mulino, 2004, D. della Porta and H. Reiter, Polizia e protesta,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003; D. della Porta, I new global, Bologna,
Il Mulino, 2003; M. Andretta, D. della Porta, L. Mosca and H.
Reiter, Global, noglobal, new global. Le proteste contro il G8
a Genova, Roma, Laterza, 2002 (also in German by Campus Verlag);
D. della Porta and S. Rose-Ackerman (eds.), Corrupt exchanges,
Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2002; D. Della Porta, Introduzione
alla scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002; D. Della Porta,
I partiti politici, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001; M. Cotta, D. della
Porta, L. Morlino, Scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001;
D. della Porta, M. Greco, A. Szakolczai (eds.), Identità,
riconoscimento, scambio. Saggi in onore di Alessandro Pizzorno,
Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000; D. della Porta, A. Vannucci, Un paese
anormale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999; D. della Porta, H. Kriesi
and D. Rucht (eds.), Social Movement in a Globalizing World, New
York, Macmillan, 1999; D. della Porta, M. Diani, Social Movements:
An Introduction, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1999; D. della Porta,
A. Vannucci, Corrup Exchanges, Aldine de Gruyter, 1999; D. della
Porta, La politica locale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999; D. della
Porta and H. Reiter (eds.), Policing Protest. The Control of Mass
Demonstration in Western Democracies, Minneapolis, The University
of Minnesota Press; D. della Porta e M. Diani, I movimenti sociali,
Roma, Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1997; D. della Porta, Movimenti
collettivi e sistema politico in Italia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996;
D. della Porta, Social Movements, Political Violence and the State,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995 (Honorable Mention
for the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Collective Behavior
and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association
in 1996); D. della Porta, Y. Meny (eds.), Démocratie et
corruption en Europe, Paris, La Découverte, 1995 (published
also in Italian by Liguori, in Portuguese by Inquerito, and in
English by Pinter); D. della Porta, A. Vannucci, Amministrazione
pubblica e corruzione. Risorse, meccanismi, attori, Bologna, Il
Mulino 1994; D. della Porta, Lo scambio occulto. Casi di corruzione
politica in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992.
Professor Della Porta has been appointed to the Chair in Sociology,
and joined the Department of Political and Social Sciences on
April 1st, 2003.
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