Donatella della Porta
Donatella della Porta (born June 3, 1956 in Catania ) is an Italian political scientist and professor of political science and political sociology at the European University Institute . She is known for her research in the areas of social movements , corruption , politically motivated violence and public order politics, on which she conducted research in Italy, France, Germany and Spain.
life and career
In 1978 Donatella della Porta graduated from the University of Catania with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science . In 1981 she obtained her Diplôme d'études approfondies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. In 1987 she received her doctorate with the text Underground political organizations. Leftwing terrorism in Italy at the European University Institute in Florence.
In 1991 she was visiting professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) and returned to the University of Florence in the same year . Until 1993 she conducted research at the Berlin Social Science Center on “comparative analysis of political violence and terrorism in Italy and Germany”, which was funded by the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione and a Guggenheim grant . From 1993 to 1996 she headed an international research project on the control of mass demonstrations in Europe. In 1997 and 2003 she received scholarships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .
Since 2003 she has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence on leave, where she was Director of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. Since 2003 she has been Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute.
Donatella della Porta headed the DEMOS ( Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of the Society) project, funded by the European Commission from 2004–2008 , which dealt with and published participatory democracy and social movements .
Since September 2014 she has been researching at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies . In 2012 she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .
Donatella della Porta lives in Florence .
Fonts (selection)
- Social Movements in Times of Austerity . Bringing Capitalism Back into Protest Analysis. Polity Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-0-7456-8859-6 .
- with Mario Diani: Social Movements: An Introduction . 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons , New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4051-0282-7 .
- with Gianni Piazza: Voices of the valley, voices of the straits: how protest creates communities . Berghahn Books , New York City 2008, ISBN 978-1-84545-515-6 .
- Globalization from below: transnational activists and protest networks . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2006, ISBN 978-0-8166-4642-5 .
- Donatella delle Porta, Sidney Tarrow (Ed.): Transnational protest and global activism . Rowman & Littlefield , Lanham (Maryland) 2005, ISBN 978-0-7425-3587-9 .
- Donatella Della Porta, Herbert Reiter (Ed.): Policing Protest . The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1998, ISBN 0-8166-3064-X .
- Social movements, political violence, and the state: a comparative analysis of Italy and Germany . Cambridge University Press , Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-47396-9 .
- In German language
- Progressive and regressive politics in late neoliberalism. In: Heinrich Geiselberger (Ed.): The great regression. An international debate about the intellectual situation of the time . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-07291-2 , pp. 57-76.
Web links
- Literature by and about Donatella della Porta in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Donatella della Porta in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Donatella della Porta on Academia.edu
- Homepage
- CV, as of 2013 PDF, 353 kB
- DEMOS Project ( Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of the Society ), PDF, 260 kB
- Democracy: Challenge and Opportunity. Presentation by Donatella della Porta 2011 at the Federal Agency for Civic Education . PDF, 223 kB, accessed on December 6, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Download the curriculum vitae from Curriculum Vitae. January 2012, accessed June 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Democracy in Europe and social mobilization. Retrieved June 2, 2015 .
- ↑ Donatella Della Porta, Short Biography. (No longer available online.) September 18, 2014, archived from the original on June 11, 2015 ; accessed on June 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Directory of members: Donatella della Porta. Academia Europaea, accessed October 4, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Della Porta, Donatella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Catania |