Monographs

della Porta, D., Bertuzzi, N., Chironi, D., Milan, C., Portos, M. and Zamponi, L. (2022) Resisting the Backlash: Street Protest in Italy. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003262558

Bosi, L. and Zamponi, L. (2019) Resistere alla crisi. I percorsi dell’azione sociale diretta. Bologna: Il Mulino.

Zamponi, L. (2018) Social Movements, Memory and Media. Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements. London: Palgrave. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68551-9

Special issues and edited volums

Daphi, P. and and Zamponi, L. (2019) Memories and Movements. Mobilization 24(4).

Articles in referred journals

Deseriis, M., Zamponi, L. and Ceccobelli, D. (2025) Communication Creates Partial Organization: A comparative analysis of the organizing practices of two climate action movements, Youth for Climate and Fridays for Future Italy. Partecipazione e Conflitto 18(1), pp. 101-120. Link.

Zamponi, L., Cugnata, C. and Ferro, A. (2024) Strikes, assemblies and blockades: the dynamics of repertoire change in grassroots climate action in Italy (2018-2023). Italian Political Science 18(3), pp. 257-293. Link.

Padoan, E. and Zamponi, L. (2024) Losers of globalization? Politics in the Prosecco Hills region in Italy as a case of radical right-wing populism in a (wealthy) rural area. Italian Journal of Electoral Studies. https://doi.org/10.36253/qoe-15734

Cugnata, G., Cuel, J., Bertuzzi, N., Parks, L. and Zamponi, L. (2024) Convergence in action: framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan. European Societies 26(5), pp. 1545-1571. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2024.2362151

Zamponi, L. (2024) Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Movement Studies 23(6), pp. 756-776. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2204426

Bosi, L. and Zamponi, L. (2022) Solidarietà, mutualismo, resistenza: l’azione collettiva in Italia dalla crisi economica a quella pandemica. Rivista delle Politiche Sociali 1/2022, pp. 89-106.

Zamponi, L., Baukloh, A.C., Bertuzzi, N., Chironi, D., della Porta, D. and Portos, M. (2022) (Water) Bottles and (Street) Barricades: The Politicisation of Lifestyle-Centred Action in Youth Climate Strike Participation. Journal of Youth Studies 25(6), pp. 854-875. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2060730

Zamponi, L. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (2020) Uneven ground: the asymmetric competition between anti-refugee and solidarity movements in Italy. Politiche Sociali 2(2020), pp. 267-290. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.7389/97989

Castelli Gattinara, P. and Zamponi, L. (2020) Politicizing support and opposition to migration in France: The EU asylum policy crisis and direct social activism. Journal of European Integration 42(5), pp. 625-641. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2020.1792459

Zamponi, L. (2020) Challenging precarity, austerity and delocalisation: Italian labour struggles from Euro-criticism to Euro-disenchantment. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 7(3), pp. 347-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2020.1804962

Barassi, V. and Zamponi, L. (2020) Social Media Time, Identity Narratives and the Construction of Political Biographies. Social Movement Studies 19(5-6), pp.592-608. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2020.1718489

Bosi, L. and Zamponi, L. (2020) Paths towards the Same Form of Collective Action: Direct Social Action in Times of Crisis in Italy. Social Forces 99(2), 847-869. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz160

Portos, M., Bosi, L. and Zamponi, L. (2020) Life beyond the ballot box: the political participation and non-participation of electoral abstainers. European Societies 22(2), pp.231-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2019.1610785

Daphi, P. and Zamponi, L. (2019) Exploring the Movement-Memory Nexus: Insights and Ways Forward. Mobilization 24(4), pp. 399-417. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-24-4-399

Chesta, R. E., Zamponi, L. and Caciagli, C. (2019) Labour Activism and Social Movement Unionism in The Gig Economy. Food Delivery Workers’ Struggles in Italy. Partecipazione e Conflitto 12(3), pp.819-844.  https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v12i3p819

Zamponi, L. (2019) Direct Social Action, Welfare Retrenchment and Political Identities. Coping with the Crisis and Pursuing Change in Italy. Partecipazione e Conflitto 12(2), pp.382-409. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v12i2p382

Zamponi, L. (2019) The “Precarious Generation” and the “Natives of the Ruins”: The Multiple Dimensions of Generational Identity in Italian Labor Struggles in Times of Crisis. American Behavioral Scientist 63(10), pp.1427-1446. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0002764219831740

Cristancho, C., Uba, K. and Zamponi, L. (2019) Discarding Protests? Relating Crisis Experience to Approval of Protests among activists and bystanders. Acta Politica 54(3), pp.430-457. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-017-0061-1

Zamponi, L. and Bosi, L. (2018) Politicizing Solidarity in Times of Crisis: The Politics of Alternative Action Organizations in Greece, Italy and Spain. American Behavioral Scientist 62(6), pp. 796-815. http://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218768861

Zamponi, L. (2017) Practices of Solidarity: Direct Social Action, Politicisation and Refugee Solidarity Activism in Italy. Mondi Migranti, pp.97-117. http://doi.org/10.3280/MM2017-003005

Zamponi, L. and Fernández González, J. (2017) Dissenting Youth: How Student and Youth Struggles Helped Shape Anti-Austerity Mobilisations in Southern Europe. Social Movement Studies 16(1), pp.64-81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2016.1239194

Zamponi, L. and Bosi, L. (2016) Which Crisis? European Crisis and National Contexts in Public Discourse. Politics & Policy 44(3), pp.400-426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/polp.12156

Bosi, L. and Zamponi, L. (2015) Direct Social Actions and Economic Crises: The relationship between forms of action and socio-economic context in Italy. Partecipazione e Conflitto 8(2), pp.367-391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v8i2p367 

della Porta, D. and Zamponi, L. (2013) Protest and policing on October 15th, global day of action: the Italian case. Policing and Society 23(1), pp.65-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2012.727596

Zamponi, L. (2012) “Why don’t Italians occupy?” Hypotheses on a failed mobilisation. Social Movement Studies 11(3-4), pp.416-426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2012.708833

Book chapters

Anzolin, G., Campolongo, F. and Zamponi, L. (2025) Transizione ecologica: attori e sfide. Uno sguardo multidisciplinare. In: D’Agostino, M. and Raniolo, F. (eds.) Futuri urbani: crisi e nuovi volti delle città. Milano: FrancoAngeli, pp. 103-112.

Zamponi, L. (2022) In piazza per il diritto al futuro: i movimenti per la giustizia climatica in Europa. In: Atlante Geopolitico Treccani 2022. Roma: Treccani, pp. 22-24.

Zamponi, L. (2021) L’Italia dei movimenti tra berlusconismo, crisi strutturale della sinistra e nuovi populismi (2001-2021). In: Cantiere delle Idee and Fairwatch (eds.) Un altro mondo è ancora possibile? Lo spazio dell’alternativa vent’anni dopo Genova e Porto Alegre. Milano: Fondazione Feltrinelli, pp. 135-150.

Zamponi, L. (2020) #ioricordo, beyond the Genoa G8: social practices of memory work and the digital remembrance of contentious pasts in Italy. In: Merrill, S., Daphi, P. e Keightley, E. (eds.) Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media. Mobilising Mediated Remembrance. London: Palgrave, pp.141-172.

Zamponi, L. (2019) ‘We won’t pay for the crisis’: student movements in European anti-austerity protest. In: Flesher Fominaya, C. e Feenstra, R.A. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of European Social Movements. Protest in Turbulent Times. London: Routledge, pp.197-310.

Zamponi, L. (2018) Memory in Action. Narratives of 1968 in the Italian student movement of 2008‑2011. In: della Porta, D. (ed.) “Memory in Movements. 1968 in 2018”. Milano: Annali della Fondazione Feltrinelli, pp.19-.38.

Zamponi, L. (2018) La memoria in azione. Narrazioni del Sessantotto nel movimento studentesco italiano del 2008-2011. In: della Porta, D. (ed.) Sessantotto. Passato e presente dell’anno ribelle. Milano: Feltrinelli, pp.57-81.

Zamponi, L. (2018) From Border to Border: Refugee Solidarity Activism in Italy across Space, Time and Practices. In: della Porta, D. (ed.) Solidarity Mobilizations in the ‘Refugee Crisis’. Contentious Moves. London: Palgrave, pp.99-124.

Zamponi, L. and Bosi, L. (2018) Political Consumerism and Participation in Times of Crisis in Italy. In: Giugni, M. and Grasso, M. (eds.) Citizens and the Crisis. Experiences, Perceptions, and Responses to the Great Recession in Europe. London: Palgrave, pp. 141-164.

Zamponi, L. (2017) Crisis, Labour and Education: Media Discourse and Anti-Austerity Protest in Italy. In: Papaioannou, T., Gupta, S. (eds) Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU. Grievances, Identities and Agency. London: Routledge, pp. 46-69.

Zamponi, L. and Vogiatzoglou, M. (2017) Contentious Labour in Italy and Greece: Movements and Trade Unions in Times of Precarity and Austerity. In: Wennerhag, M., Fröhlich, C. and Piotrowski, G. (eds.) Radical Left Movements in Europe. London: Ashgate, pp. 82-100.

Zamponi, L. (2015) Remembering Violence: Four Cases of Contentious Memory in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In: Bosi, L., Ó Dochartaigh, N., Pisioiu, D. (eds.) Political Violence in Context. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp. 89-114.

Zamponi, L. and Vogiatzoglou, M. (2015) Organising workers’ counter-power in Italy and Greece. In: Buxton, N. and Bélanger Dumontier, M. (eds.) State of Power 2015. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, pp.81-90.

Zamponi, L. (2015) Gramsci a Tahrir, tra spontaneità e teoria dei movimenti sociali. In: Ferrara, A. (ed.) Prospettiva Gramsci. Dialoghi tra il presente e un classico del Novecento. Bari: CaratteriMobili, pp.100-118.

Zamponi, L. and Daphi, P. (2014) Breaks and continuities in and between Cycles of Protest. Memories and Legacies of the Global Justice Movement in the Context of Anti-Austerity Mobilisations. In: della Porta, D. and Mattoni, A. (eds.) Spreading Protest. Social Movements in Times of Crisis. Colchester: ECPR Press, 193-225

Zamponi, L. (2011) La rivolta della conoscenza: il movimento studentesco. In Maida, B. (ed.) Senti che bel rumore. Un anno di lotta per l’università pubblica. Torino: Aaccademia Press, pp.153-168.

Zamponi, L. (2006) Comunicare l’identità di classe. La stampa sindacale a Treviso 1952-1960. In Ceschin, D. (ed.) Dai campi alle officine. Storie e lotte del sindacato nel Trevigiano. Treviso: ISTRESCO.

Voices in encyclopaedias

Zamponi, L. (forthcoming) Memory. In: Giugni, M. and Grasso, M. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Zamponi, L. (2022) Collective memory and Social Movements. In: Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B. (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (2nd edition). London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 446-449

Bosi, L. and Zamponi, L. (2022) Direct Social Action. In: Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B. (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (2nd edition). London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 636-639.

Milan, S. and Zamponi, L. (2014) Demonstrations, Organizing. In: Harkey, K. and Golson, J.G. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. Los Angeles: Sage, pp.300-373.

Zamponi, L. (2013) Collective memory and Social Movements. In: Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B. (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (1st edition). London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.225-229.

This list was last updated on June 7, 2024.