Giuseppe Cugnata, doctorant invité de la Scuola Normale Superiore

Le CSO a le plaisir d'accueillir Giuseppe Cugnata en ce début d'année.

Depuis novembre 2020, il est doctorant en Sciences politiques et sociologie sous la direction de Donatella Della Porta à la Scuola Normale Superiore à Florence, et il est également membre du Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos) à Florence et membre du collectif de recherche Quantité Critique à Paris.

Il prépare une thèse en science politique et en sociologie intitulée : Working title: Living differently and changing society. A comparative analysis of ecological practices of climate protesters in Italy and France.

Giuseppe réalise un séjour de visiting PhD Student au CSO de janvier à juin 2023 où il est accueilli entre autre par Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier puisqu'il travaille sur les pratiques écologiques des militants des mouvements pour le climat, avec une comparaison entre la France et l'Italie, à l'articulation entre sociologie de la consommation et sociologie des mouvements sociaux.

Abstract

Emerging as a reaction to the failure of the ecological modernization paradigm, the wave of climate protests started in 2018 has re-focused the attention on governmental inaction on climate issues and on the need to pursue a political and collective transformation rather than attributing the responsibility for the climate crisis to individuals and consumers. In this sense, this wave of protests can be interpreted as an attempt to re-politicize the climate debate after a period of depoliticization of environmental issues. However, despite this re- centralization of political and collective action, everyday ecological practices (such as boycott, zero-waste consumption, vegetarianism, etc.) do not seem to be eradicated in the daily life of protesters. Starting from this point, the research aims at analyzing the social determinants and the meanings that everyday ecological practices have for climate protesters. Based on quantitative protest surveys and qualitative interviews, the research will explore the links between individual practices, collective repertoires of action and ideological orientations of climate protesters in two countries with different mobilization contexts, i.e. Italy and France.

Keywords: climate protests, everyday ecological practices, protest survey, semi-structured interview