Michela Giovannini
Biography
Michela Giovannini is an Assistant Professor at the Competence Centre for the Management of Cooperatives at the Free University of Bolzano (Italy). She was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at CES from 2017 to 2019 and later a researcher in the TIMES project (Institutional Trajectories and Social Enterprise Models in Portugal). At CES, she currently co-coordinates the Group on Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL). She holds a PhD in Local Development and Global Dynamics from the University of Trento, Italy, and an MA in Political Science from the University of Padova. Her research focuses on social and solidarity economy in Latin America and Europe, indigenous socioeconomic initiatives, community development, political consumerism and collective action.
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Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Forno, Francesca; Andreola, Mattia; Dal Gobbo, Alice; Giovannini, Michela; Magnani, Natalia (2026), Solidarity, Grassroots Mobilisation, Social Movements, and Collective Action, in Maurie J. Cohen, Magnus Bengtsson, Ria Lambino, Sylvia Lorek, and Steven McGreevy (org.), Handbook of Research on Sustainable Lifestyles. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
Article in Scientific journal
Andreola, Mattia; Forno, Francesca; Giovannini, Michela (2025), "Tracing democratic innovations: A longitudinal perspective on a food policy council", Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, online first
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Giovannini, Michela; Forno, Francesca; Magnani, Natalia (2024), "Practicing sustainable eating: zooming in a civic food network", Agriculture and Human Values, 41, 3, 921-933