Biography

Michela Giovannini is a researcher in the framework of the project TIMES - Institutional Trajectories and Social Enterprise Models in Portugal. She arrived at CES in 2017 with a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowhip. She integrates the research group POSTRADE (Social Policies, Labour and Inequalities) and its sub-group on Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL). She holds a PhD in Local Development and Global Dynamics at the University of Trento, Italy (2014) and a Laurea (equivalent to an MA) in Political Science (University of Padova, 2001). Her main studies focused on social and solidarity economy organizations in Latin America, such as indigenous grassroots initiatives in Mexico and their contribution to buen vivir, and recyclers' organizations in Chile. Her current research project is devoted to analyze the political dimension of social and solidarity economy organizations connected to anti-austerity social movements in Spain and Portugal. Her research interests focus on social and solidarity economy in Latin America and Europe, indigenous socioeconomic initiatives, community development, anti-austerity social movements.