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Researching and imagining solutions to improve working conditions in the fast fashion industry – A conversation with professor Sarosh Kuruvilla
A few weeks ago, in Florence, in front of a shop in Zara, textile workers from Prato organized a small demonstration in solidarity with their colleagues who work for the large clothing group in Turkey. Fast fashion, the clothes we buy for a few euros in big chains, has for…
Read morePolitical Party Brands in Europe
A conversation with Professor Swen Hutter: 60% of European political parties running in elections avoid using the term “party”; one in five describes itself as a movement or avoids identifying as a party. Professor Swen Hutter teaches political sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and directs the Center for Civil Society…
Read moreHuman rights history before and after 1989 Interview with prof. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is a contemporary historian whose recent work focuses on human rights. He teaches at Berkeley, California, and between November and December he was a visiting guest at the Ciampi Institute in Florence. Over the past two years, the world has witnessed an explicit scaling back of the use…
Read moreThe causes behind Chile’s shift to the right
Different right-wing candidates offered a wide range of alternatives and coalesced in the second turn, immigration from Venezuela was broadly used as a campaign talking point that spoke to a wide range of the population, the relations between newly elected President Kemp and world right-wing leaders. A conversation with Javier…
Read more“Global governance is a mirage” – interview with Wolfgang Streeck
On the 19th of May, professor Wolfgang Streeck (Emeritus Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung) was one of the guests at the “Sovereignty and State Systems after Globalism” together with professor Beverly Silver (Ciampi Visiting Scholar from Johns Hopkins University). Two different views and diagnoses of the deep crisis the…
Read moreOlivier Fillieule: France, from the society of movements to the repression of protest
France, from the society of movements to the repression of protest Olivier Filleule presents his research on French movements and police, a point of view that helps explain the country's political crisis Olivier Fillieule studies and researches social movements and street dynamics in the field, the interactions between police and…
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