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Enzo Colombo
Professor of Cultural Processes

Enzo Colombo

Youth, Gender and Generations

Enzo Colombo is Professor of Cultural processes and teaches Culture and Society and Globalization, Social Justice and Human Rights.

His main fields of expertise are: Cultural Theory; Multiculturalism, Racism and Otherness; Youth Studies.

He has published in several major sociological journals. Among the most recent works:

  1. 2023 Framing Social Theory. Reassembling the Lexicon of Contemporary Social Sciences (eds, with P. Rebughini), London, Routledge;
  2. 2021 Acrobati del presente. La vita quotidiana alla prova del lockdown, (with P. Rebughini) (eds.), Roma, Carocci;
  3. 2020 Sociologia delle relazioni interculturali, Roma, Carocci;
  4. 2019 Youth and the Politics of the Present. Coping with complexity and ambivalence (with P. Rebughini) (eds.), London, Routledge;
  5. 2023 Becoming individuals: processes of individualization and reflexivity, «Educação e Pesquisa», 49: 1-18;
  6. 2023 Configurations of otherness and globalization of the Othering Machine, «Mondi Migranti», 1/2023: 9-26 (with L. Leonini, P. Rebughini);
  7. 2022 The way it goes: Epistemic and methodological encounters of intersectionality, «AG About Gender. International Journal of Gender Studies», 11 (22): 221-244 (with P. Rebughini);
  8. 2022 Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy, «Sociology», 56 (3): 430-446 (with P. Rebughini and L. Domaneschi);
  9. 2021 Human Rights-inspired Governmentality: COVID-19 through a Human Dignity Perspective, «Critical Sociology», 47 (4-5), pp. 571-581

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Citizenship, Education and Democracy Teresa Pullano
Teresa Pullano
Post-doctoral Researcher

She is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political, Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Milano Statale.
Citizenship, Education and Democracy Federico Bruno
Federico Bruno
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Federico Bruno is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan
Welfare, Sustainability and Eco-Social Policies Paolo Funari
Paolo Funari
PhD Student

His research interests concern comparative welfare systems and political economy, particularly social and labour policies. In particular, his research project concerns the social policy trajectories of European welfare states to mitigate the adverse effects of technological change on workers.
Welfare, Sustainability and Eco-Social Policies Stefano Ronchi
Stefano Ronchi
Assistant Professor

His research interests include comparative welfare state analysis, labour market policies and the politics of EU social policy, which he addresses through both quantitative and qualitative methods. More recently, he has been studying the social consequences of the green transition and the provision of occupational welfare in Italy.