My research activities focus on three main topics:
- relationship between young people and participation, with particular reference to youth involvement in unconventional practices of political and civic involvement (occupations, demonstrations, boycotts, civil disobedience, neo-mutualism). I am interested in the study of meanings, representations, and practices associated by young people with these forms of involvement, but also in the analysis of their processes of political socialization, the role of intergenerational relations on development of these participatory behaviors, and the influence of local contexts on youth possibilities and experiences of participation.
- micro-processes of development and maintenance of collectivities and collective identities in political (i.e. extra-parliamentary movements) and subcultural groups (i.e. ultras). My research interest is mainly focused on the dynamic relationship between youth collectivity in the public sphere and youth every-daily sociality, mainly in relation to gender aspects (e.g, masculinity);
- young people's paths of transitions to adulthood, with particular reference to coping strategies adopted by young people in precarious jobs. My studies specifically focus on the effects of job precarity on the adoption of specific biographical and professional choices on behalf of young people (i.e. self-entrepreneurship, international mobility).
