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We have a visitor, through the ERC visiting programme. He will be with us for a month or so, and come to some of our activities. </div>
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Here is his profile. I will ask him to join us for part of our Thursday meeting if ok with you. I will also ask you to allow him to work occasionally from the flex desk in your office. Riccardo’s work on the politics of expertise is relevant for DATAGOV—maybe
he can present for us. Bio below. </div>
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Riccardo and I first met because he organised a webinar with <a href="https://sociology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/steven-epstein.html" data-outlook-id="294671e0-7b9a-4624-bef6-75d21fc01239">
Steven Epstein</a>, who by the way sits in the DATAGOV advisory board, and I am a fan of. </div>
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Hope you will find it fun! </div>
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Stefania</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MMaj6yUAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao" title="Original URL:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MMaj6yUAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
Click to follow link." originalsrc="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MMaj6yUAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao" data-outlook-id="6c7143ce-ce56-44d8-b986-97a9e8aef001" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);">Riccardo Emilio
Chesta</a></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-transform: none;"> is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Politecnico di Milano and
</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: none;">Associate Editor of the journal </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://sociologica.unibo.it/" title="https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsociologica.unibo.it%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cs.milan%40uva.nl%7C0ebac978bbbf4d9bdadd08de576df4f6%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C0%7C0%7C639044326933355687%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a1jRq7viUnn%2FB6YbC%2F0unF5HhGH%2BrdbeWbu7H4FqNUA%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://sociologica.unibo.it/" data-outlook-id="2eaca355-a59b-4762-9d02-5c63aaceea46" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); text-align: left;">Sociologica</a>.</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: none;"> He
</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-transform: none;">is a comparative sociologist investigating the social dimensions of expertise with a deep interest in the role of critical communities, social movements and contentious processes.</span></div>
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He is currently developing a new project on environmental conflicts and expert controversies on economic valuation of the environment.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">In his first monograph he compared the politics of expertise in environmental conflicts (</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Contentious-Politics-of-Expertise-Experts-Activism-and-Grassroots-Environmentalism/Chesta/p/book/9780367695446" title="Original URL:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Contentious-Politics-of-Expertise-Experts-Activism-and-Grassroots-Environmentalism/Chesta/p/book/9780367695446
Click to follow link." originalsrc="https://www.routledge.com/The-Contentious-Politics-of-Expertise-Experts-Activism-and-Grassroots-Environmentalism/Chesta/p/book/9780367695446" data-outlook-id="6e4c20b4-f017-4c2d-b648-e62b108cf848" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);">The
Contentious Politics of Expertise</a></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">, Routledge: 2021) and later he has worked on labour mobilizations in digital platforms (</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><a href="https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/labour-conflicts-in-the-digital-age" title="Original URL:
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/labour-conflicts-in-the-digital-age
Click to follow link." originalsrc="https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/labour-conflicts-in-the-digital-age" data-outlook-id="58ca667b-91c1-4789-8637-3e282068fd0d" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);">Labour
Conflicts in the Digital Age</a></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">, Bristol University Press, 2023 (with Donatella Della Porta and Lorenzo Cini).</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-transform: none;">He has a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University
Institute in Florence. He has also been Postdoctoral Researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Visiting Researcher at the Urban Lab, New York University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a member of COSMOS – Center on Social Movement Studies
at the Scuola Normale Superiore.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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