[DATAGOV Core] visiting: Riccardo Emilio Chesta

[Stefania Milan]

Dear all
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.
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.

Riccardo and I first met because he organised a webinar with Steven Epstein<https://sociology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/steven-epstein.html>, who by the way sits in the DATAGOV advisory board, and I am a fan of.

Hope you will find it fun!
Stefania


Riccardo Emilio Chesta<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MMaj6yUAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao> is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Politecnico di Milano and Associate Editor of the journal  Sociologica<https://sociologica.unibo.it/>. He 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.
He is currently developing a new project on environmental conflicts and expert controversies on economic valuation of the environment.
In his first monograph he compared the politics of expertise in environmental conflicts (The Contentious Politics of Expertise<https://www.routledge.com/The-Contentious-Politics-of-Expertise-Experts-Activism-and-Grassroots-Environmentalism/Chesta/p/book/9780367695446>, Routledge: 2021) and later he has worked on labour mobilizations in digital platforms (Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age<https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/labour-conflicts-in-the-digital-age>, Bristol University Press, 2023 (with Donatella Della Porta and Lorenzo Cini).
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.


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