CURRICULUM VITAE. Personal Information. Education. Name: Daniela Chironi Nationality: Italian Place and Date of Birth: Nuoro, 12 Oct.

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Information Name: Daniela Chironi Nationality: Italian Place and Date of Birth: Nuoro, 12 Oct European University Institute, Via dei Roccettini 9, 50014, San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence (Italy) - Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza degli Strozzi 1, 50123, Florence (Italy) address: daniela.chironi@eui.eu Mobile phone: Education 2012-onwards: PhD Researcher in SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (Florence) - Supervisor: Professor Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence) - Thesis: Radical Left-wing Parties and Social Movement: Strategic Interactions

2 2012: M.Res. in SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Florence - Supervisor: Professor Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence) 2011: M.A. (Laurea Magistrale) in POLITICAL SCIENCE AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES with specialisation in Political Consultancy and Communications Cesare Alfieri Faculty of Political Science at FLORENCE UNIVERSITY - Final mark: 110/110 cum laude and right of publication - Supervisor: Professor Marco Tarchi (UniFI) - Thesis: The radical left parties in bipolar Italy, Organization and strategies 2007: B.A. (Laurea triennale) in MEDIA STUDIES AND JOURNALISM with specialisation in Political Communications Cesare Alfieri Faculty of Political Science at FLORENCE UNIVERSITY - Final mark: 110/110 cum laude - Supervisor: Professor Marco Tarchi (UniFI) - Thesis: The New Global Movement seen from the left: The European Social Forum in Florence as seen by L Unità and Liberazione 2000: Secondary school diploma Liceo Classico Giorgio Asproni, Nuoro, Sardinia - Final mark: 90/100 Scientific Interests Political Sociology - Political Participation - Sociology of Political Parties - Social Movements - Space and Contentious Politics - Movements within Organizations Sociological and Political Theory - Return of Marxist Theory in Political Sociology, particularly in Movement Studies

3 Political Science - Political Parties and Party Change in Context - Party Systems - Political Communications Current Research Radical Left-wing Parties and Social Movement: Strategic Interactions - Description: I investigate the strategic interactions between left-wing parties and social movements in Western Europe, particularly focusing on the Communist Refoundation Party in Italy and SYRIZA in Greece and anti-neoliberal movements in both countries. - Comparative Research Design and Mixed Methods - Fieldwork in both Italy and Greece (in-depth interviews and participant observation) Academic Collaborations and Scientific Experience 2016 (1 Dec.-28 Febr.): Analysis of secondary literature, in-depth interviews, critical discourse analysis on on-line and off-line documents within the UE 7 PQ Cooperation Project ANTICORRP (full title: Anticorruption Policies Revisited. Global Trend and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption ) - Employer: SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE (Pisa) - Principal Investigator: Professor Donatella della Porta 2016 (1 Sept.-30 Nov.): Literature review about the participation of social movements in referendums within the ERC Advanced Scholars Grant Project MOBILIZING 4 DEMOCRACY - Employer: SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE (Pisa) - Principal Investigator: Professor Donatella della Porta 2016 (15 Aug.-15 Sept.): Proofreading and indexing of the volume Where Did the Revolution Go? (D. della Porta 2016, Cambridge University Press) - Employer: Professor Donatella della Porta 2015: Data collection for the updated version of the book I partiti politici (D. della Porta 2015, Il Mulino) - Employer: Professor Donatella della Porta

4 2015: Peer reviewer for AYER. Revista de Historia Contemporánea (15 May-15 June): Proofreading and indexing of the volume Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research (edited by D. della Porta 2014, Oxford University Press) - Employer: Professor Donatella della Porta (Academic year): Researcher Representative Department of Political and Social Sciences, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (Florence) 2013 (1-15 December): Archival Research at Central National Library in Florence for the selection of articles about First May demonstrations published by the newspaper L Avanti from 1897 to Employer: Dr. Herbert Reiter 2013 (May-Sept.): Semi-structured Interviews to activists of the OccupyPD campaign in Italy - Employer: Professor Donatella della Porta 2012: Quantitative Research within the cross-national collaborative research project CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF PROTEST: CONTEXTUALIZING CONTESTASTION - Principal Investigator: Professor Donatella della Porta Activities: - Surveying the following street demonstrations: Italian national Gay Pride (Bologna, 9 June 2012); No Monti Day (Roma, 27 Oct. 2012); final demonstration of the international movement meeting Florence (Florence, 10 Nov. 2012); national demonstration of the Italian anti-mafia association Libera (Florence, 16 Nov. 2013) : Qualitative and Quantitative Research for the OBSERVATORY ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF ITALIAN POLITICAL PARTIES - Director: Professor Marco Tarchi Activities: - In-depth interviews with Organization and Communications staff in the Communist Refoundation Party (Rome, 19 Nov. 2008) and the Party of Italian Communists (Rome, 20 Nov. 2008) - Elaboration of the questionnaires distributed to the delegates at the national Congress of the Federation of the Left (FdS) and that of Left, Ecology and Freedom (SEL) - Surveying at the National Assembly of the Democratic Party (Pd) (Rome, 7 Nov. 2009)

5 - Surveying at the national Congresses of the: Italian Radical party (Chianciano, 30 Oct.-2 Nov. 2008); FdS (Rome, Nov. 2010); SEL (Florence, Oct. 2010); The Right (La Destra) (Turin, Nov. 2011) Non-Academic Work Experience : Radio Journalist for the Tuscan station CONTRORADIO Srl (POPOLARE NETWORK) Activities: - Interviews, writing articles, correspondent at press conferences and external events, updating of the website, writing and reading the radio news bulletins : External News Correspondent for the national Press Agency ADNKRONOS Activities: - Writing articles on both news and culture Academic Teaching and Related Activities 2012-onwards: Teaching Assistant and Lecturer to the Chair of Political Science, Political Communications, and Political Analysis and Theory Cesare Alfieri School of Political Science at FLORENCE UNIVERSITY - Chair: Professor Marco Tarchi 2016 (28 Sept.): Invited Lecturer for the session Left-wing Populism in Comparative Perspective within the Seminar of Political Analysis and Theory Cesare Alfieri School of Political Science at FLORENCE UNIVERSITY - Chair: Professor Marco Tarchi 2015 (24 Nov.): Invited Lecturer for the session Left-wing Populism within the Seminar of Political Analysis and Theory Cesare Alfieri School of Political Science at FLORENCE UNIVERSITY - Chair: Professor Marco Tarchi 2015 (2 Nov.): Invited Lecturer for the session Political Participation and Social Movements within the Seminar of Political Science

6 Cesare Alfieri School of Political Science at FLORENCE UNIVERSITY - Chair: Professor Marco Tarchi 2015 (4 Feb.): Invited Lecturer for the session Research Design within the PhD Program in Political and Social Change TORINO UNIVERSITY and FLORENCE UNIVERSITY - Chair: Professor Marco Tarchi : Member of the Marxism(s) and Social Movements Working Group and Convener of the Seminar Series Marxism(s) and Social Movements. Is Marx Back in Social Theory? (with Lorenzo Cini, Eliska Drapalova, Federico Tomasello) CONSORTIUM ON SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES (COSMOS) and EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (Florence) Among other activities: - 28 Oct Chair for the panel Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal Speaker: Professor Andrew Roos (New York University) - 29 April 2015 Discussant for the panel From Social Struggles to Political Institutions? Processes of Institutionalization and Transformation of Social Movements between the Latin American and the European Experience Speaker: Professor Sandro Mezzadra (Bologna University) - September 2015 Transcription and Editing for the journal Anthropological Theory of the Round Table between Colin Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck moderated by Donatella della Porta (held at Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 22 May 2015) 2014 (29-30 May): Convener and Chair of the Workshop Contentious Politics and Space: Constraints and Opportunities (with Anna Subirats) EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Publications 2015 Movements in Parties: OccupyPD (with Donatella della Porta), Partecipazione e Conflitto, vol. 8, no. 1, pp ESE: Salento University Publishing. DOI: /i v8i1p59

7 2016 Social Movements within Organisations: Occupy-Parties in Italy and Turkey (with Donatella della Porta and Jonas Draege), South European Society and Politics : Taylor & Francis. DOI: / Forthcoming Refocusing the Analysis of Mobilizations. Capitalism in Social Movement Research (with Lorenzo Cini, Eliska Drapalova, Federico Tomasello), Introduction to edited Special Issue, Anthropological Theory : Sage Journals. Living labour, historicity, and historical uniqueness: Antonio Negri and the sociology of social movements, an interview (with Federico Tomasello), in Cini L., Chironi D., Drapalova E., Tomasello F., Refocusing the Analysis of Mobilizations. Capitalism in Social Movement Research, Special Issue, Anthropological Theory : Sage Journals. Book Review of Damiani M. (2016), La Sinistra radicale in Europa. Italia, Spagna, Francia, Germania, Donzelli. Forthcoming in Partecipazione e Conflitto. ESE: Salento University Publishing. Submitted Social Movements and New Forms of Political Organisation: Podemos as a Hybrid Party (with Raffaella Fittipaldi), Partecipazione e Conflitto. ESE: Salento University Publishing. Other Publications 2014 (6 June) Studenti, precari e nuovi poveri. Come cambia il voto a sinistra, Il Manifesto (15 Sept.) O thanatos tou parelthontos shmainei kai to thanato enos diaforetikou mellontos: mia synentevxh me thn Luciana Castellina, [with Giorgos Souvlis], Enthemata, insert of the Greek Newspaper Avgi. [Italian translation: Sinistra, democrazia e rifondazione della politica. Intervista a Luciana Castellina, 22 January 2014, IlCorsaro.Info.

8 English translation: Unorthodox communism in Italy and the experience of the Il Manifesto group: an Interview with Luciana Castellina, 5 May 2016, LeftEast ] Participation in Conferences 2016 (10 Oct.): Presentation of the book La sinistra radicale in Europa. Italia, Spagna, Francia, Germania (Damiani M., 2016, Roma: Donzelli) Cesare Alfieri School of Political Science at FLORENCE UNIVERSITY Discussant 2016 (6 Oct.): Friends and Foes of Social Movements, ESA RN25 Social Movements Midterm Conference SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE (Florence) - Paper: Social Movements and New Forms of Political Organisation: Podemos as a Hybrid Party (with Raffaella Fittipaldi) 2015 (18 July): Democracy Rising: From Insurrection to Event, GCAS (The Global Center for Advanced Studies) Conference ATHENS UNIVERSITY (Athens) - Paper: The radical left parties in Italy: an analysis of their crisis and possible future 2015 (12 June): Cosmos Talk on Bolivia s Left-wing Government and its Relationship with the Movements that Brought it to State Power EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (Florence) - Discussant for the lectures of Leonidas Oikonomakis (Cosmos and EUI) and Oscar Olivera (Fundacion Abril and Coordinadora por la Defensa del Agua y la Vida) 2015 (17 Oct.): Potere e Democrazie: Scenari di Mutamento, Mid-term Conference of the Section of Political Sociology of AIS (Associazione italiana di sociologia) Department of History, Society and Social Sciences SALENTO UNIVERSITY (Lecce) - Paper: What Does the Occupy Movement Teach to Social-democratic Parties? Insights from the Italian Case (written with Donatella della Porta) 2015 (6 Oct.): Movements and Parties, Movement Parties, Movements in Parties SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE (Florence)

9 - Paper: Occupy-Parties in Italy and Turkey: Social Movements within Organizations (with Donatella della Porta and Jonas Draege) 2014 (17 Sept.): The Crisis: Scholarship, Policies, Conflicts and Alternatives, 5 th Annual Conference and Training Workshops of IIPPE (International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy) NAPLES UNIVERSITY L ORIENTALE (Naples) - Paper: The Social Roots of a Protest Party: an Analysis of the Class Composition of Syriza 2013 (25 Oct.): 2 nd International Congress Karl Marx Social and Political Sciences Department, NEW UNIVESITY OF LISBON (Lisbon) - Paper: The Radical Left-wing Parties and Anti-neoliberal Social Movements in Western Europe: which Strategic Interactions in Time of Economic Crisis? A Comparative Study of Italy and Greece Grants and Awards 2016 (Dec.): Awarded 6,126 euros by the Scuola Normale Superiore (Professor Donatella della Porta) for collaboration within the UE 7 PQ Cooperation Project ANTICORRP (Sept.): Awarded 6,150 euros by the Scuola Normale Superiore (Professor Donatella della Porta) for collaboration within the ERC AdG Project Mobilizing4Democracy : Awarded the Scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the completion of a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute : Awarded 2,500 euros by the EUI and Professor Donatella della Porta for bringing forward the activities of the Marxism(s) and Social Movements Working Group. 2014: Awarded a research grant (800 euros) by the EUI for organizing the workshop Contentious Politics and Space: Constraints and Opportunities (with Anna Subirats). 2012: Awarded 2,800 euros by the Head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the Florence University, Professor Paolo Turi, for collecting and organising both

10 quantitative and qualitative data on Italian political parties within the 2008 PRIN Research Cosa fanno i partiti? Reazioni e adattamento alle sfide dell antipolitica. Interests Social Movements Activist in the Student Movement, the Global Justice Movement and in the Global Commons Movement Campaigner for the 2011 Italian Referendum from below Water as a Common Organizer of cultural and social events, series of independent movie screenings, initiatives for the social use of public areas Speaker to international movement meetings, as Alter Summit (Athens 7-8 June 2013; Contribution: European movements and left-wing political parties: common strategies in times of crisis, with Hugo Leal) Political Parties Voluntary Campaigner in the 2014 European Elections and 2015 Regional Elections in Tuscany Language Skills Italian: Mother tongue English: Excellent French: Very Good Spanish: Very Good Communication Skills Excellent communication skills for teaching, public presentation and teamwork gained through my experience at the University of Florence, as well as at international and national conferences, symposia and collaborative research projects.

11 Organisational and Managerial Skills Good capacities in coordinating a team gained through my experience in research groups and movement activities ITC Skills Good command of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Open Office applications; EndNote Statistical software: Stata. I hereby specifically authorize the handling of my personal data in accordance with the provisions of Italian law n. 196/03.