Luca Alteri
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy

Luca Alteri is fellow researcher at Sapienza University of Rome and coordinates the area of research in Society and Urban Studies of “S. Pio V” Institute of Political Studies. His research deals with political and social participation. He edited La nuova politica. Mobilitazioni, movimenti e conflitti in Italia, with Luca Raffini (Napoli, 2014) and Le città nella crisi, monographic issue of “La rivista delle politiche sociali”, with Paolo De Nardis, 1, 2016.

Carmen Leccardi
University of Milan Bicocca
Italy

Carmen Leccardi is professor of Cultural Sociology and director of the PhD program in Applied Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca. Here she is director of the Interuniversity Centre of Women’s Studies ‘Gender Cultures’ (‘Culture di genere’). She is a former president of the European Sociological Association (2013-15). She has researched extensively in the field of youth cultures, gender, cultural change and time experience. Her last book, edited with Carles Feixa and Pam Nilan, is Youth, Space and Time. Agoras and Chronotopes in the Global City (Leiden, 2016).

Luca Raffini
University of Genoa
Italy

Luca Raffini is fellow researcher at the University of Genoa. His main research interests are youth condition, political and social participation, precarity, mobility and migration, social innovation. Among his recent publications: L’economia della condivisione tra retoriche, ambiguità e lati oscuri. Riflessioni a partire dal caso Airbnb, “La rivista di politiche sociali”, 1, 2016; Volontariato e impresa sociale. L’innovazione sociale come risposta alla crisi (Firenze, 2015).