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Guya Accornero
Department of Political Science and Public Policy
Office D2.22
Telephone 217650335
(ext:) 221393
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Politics and Citizenship
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I am a Senior Lecturer with tenure in Political Science at Iscte-IUL, a researcher at CIES-Iscte, a delegate for Iscte-IUL at the Pioneer Alliance, and co-chair of the Council of Europe's Social Movements Research Network. Since 2020, I have co-coordinated the Politics and Citizenship research group (CIES-Iscte) and am currently director of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation. Between 2018 and 2022, I coordinated, as PI, the FCT-funded research project HOPES - HOusing PErspectives and Struggles. Futures of housing movements, policies, and dynamics in Lisbon and beyond (€230,000). My area of research is social movements, with a special interest in processes of political radicalization, the role of protest in political change, digital activism, gentrification, and movements for the right to housing and the city. I have published several articles in journals such as Housing Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Partecipazione e Conflitto, Current Sociology, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, ... [more info]
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