Pubblicazioni - Anna Lavizzari

Books

2020. Lavizzari, A. Protesting Gender: The LGBTIQ Movement and its Opponents in Italy. Abingdon: Routledge.

Peer-reviewed articles

2026. Lavizzari, A. & Terlizzi, A. Strategies of agenda denial: Anti-gender opposition to LGBTQ+ policies in Italy. European Journal of Political Research. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1475676526101327
2026. Lavizzari, A. & Beyer Gregersen, A. The transnational diffusion of anti-trans discourse: a comparative analysis of Denmark and Italy. Journal of Gender Studies, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2651823
2025. Bonu Rosenkranz G. & Lavizzari, A. Education as a field of contention: feminist and anti-gender struggles over democracy. Social Politics. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaf058
2025. Gaiaschi C, Lavizzari A., & Perego A. Gender disparities in early-stage academic careers: A mixed-method analysis of Italian political scientists’ experiences in neoliberal academia. Italian Political Science. Accepted for publication.
2025. Lavizzari A. The anti-gender movement and the populist radical right in Italy: A symbiotic relationship. European Journal of Politics and Gender 8(1): 207–233. https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088Y2024D000000047
2025. Della Porta D., Hunger S., Hutter S., & Lavizzari A. Understanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Movement Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2025.2554603
2024. Della Porta D., Hunger S., Hutter S., & Lavizzari A. Expanding protest event analysis through videos. Mobilization29(2): 245–262. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-29-2-245
2024. Della Porta D. & Lavizzari A. Framing health and care: Legacies and innovation in times of pandemic. Social Movement Studies 23(6): 738–755. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2134109
2023. Lavizzari A. & Pirro ALP. The gender politics of populist parties in Southern Europe. West European Politics 47(7): 1473–1502. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2023.2246110
2023. Beaman J. Doerr N., Kocyba P., Lavizzari A., Zayak S. Black Lives Matter and the new wave of anti-racist mobilizations in Europe. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 10(4): 497–507. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2023.2274234
2023. Della Porta D., Lavizzari A., Reiter H. Sommer M., Steinhilper E., & Ajayi F. Patterns of adaptation and recontextualization: the transnational diffusion of Black Lives Matter to Italy and Germany. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 10(4): 653–677. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2023.2239324
2023. Bosi L., & Lavizzari A. How young activists responded to the first wave of the Covid-19 crisis in Italy. Mobilization28(1): 89–107. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-28-1-89
2023. Lavizzari A. & Portos, M. Urban rebels? A gendered approach to domicile and protest participation in nine European countries. Sociology 57(59): 1078–1100. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221129945
2023. Lavizzari A. & Sirocic Z. Contentious gender politics in Italy and Croatia: Localization of transnational anti-gender movements to national contexts. Social Movement Studies 22(4): 475–493. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2052836
(Shortlisted for the Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize, 2022)
2022. Uba, K., Lavizzari, A. & Portos M. Experience of economic hardship and right-wing political orientation hinder climate concern among European young people. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 31(3): 835–856. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2061433
2022. Della Porta, D. & Lavizzari A. Waves in Cycle: The protests against anti-contagion measures and vaccination in Covid-19 times in Italy. PArtecipazione e COnflitto (PACO) 15(3): 720–740.
2022. Della Porta D., Lavizzari A. & Reiter H. The spreading of the Black Lives Matter movement campaign: the Italian case in cross-national perspective. Sociological Forum 37(3): 700–721. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12818
2022. Bosi L., Lavizzari A., & Portos M. The impact of intolerance on young people’s online political participation. Politics 42(1): 95–127. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211014453
2022. Bosi L., Lavizzari A., & Voli S. Comparing young people’s participation across political organizations from a life-course perspective. Journal of Youth Studies 25(4): 433–451. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1892618
2019. Bosi L., Lavizzari A., & Voli S. Representation of youth in the public debate: does the political leaning of newspapers have any effect? American Behavioral Scientist 4(5): 620–637. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219885437
2019. D’Amato S., & Lavizzari A. The migration triangle: narratives, justice and politics of migration in France. International Spectator 54(3): 37–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2019.1643638
2018. Lavizzari A., & Prearo M. The anti-gender movement in Italy: Catholic participation between electoral and protest politics. European Societies 21(3): 422–442. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2018.1536801

Book chapters

2025. Lavizzari A., Barone A., Bonu Rosenkranz G. “Contentious gender politics in Italy: Feminist responses to anti-gender mobilizations”. In R. Kuhar, R. Smrdelj (eds.) Anti-gender mobilizations in Europe and the Feminist Response: Resisting the Backlash, Palgrave MacMillan.
2024. Lavizzari A., & Bonu Rosenkranz G. “L’educazione come campo di battaglia: movimenti anti-gender e femministi a confronto”. In E. Bernacchi, G. Bonu Rosenkranz (eds.) Eppur si muove: Ripensare il genere in campo educativo e culturale. Castelvecchi.
2021. Lavizzari A., & Portos M. “Disclosing inequalities: Gender and patterns of political participation among the Italian youth”. In M. Giugni, M. Grasso (eds.) Youth and Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities, Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-63676-0_4
2020. Lavizzari A. “Youth participation and gender identities: The LGBT movement and the Catholic countermovement in Italy”. In V. Cuzzocrea, B. Bello and Y. Kazepov (eds.). Italian Youth in International Context: Belonging, Constraints and Opportunities, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Italian-Youth-in-International-Context-Belonging-Constraints-and-Opportunities/Cuzzocrea-Bello-Kazepov/p/book/9781032172699

Special issues

2023. Beaman J. Doerr N., Kocyba P., Lavizzari A., Zayak S. Black Lives Matter and the new wave of anti-racist mobilizations in Europe. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Volume 10, Issue 4. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/recp20/10/4

Encyclopedia entries

2026. Forthcoming. Lavizzari A. Neoconservatism. In: The Global Anti-Gender Studies Dictionary, edited by D. Paternotte, S. Correa, M. Cabral Grinspan, R. Kuhar.
2025. Lavizzari A. Anti-gender movements. In: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender, edited by L. K. Roberts, pp. 32–37.
2025. Lavizzari A. & Bonu Rosenkranz G. Protest politics. In: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender, edited by L. K. Roberts, pp. 1188–1194.

Research reports, policy studies, and working papers

2024. Lavizzari A. Young people’s participation in the 2024 European elections. Council of Europe and European Commission.
2023. Lavizzari A. & Yurttagüler L. Contemporary forms of young women’s participation: priorities, challenges and ways forward? Council of Europe and European Commission.
2021. Barta O. & Lavizzari A. Insights – Meaningful youth political participation in Europe. Council of Europe and European Commission.
2021. Barta O., Boldt G., & Lavizzari A. Meaningful youth political participation in Europe: Concepts, patterns and policy implications. Council of Europe and European Commission.
2021. Feo, Francesca & Lavizzari A. Triumph of the women? The female face of right-wing populism and extremism.Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
2021. Pitti I., Lavizzari A. & Merico M. Youth and the World. In: Youth Wiki (Italy), European Commission.
2015. Lavizzari A. Intersectionality Research. IGLYO.
2023. Lavizzari A. National Country Report: Italy. WP1 Working Paper. Deliverable of the Horizon Europe Programme FIERCE project.
2021. Milman N., Folashade A., Della Porta D., Doerr N., Kocyba P., Lavizzari A., Plucienniczak P., Sommer M., Steinhilper E., Zajak, S. (11/6). Black Lives Matter in Europe. Transnational Diffusion, Local Translation and Resonance of Anti-Racist Protest in Germany, Italy, Denmark and Poland. German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM).
2019. Lavizzari A. & Bosi L. National Country Report: Italy. WP6 Working Paper. Deliverable of the Horizon 2020 Programme EURYKA project