Team

Director

Marco Giugni

Marco Giugni is professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations and director of the Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite). He is also European editor of the journal Mobilization: An International Journal. His main interests are social movements and political participation.

Recent books by Marco Giugni

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Secretary

Florence Mullner


secretariat-incite(at)unige.ch

Tél. +41 22 379 83 62
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Members

Çağla Aykaç

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Çağla E. Aykaç is currently a scientific collaborator at the Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite) and in the Gender studies department of the University of Geneva. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the EHESS in Paris and has been teaching courses in political sociology and qualitative methods in social sciences for several years.   Her research interests are on public debates and scandals related to Islam in Europe, forms of racism and nationalism, social movements, and contemporary Turkish society.  She participated in several large scale scientific research projects funded by transnational and European institutions.

 

Sérgio Barbosa

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Sérgio Barbosa is an ESKAS Postdoc at the University of Geneva funded by the Federal Commission For Scholarships for Foreign Studens. His research interests include the emerging forms of political participation vis-à-vis the possibilities afforded by chat apps, with emphasis on WhatsApp mediated activism and everyday social interactions, focusing on WhatsAppers, Digital Sociology, Digital Activism, Digital Literacy and Global South. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Political Studies Review, Mobile Media & Communication, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and First Monday, among others.

 

Esma Baycan

Esma Baycan studied International Relations at the Galatasaray University (BA 2009) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (MA 2010). During her theses, respectively on the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe and the Nature of European Borders, her research interests evolved more theoretical and are situated currently in contemporary normative political philosophy. She earned a Master's degree in Philosophy at KU Leuven (2012) and wrote a thesis on "David Miller's theory of migration: A Critical Assessment". She is a Ph.D. fellow working on the project "Citizenship and immigration: An empirical and normative analysis of Swiss philosophy of integration" in the framework of NCCR – on the move. She is interested in the ethics of immigration, social cohesion, liberal nationalism, civic patriotism, ideal/non-ideal theory distinction, republicanism and global justice.

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Michele Bocchiola

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Michele Bocchiola is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Geneva. Previously, he held research positions at the University of Pavia (Italy), Luiss University of Rome (Italy), and the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, SA), where he also taught ethics and political philosophy. His researches interests include the relation between personal privacy and data ownership, the ethics of anti-corruption and normative theories of institutional accountability. He is scientific collaborator II within the SNF project “Endogenous Institutional Trustworthiness – EnTrust” [https://www.unige.ch/entrust/]

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Emanuela Ceva

Emanuela Ceva is full professor of Political theory at the Department of political science and international relations of the University of Geneva. Her most recent research interests revolve around the normative theory of institutions and, in particular, the theory of political corruption and the ethics of anticorruption, as well as the political role of moral emotions. She has also directed European research projects on toleration and respect for minorities in the public space.

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Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

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Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo is a Professor of the Department of Geography and Environment (http://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/geo/index.html), also member of the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (http://cui.unige.ch). She holds a PhD in Computer Science from EPFL. Her interests include: development of ICT-based methods to foster participation and collective engagement; identification and establishment of mechanisms driving collective intelligence, e.g. decentralised collective decisions regarding policies; and evidence-based policy making. The underlying techniques are based on multi-agents systems and simulations.

 

Cristina El Khoury

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Cristina El Khoury is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Geneva. She obtained a Master's degree in Global Politics and Society at the University of Milan (2021). Afterwards, she worked at the Institute for Citizenship Studies in Geneva and in research centres in Milan. She is particularly interested in citizenship issues and in the relationship between migration, climate and conflict.

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Karine Duplan

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Karine Duplan (PhD) is an urban social and cultural geographer dedicated to issues of social inclusion and the right to the city, with specific expertise in gender, sexuality, and migration. She has been Senior lecturer and researcher at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Geneva since 2016.

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Eva Fernández G. G.

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Eva Fernández G. G. is a scientific collaborator at the University of Geneva and at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland. She works at the NCCR On the Move on a research project on post-retirement international mobilities, transnational lifestyles, and care configurations. She holds a double Ph.D. degree in Political Science and Sociology granted by the University of Geneva and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. She collaborated on the H2020 TransSOL, Sirius and Euryka projects. Her research focuses on immigration, inequality, solidarity, and political behavior. 

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Enea Fiore

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Enea Fiore is a PhD candidate in political science in cotutelle at the University of Geneva and Laval University. He is currently working on political participation and the links between political parties and social movements in the MENA region. Using a relational approach, his thesis aims to study the impact of relationships between political actors in the area at different analytical levels and in a multidirectional manner. Enea holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Turin, where he is currently working as a teaching assistant in political science.

 

 

 

Matteo Gianni

 

 

 

Matteo Gianni is full professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations since 2022. Thanks to subsidies from the Swiss National Fund, he completed scientific stays at Rutgers University and the University of Toronto. Among his activities, he is co-president of the ASSP Political Theory Group and participates in the research activities of the NCCR On the move since 2014. From a theoretical-normative perspective, he works on questions of citizenship, democracy, deliberation, multiculturalism, migrations and mobility.

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Nathalie Giger

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Nathalie Giger is Assistant Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations since 2014. Before she conducted research and teaching activities in the University of Zurich, the University of Mannheim and the University Of Konstanz. She obteined her Ph.D. from the University of Bern in 2009. Teaching and research on comparative political behavior.

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Valentina Holecz

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Valentina Holecz is a scientific collaborator at the Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite) at the University of Geneva. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science granted by the University of Geneva. She collaborated on the H2020 Livewhat and Euryka projects. She has collaborated on the SNFS research project ‘Offensive Discourse in Political Arenas’ in 2014. Her research focuses on citizenship studies, young people, social movement and political participation.

 

 

Youssef Khoueiry

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Youssef khoueiry is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Geneva. He is currently working on political and social in the MENA region. Using an interdisciplinary approach, his thesis aims to study the impact of family and kin's civil war grievances,  national non-natural tragedies and exclusion by law of youth between the ages of 18 and 21 from participation in the national elections on younger family members' political orientation and participation. Youssef holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering (Lebanese university), a masters degree in engineering management (AUB) and a masters degree in international relations from the Lebanese American university (LAU), where he is currently working as a teaching assistant in political science.

 

Basel Mansour

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Basel Mansour is a doctoral student at SPERI. His thesis contributes to the academic discussion on normative solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He proposes a conceptual relationship between the normative prescriptions dominant in the literature and develops an integrative model advocating a bottom-up conception of historical reconciliation. It then examines the role played by the Palestinian community in Israel (PCI) at this level through an analysis in framing theory (social movements).

 

Ophelia Nicole-Berva
Elena Reinhart

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Elena Reinhart is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Geneva. She is currently working as a research assistant on the DEMETRA project, which aims to develop tools for a democratic governance of sustainability transformations. Her research interests include deliberative participatory processes and political inequalities. She is supervised by Professor Marco Giugni.

 

 

 

 

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