Docenti, tutor e ricercatori
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Institute for Advanced Studies in Florence.
My current work ranges from sociological theory, sociology of knowledge and expertise, collective action and technological innovation with a specific focus on labor and environment. My book The Contentious Politics of Expertise (London-New York: Routledge, 2020) looks at how expertise and knowledge intersect political processes, social movements and institutions in the definition of environmental issues and technological projects. I am at present working on the social shaping of digital capitalism and industry 4.0 and its impact on labor processes, collective agency and identity. My essays have been published in English in: European Journal of Political and Cultural Sociology, Global Dialogue, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Partecipazione & Conflitto, Sociologica.
As a visiting scholar I spent a semester at the Urban Democracy Lab, New York University in 2016; as a research associate I worked at Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan . I have organized workshops and taught courses at the European University Institute, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Milano-Bicocca.
Work, Technology and Social Conflicts
Monografia
Chesta, R.E. (2020). The Contentious Politics of Expertise. Experts, Activism and Grassroots Environmentalism, Routledge, New York-London, 2020
Articoli in rivista
Chesta, R.E. (2020). A Factory of Sociologies from Fiat to FCA. Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debate, (2)14, 265-271. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11400
Chesta, R.E., Zamponi, L., Caciagli, C. (2020). Labour Activism and Social movement Unionism in the Gig Economy: Food Delivery Workers’ Struggles in Italy. Partecipazione & Conflitto, 12 (3), 819-844. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v12i3p819
Chesta, R.E. (2019). Riconoscere, identificare, spiegare. L’arte di teorizzare e la sociologia di AlessandroPizzorno. Società, Mutamento, Politica. Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 10(20), 179-189. https://doi.org/10.13128/smp-11056
Chesta, R.E. (2019). Essay-Review. Baiocchi, G. (2018) We the Sovereign. London: Polity Press. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 6(2), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2019.1662620
Caruso, L., Chesta, R.E., Cini, L. (2019). Le Nuove Mobilitazioni dei Lavoratori nel Capitalismo Digitale: una Comparazione tra i Ciclo-Fattorini della Consegna di Cibo e i Corrieri di Amazon nel Caso Italiano. Economia e Società Regionale, 26 (1), 61-78.
Chesta, R.E. (2019). The Modern Prince and The Sociological Imagination. A conversation with Michael Burawoy. Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debates, 13(1), 83-96 https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9392
Chesta, R.E. (2017). Sociology and Its Public. A Conversation with Craig Calhoun. Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debates, 11(3), 1-24 https://doi.org/10.2383/89513
Chesta, R.E. (2017). Stranger in His Own Land. Gramsci and Italian Sociology. Global Dialogue. Magazine of the International Sociological Association, 3(7), 6-8
http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/gramsci-a-stranger-in-his-own-land/
Chesta, R.E. (2016). Critique and Crisis in Social Sciences. A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck. Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debates, 3(10) 1-18. https://doi.org/10.2383/85816
Chesta, R.E. (2016). Between Science and Literature. Luciano Gallino and the Culture of Italian Sociology. Studi Culturali, 13(1), 83-101, https://doi.org/10.1405/83213
Contributi in volume
Chesta, R.E. (2021). A New Labor Unionism in Digital Taylorism? Explaining the First Cycle of Worker Contention at Amazon Logistics. In Klumpp, M., Ruiner, C. (Eds.), Digital Supply Chains and the Human Factor. Berlin: Springer.
Chesta, R.E., Vitale, T. (2019). Ancora «Motore della Storia?» Il Ritorno delle Classi Popolari nella Sociologia Contemporanea. In Caruso, L., Bertuzzi, N., Caciagli, C. (Eds.), Popolo Chi? Classi Popolari, Periferie e Politica in Italia. Rome: Ediesse.
Chesta, R.E. (2019). Kaizen. Toyotismo e Fattore Umano oltre il Determinismo Tecnologico. In Frascati, P., (Eds.) Le Eredità delle Crisi. Quaderni 31. Milan: Fondazione Feltrinelli.
Chesta, R.E. (2018). Classico dell’epistemologia politica? Storia e attualità de l’inchiesta operaia di Karl Marx, in Chesta, R.E. (Eds.), Sul Campo: L’Inchiesta Operaia di Marx: comprendere il mondo per cambiarlo. Utopie/HistoryBox. Milan: Fondazione Feltrinelli.
Comunicazione innovativa, multimediale e digitale
Insegnamento: Fondamenti di Scienze Sociali