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Mario Diani is professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, that he joined in 2001 and where he served as head of the Department of Sociology and social research and as dean of the Faculty of Sociology. Earlier, he was Chair of Sociology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (1996-2001), where he served as head of the Department of Government. Between 2010 and 2012 he was ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

He was the European editor of Mobilization from 1997-2005. He has served on a number of editorial boards including Contemporary Sociology, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Interest Groups & Advocacy, European Journal of Social Theory, Environmental Politics, Irish Journal of Sociology, South European Society and Politics, Quaderni di Sociologia, and Quaderni di Scienza Politica.

Books in English include The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements (co-edited with Donatella della Porta, in press),The Cement of Civil Society: Studying Networks in Localities (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Social movements: An Introduction (with Donatella della Porta, Blackwell, 2006, translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish, and Mandarin), Social movements and networks (co-edited with Doug McAdam, Oxford University Press, 2003), Beyond Tocqueville. The social capital debate in comparative perspective (co-edited with Bob Edwards and Michael Foley, University Press of New England, 2001, translated into Serbian), Green Networks (Edinburgh University Press, 1995) and Studying collective action (co-edited with Ron Eyerman, Sage, 1992).

His articles have appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Social Networks, Sociological Review, Acta Sociologica, European Journal of Social Theory, Mobilization, Interest Groups & Advocacy, International Social Movement Research, Social Science Information, Res Publica, Environmental Politics, Information, Communication & Society, Social Movement Studies, Revista Vasca de Sociologia y Ciencia Politica, Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Quaderni di Sociologia, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali, il Mulino, Democrazia e Diritto, Quaderni di Azione Sociale, Quaderni Piacentini, Partecipazione e Conflitto.

Recent or current research projects address the structure of civic urban networks in Cape Town, network theories of social movements and collective action, the structure of civil society in British cities, participation in the 2003 anti-war protests in Western democracies, social capital and multicultural democracy, global networks of mobilization on communication rights.
Phone: +39 0461 281417 (office)
Address: Department of Sociology & Social Research
University of Trento
Via Verdi 26
38122 Trento
Italy

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