Dr Nicola Montagna

Lecturer in Criminology

Department: School of Health and Social Sciences

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Qualifications

BA MSc PhD

Research Interests

Youth and urban movements; social movements and globalisation; civil society and third sector; social policy; immigration; sustainable development; political and sociological thought; research methods.

Teaching Interests

Sociology, Political Sociology

Biography

Education

  • 2005 PhD Social Youth Movements in Italy, Middlesex University
  • 1999 MSc Sociology, London School of Economics, University of London
  • 1994 BA Philosophy, Milan University

Employment

  • Current Research Fellow, Middlesex University
  • 2004 Lecturer in Research Methods (PT), School of Sociology and Social Research, Milan University
  • 2002-2004 Research Fellow (PT), Research Centre on Environment and Sustainable Development, Brescia University
  • 2001-2003 Consultant (PT), Social Policy Observatory, Venice Council
  • 2000-2003 Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy (PT), IAL Lombardia, Brescia

Selected publications

Books

  • Montagna, N. (2006). Forme di comunicazione ambientale: il caso della municipalizzata di Brescia, Vita e Pensiero: Milan.
  • Montagna, N et al. (2006). Dal Rapporto Ambientale al Rapporto di Sostenibilità: evoluzione della comunicazione ambientale, Vita e Pensiero: Milan.

 

Edited books

  • Montagna N., Ruggiero V. (2008). Social Movements. A Reader, Routledge: London. Book of the month for the European Sociological Association for September 2008,
  • Montagna, N. (ed.) (2007). I Movimenti Sociali e la Mobilitazione Globale (contributions by Mario Pianta, Donatella della Porta, Doug McAdam, Dietr Rucht, Vincenzo Ruggiero, Sidney Tarrow) Franco Angeli: Milan.
  • Montagna, N. & Tacchi, E.M. (2004). La comunicazione ambientale in alcune imprese pubbliche e private(The environmental communication of public and private companies). Franco Angeli: Milan.
  • Montagna, N. (2002). Controimpero. Manifestolibri: Rome

 

Book Chapters

  • Montagna N. (2010) “L'immigrazione irregolare nel Regno Unito”, in V. Cesareo (ed.) Sedicesimo rapporto sulle migrazioni 2010, Franco Angeli, Milano (peer reviewed)
  • Montagna N. (2009) “Migrazione e recessione nel Regno Unito”, in V. Cesareo (ed.) Quindicesimo rapporto sulle migrazioni 2009, Franco Angeli, Milano (peer reviewed)
  • Montagna N. (2009) Five entries on some Italian Social Movements of the last forty years including the Peace movement in Italy, the Occupied Social Centres, the Anti-Psychiatric Movement and the Anti Racist Movement, in Immanuel Ness (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, Blackwell Publishing, Boston.
  • Montagna N. (2009) “La nuova migrazione cinese nel Regno Unito”, in M. Lombardi (ed.) Quattordicesimo rapporto sulle migrazioni 2008, Franco Angeli, Milano
  • Rosemary Sales, Xiujing Liang, Nicola Montagna and Alessio D’Angelo (2008) “London’s Chinatown: branded place or community space?” in Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, and Catherine Kevin (eds.) Branding Cities and Cultural Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change, Routledge, London (in press)
  • Montagna, N. (2008) “Chinatown, Londra: città vetrina e luogo d’appartenenza”, in CIRMiB, Immigrazione e contesti locali. Annuario CIRMiB 2008", Vita & Pensiero, Milano (in press)
  • Montagna, N. (2007). Rappresentanza ed autorganizzazione: il welfare dal basso dei Centri Sociali del Nord-Est. In Tommaso Vitale (ed),Rappresentanza e movimenti urbani. Franco Angeli: Milan.
  • Montagna, N. (2004). La rigenerazione sociale dal basso(The social regeneration from below). In Dragotto-Gargiulo (ed),Aree dismesse e città. Esperienze di metodo, effetti di qualità. Franco Angeli: Milan.
  • Montagna, N. (2002). Der Früling der Migrantinnen (Migrant struggles in Brescia, Italy). In D. Azzellini & G. Gleitze (eds),Italien: Legalisierung von Flüchtlingen – Militarisierung der Grenzen? FFM: Berlin.

 

Journal articles

  • Hatziprokopriou P. and Montagna, N. (2011) “Contested Chinatown: Chinese migrants incorporation and the urban space in London and Milan”, forthcoming in Ethnicities
  • Sales, R., Hatziprokopiou, P., Christiansen, F., D'Angelo, A., Liang, X., Lin, X., and Montagna, N. (2011) “London's Chinatown: Diaspora, identity and belonging”, forthcoming in International Journal of Business & Globalisation
  • Montagna N. (2010) “The making of a global movement. Cycles of protest and scale of action”, Sociological Review,58 (4), pp638-655.
  • Montagna N. (2010) “Desobediencia global: ¿el adiós al Estado-nación?” Veredas: Revista del Pensamiento Sociológico, 11 (21); pp25-45.
  • Montagna N. (2010) “Identità Antagoniste Itinerari dell’«autonomia» negli anni ottanta”Zapruder, sotrie in movimento, 21 (peer reviewed), pp142-152.
  • Montagna, N. (2006). “The decommodification of urban space and the Centro Sociale Rivolta”, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action10(3), pp295-304.
  • Montagna, N. (2003). Modelli organizzativi delle cooperative sociali (organisational models and transformations of third sector organisations). Impresa Sociale, 69/70, pp15-30.
  • Montagna, N. (2002). Welfare e comunità un programma di rigenerazione sostenibile a Lewisham, Londra’ (Welfare and Community: a sustainable regeneration programme in Lewisham, South-East London). Studi di Sociologia, 2, pp42-60.
  • Montagna, N. (2001). La primavera dei migranti (The migrants spring). Posse-A Political and Philosophical Review, 2,Winter 2001, pp135-150.

 

Reports

  • Kofman E, Lukes S., D’Angelo A., Montagna N. (2009) The Equality Implications Of Being A Migrant In Britain: A Review,Research Report for theEqual and Human Rights Commission
  • Sales, R., Hatziprokopiou, P., Christiansen, F., D'Angelo, A., Liang, X., Lin, X., and Montagna, N. (2009) London's Chinatown: Diaspora, identity and belonging, AHRC Diasporas, Migration Identities programme. Social Policy Research Centre Working Paper Series, WP n. 3, Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University. (available online:
  • Kofman E, Lukes S., D’Angelo A., Montagna N. (2007) New Migrant and their Needs in England, Research Report for the Refugees Housing Association
  • Jubany O., Sales R. et al. (2005) SMILING (Skilled Migrants and Labour Market Integration), European Commission, VI Framework Programme
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