Papers by Stellamarina Donato
Donato, S. Women Migrant Returnees as Intermediaries: Exploring Empowerment and Agency of Migrant Women Returnees in the EU-MENA Region. Int. Migration & Integration (2023). , 2023
This article investigates the experiences of women's migrant returnees in the EU-MENA region. It ... more This article investigates the experiences of women's migrant returnees in the EU-MENA region. It aims to elucidate their navigation of the complexities associated with return and their contributions to the development and empowerment of local women, migrant women, and prospective returnees. It recognizes that women's migration journeys entail a multitude of challenges, including gender-specific barriers, social norms, cultural expectations, and legal and institutional constraints. Nevertheless, it argues that women's returns can serve as a transformative process that enhances opportunities for women's empowerment and agency, particularly as intermediaries of women's migration. By bridging the knowledge and resource gaps between the EU and MENA regions, these women have the potential to provide valuable insights that inform policies and practices related to migration, development, and gender equality. Additionally, analyzing the dynamics of empowerment and agency among women's migrant returnees contributes to broader discussions on gender, migration, and social change. To achieve its objectives, this study employed qualitative research methods, including case studies, comparative analysis, and in-depth interviews. By prioritizing the voices and narratives of women's migrant returnees, this study ensures a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of their experiences, aspirations, and contributions to the field of women's migration.
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Violence Against Women
Actions to counter violence against women are a fully fledged policy field with significant diffe... more Actions to counter violence against women are a fully fledged policy field with significant differences across countries. Through a comparative analysis of Spain and Italy, this article maps the interplay between women's movements and national governments in launching violence against women (VAW) policies. In Spain, policy formation was the outcome of dual feminist–socialist activism, leading to dialogue between movements and the government. In Italy, movements opposed the government from the outside. In both countries, the critical factor inciting responsiveness on VAW was not one single variable but a combination of political opportunity, movement identity, dedicated women's policy agencies, and the soft power of international institutions.
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Corradi, C., & Donato, S. (2023). Movements’ Dynamics and Government Responsiveness to Violence Against Women: A Study Set Against Political and Social Change in Spain and Italy. Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231177999, 2023
Actions to counter violence against women are a fully fledged policy field with significant diffe... more Actions to counter violence against women are a fully fledged policy field with significant differences across countries. Through a comparative analysis of Spain and Italy, this article maps the interplay between women's movements and national governments in launching violence against women (VAW) policies. In Spain, policy formation was the outcome of dual feminist–socialist activism, leading to dialogue between movements and the government. In Italy, movements opposed the government from the outside. In both countries, the critical factor inciting responsiveness on VAW was not one single variable but a combination of political opportunity, movement identity, dedicated women's policy agencies, and the soft power of international institutions.
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Comunello, F., Donato, S., Ieracitano, F., & Belotti, F. (2023). Stereotyped gender roles and scripts in digital dating abuse: Narratives from an Italian high school. Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 11(Gender Issues: Trajectories of Change in the Italian Mediascape), 313-329., 2023
This study analyses teenage narratives of digital dating abuse (DDA) by focusing on how the sense... more This study analyses teenage narratives of digital dating abuse (DDA) by focusing on how the sense-giving processes of social media usage practices interplay with sexist stereotypes and gender scripts. The theoretical framework draws upon gender-oriented studies on DDA and upon literature on gender and technology, which accounts for the mutual shaping relationship between gender-based social norms, and user negotiations with social media affordances. We carried out seven focus groups in Rome with 43 high school students aged 14 to 16. Responses show that, although both girls and boys perpetrate and suffer DDA on social media, participants interpret it according to gender scripts and classify users based on sexist stereotypes. Findings also reveal that perception of the seriousness of DDA is blurred by the combination of gender scripts and the meanings attached to social media usage practices. DDA is likely to be tolerated unless it has concrete fallout offline, where abuse is tangible.
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International Review of Sociology , 2022
So far, the focus on violence has been it as a concept and its evolution within contemporary soci... more So far, the focus on violence has been it as a concept and its evolution within contemporary societies. For instance, several studies consider violence to be influenced by singular cultural issues and perceptions, with the primary point being the presence of an authoritative presence capable of acting violently.
Others instead focus on the degrees and typologies of violence and question the role of modernity in the execution of acts of violence by individuals, who are often both victims and perpetrators. In this article, we draw upon a theoretical reflection concerning the role of violence as a sociological concept. We highlight the transformations it has undergone considering the
technological developments and its presence in online spaces. The aim is to stress the mutual shaping relationship between the online and offline realms regarding violence against women (although the subject could also involve other communities like the LGBTQI+, migrants, people with disabilities, etc.). Via our theoretical point of reference and examples, we highlight how the perception of the seriousness of violence is nuanced depending on the environment in which it occurs. Similarly, we argue that its acceptability or condemnation becomes the result of culturally metabolised principles and rules that characterise certain societies.
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Cultura Latinoamericana. Revista de estudios interculturales
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El artículo propone analizar el papel de las organizaciones internacio-nales (ONU, COE) en el deb... more El artículo propone analizar el papel de las organizaciones internacio-nales (ONU, COE) en el debate sobre la libertad y la justicia social co-mo parte de los derechos humanos. Con énfasis particular en los dere-chos de las mujeres, el objetivo de la contribución es mostrar cómo la perspectiva del gender blind ha caracterizado el panorama de las orga-nizaciones durante 45 años para moverse hacia los temas de "sólo mujeres" y "transversalidad de género (gender mainstreaming)" solo recientemente, con los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) primero y, desde 2015, con los SDGs.
El artículo utiliza un análisis de contenido cualitativo para comprender cuáles fueron los términos y enfoques teóricos implícitos y explícitos que marcaron la evolución de la libertad y la justicia social como con-stituyentes de los derechos humanos y de las mujeres a vivir una vida sin violencia.
El texto quiere poner de relieve cómo las palabras configuran gran par-te de nuestra realidad social y cambian la forma de enfocar el mundo contemporáneo y construir nuestros futuros próximos, y no sólo la memoria de los futuros deseados (Jedlowski, 2017).
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Review of the book by Ruspini, E., Bonifacio, G.T. & Corradi, C. (eds), Women and Religion: C... more Review of the book by Ruspini, E., Bonifacio, G.T. & Corradi, C. (eds), Women and Religion: Contemporary and future challenges in the Global Era, University of Bristol, Policy Press, 2018.
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Belotti, F., Ieracitano, F., Donato, S., & Comunello, F. (2022). Towards ‘romantic media ideologies’: digital dating abuse seen through the lens of social media and/or dating in teenage narratives. The Communication Review. , 2022
The article addresses the teenagers’ perception of those forms of teen dating violence that occur... more The article addresses the teenagers’ perception of those forms of teen dating violence that occur on digital media (i.e., ‘digital dating abuse,’ DDA), such as snooping around, controlling behaviors, and aggravated sexting. It contributes to the strand of studies on DDA and those on the mutual shaping relationship between technology and society by focusing on the interplay between social media usage practices and dating practices among teenagers narrating DDA. We carried out 7 focus groups in Rome with 43 high school students aged 14–16 years, in order to explore whether and how the negotiation with social media platforms and the interaction between dating partners affect the adolescents’ perception of DDA. The thematic analysis reveals that participants refer to idioms of practice informed by media ideologies when seeing DDA as an issue related to social media, or to dating scripts supported by romantic ideologies when seeing it as an issue related to dating. They oscillate between these two interpretative ‘lenses,’ thus intertwining the platform social usage norms and broader societal beliefs surrounding dating relationships. In doing so, they give rise to ‘digital dating scripts’ and ‘romantic media ideologies’ which nowadays rule their dating relationships in a very specific way.
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Belotti, F., Donato, S., Bussoletti, A., & Comunello, F. (2022). Youth Activism for Climate on and Beyond Social media: Insights from FridaysForFuture-Rome. The International Journal of Press/Politics., 2022
The FridaysForFuture movement (FFF), launched by Greta Thumberg's school strikes in 2018, has led... more The FridaysForFuture movement (FFF), launched by Greta Thumberg's school strikes in 2018, has led a new wave of climate activism worldwide. Young people are at the forefront, with social media serving both as mobilizing tools and expressive spaces. Drawing upon literature on youth and digital activism with a generational, situated approach, we account for how both the climate struggle and social media are appropriated by FFF-activists as part of their own youth grassroots politics. Moreover, we explore the activities they mix and the strategies they adopt when moving across online and offline environments. From July 2020 to January 2021, we carried out 6 months of ethnographic work with(in) the FFF-Rome group by blending participant observation of assemblies and protests with digital ethnography on the homonym WhatsApp group. Results’ thematic analysis shows that FFF-activists believe climate activism to be their own fight and social media their own battlefield. A generational understanding of digital climate activism emerges at the intersection of the appropriation of the dispute (climate change) and the digital environments (social media). Findings also account for broader logics and strategies adopted by FFF-activists, on and beyond social media. They move seamlessly between online and offline, spanning across and negotiating with different platforms according to political goals and target audiences. These results contribute to overcoming reductive or marginalizing approaches to youth activism, to legitimizing and situating young activists’ social media usage practices within an array of grassroots political practices, and to understanding how generational belonging affects such practices in the Italian context.
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Cultura Latinoamericana, 2021
This article addresses the issue of populist foreign policy in Argentina and
employs a multi-meth... more This article addresses the issue of populist foreign policy in Argentina and
employs a multi-methods research that combines discourse analysis, foreign policy analysis, and historical political reconstruction of Kirchnerism.
Theoretically, we refer to populism as an “Ideational Approach” and we
consider Destradi and Plegaman’s thematic lines in order to investigate
populism in world politics. Throughout the paper, we argue that left-wing
populist foreign policy does not discriminate against international cooperation and globalization per se but in a Manichean vision of the world, it
criticizes western rich countries, and proposes the creation of new regional alliances.
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AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021
Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well as physical (offline) spaces in... more Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well as physical (offline) spaces in novel ways, opening up new environments of affordances. In everyday life these mobile online and offline spaces are increasingly interdependent and interwoven in manifold ways. Practices, experiences, meanings and expectations are negotiated across these spaces, while at the same time they are bound by the respective logics and limitations, leading to new interrelations and contradictions. The mobile, interlocking but non-converging nature of these spaces involves issues of access and power in struggles over in(ter)dependencies and leads to significant method(odolog)ical, practical and ethical challenges for researchers, to which the current COVID-19 pandemic only adds complexity. Researchers are confronted with questions such as: What are appropriate designs to study mobile online and offline spaces and their intersections? Do interdependent spaces call for likewise interdependent meth...
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While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be an issue, the retaliations on nation-states’ politica... more While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be an issue, the retaliations on nation-states’ political, socio-cultural and, more than ever, economic structures are deemed to be- or are they yet- dire. The paper aims to broadly discuss the reaction of European leaders to the emergence of COVID-19 and the undercurrents in terms of power and discourse on the European Union -EU-. The first part introduces chronologically the diffusion of the virus from China to Europe and, specifically, Italy. Later, it focuses on the first reactions of EU politicians to the growing epidemic until the international recognition of the emergency as global pandemic. It, then, moves to the second most damaged country inside the EU sphere, Spain. It lastly compares the state’s reactions by methodologically employ comparison of units and discourse analysis as pillars for this research. The final aim is to explore patterns in the EU leaders' communication of emergency due to COVID-19 within the framework of th...
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Donato, S. (2021). La violencia de género contra las mujeres: un fenómeno global en tiempos de pandemia. Los casos de Italia y España. Cultura Latinoamericana, 33(1), pp. 226-249, 2021
La violencia de género contra las mujeres (GBVAW) es un problema social muy arraigado en las soci... more La violencia de género contra las mujeres (GBVAW) es un problema social muy arraigado en las sociedades que se encuentra desde siempre en un momento crítico y que hay que abordar a nivel global. Este artículo se ocupa de la GBVAW durante los meses de marzo-octubre 2020 y compara los casos de Italia y España. La investigación adopta una metodología de casos similares basada en una cuidadosa reconstrucción de los acontecimientos y una evaluación del nivel de respuesta de los gobiernos a la GBVAW. De hecho, mientras el COVID-19 se extendía, las diferencias entre los dos países mediterráneos en el grado de «reacción» (responsiveness) han sido bastante evidentes. El Gobierno español fue activo en la presentación de medidas prácticas y directrices para hacer frente a la GBVAW. En cambio, el Gobierno italiano decidió informar en voz baja en lugar de actuar y presentar medidas específicas. Palabras clave Violencia de género contra las mujeres, COVID-19, reacción de los gobiernos, España, Italia.
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Donato, S., 2020
This article addresses the issue of gender-based violence against women (GBVAW) during the COVID-... more This article addresses the issue of gender-based violence against women (GBVAW) during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. With an emphasis on intimate partner violence (IPV), it focuses on the degree of government responsiveness to this issue and compares the cases of Spain and Italy: two European countries that – from March to May 2020 – were among the hardest hit during the coronavirus pandemic. The aim of this paper is twofold: to investigate how the two nation-states dealt with violence against women (VAW) during the pandemic – which mostly refers to intimate and couple relationships – and to compare their different degrees of government responsiveness in this specific section of progressive social policies. While COVID-19 was spreading, the country ruled by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez proved to be very active in advancing practical guidelines and measures to deal with GBVAW, whereas Italy, governed by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, didn’t act likewise. The article adopts a multi-method approach and argues that the way a specific society presents a social phenomenon influences its response in terms of policies. Furthermore, this investigation claims that the dialogue between civil society and the institutional level needs to be reinvigorated in order to comprehensively address GBVAW. Perhaps, by presenting a comparison between similar cases in a situation of emergency, this article could serve this aim.
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Cultura Latinoamericana, 2019
This research article summarizes the chronogram of United Nations documents issued since 1993 to ... more This research article summarizes the chronogram of United Nations documents issued since 1993 to combat gender-based violence against women, analyzing the case of two countries in particular, Mexico and Italy, in a comparative qualitative methodology. We examine the sequence of legal acts approved in each country, the semantics of laws, their theoretical foundations and the transition from violence from a private act to a public crime. The final objective of the article is to show the similarities and differences between both countries since, even though globally there has emerged an extremely strong frame of reference that urges the understanding and treatment of violence against women with a common conceptual perspective, local differences and nationals exist and this accounts for how a country reacts and adapts to international pressure.
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AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021
Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well as physical (offline) spaces in... more Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well as physical (offline) spaces in novel ways, opening up new environments of affordances. In everyday life these mobile online and offline spaces are increasingly interdependent and interwoven in manifold ways. Practices, experiences, meanings and expectations are negotiated across these spaces, while at the same time they are bound by the respective logics and limitations, leading to new interrelations and contradictions. The mobile, interlocking but non-converging nature of these spaces involves issues of access and power in struggles over in(ter)dependencies and leads to significant method(odolog)ical, practical and ethical challenges for researchers, to which the current COVID-19 pandemic only adds complexity. Researchers are confronted with questions such as: What are appropriate designs to study mobile online and offline spaces and their intersections? Do interdependent spaces call for likewise interdependent meth...
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Books by Stellamarina Donato
Donato, S. (2024). Agency e diritti delle donne tra Europa mediterranea e Nord Africa. Paolo Loffredo Editore, 2024
Perché dovremmo abbandonare il discorso sull'empowerment? Cosa significa davvero l'agency delle d... more Perché dovremmo abbandonare il discorso sull'empowerment? Cosa significa davvero l'agency delle donne?
Nel mio libro: “Agency e Diritti delle Donne tra Europa Mediterranea e Nord Africa” approfondisco le esperienze di state feminism, movimenti e agency delle donne nella regione EU-MENA. Esploro inoltre l'importanza di considerare il legame tra genere e migrazioni.
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Others instead focus on the degrees and typologies of violence and question the role of modernity in the execution of acts of violence by individuals, who are often both victims and perpetrators. In this article, we draw upon a theoretical reflection concerning the role of violence as a sociological concept. We highlight the transformations it has undergone considering the
technological developments and its presence in online spaces. The aim is to stress the mutual shaping relationship between the online and offline realms regarding violence against women (although the subject could also involve other communities like the LGBTQI+, migrants, people with disabilities, etc.). Via our theoretical point of reference and examples, we highlight how the perception of the seriousness of violence is nuanced depending on the environment in which it occurs. Similarly, we argue that its acceptability or condemnation becomes the result of culturally metabolised principles and rules that characterise certain societies.
El artículo utiliza un análisis de contenido cualitativo para comprender cuáles fueron los términos y enfoques teóricos implícitos y explícitos que marcaron la evolución de la libertad y la justicia social como con-stituyentes de los derechos humanos y de las mujeres a vivir una vida sin violencia.
El texto quiere poner de relieve cómo las palabras configuran gran par-te de nuestra realidad social y cambian la forma de enfocar el mundo contemporáneo y construir nuestros futuros próximos, y no sólo la memoria de los futuros deseados (Jedlowski, 2017).
employs a multi-methods research that combines discourse analysis, foreign policy analysis, and historical political reconstruction of Kirchnerism.
Theoretically, we refer to populism as an “Ideational Approach” and we
consider Destradi and Plegaman’s thematic lines in order to investigate
populism in world politics. Throughout the paper, we argue that left-wing
populist foreign policy does not discriminate against international cooperation and globalization per se but in a Manichean vision of the world, it
criticizes western rich countries, and proposes the creation of new regional alliances.
Reviews / Short Communications / Papers by Stellamarina Donato
Books by Stellamarina Donato
Nel mio libro: “Agency e Diritti delle Donne tra Europa Mediterranea e Nord Africa” approfondisco le esperienze di state feminism, movimenti e agency delle donne nella regione EU-MENA. Esploro inoltre l'importanza di considerare il legame tra genere e migrazioni.
Others instead focus on the degrees and typologies of violence and question the role of modernity in the execution of acts of violence by individuals, who are often both victims and perpetrators. In this article, we draw upon a theoretical reflection concerning the role of violence as a sociological concept. We highlight the transformations it has undergone considering the
technological developments and its presence in online spaces. The aim is to stress the mutual shaping relationship between the online and offline realms regarding violence against women (although the subject could also involve other communities like the LGBTQI+, migrants, people with disabilities, etc.). Via our theoretical point of reference and examples, we highlight how the perception of the seriousness of violence is nuanced depending on the environment in which it occurs. Similarly, we argue that its acceptability or condemnation becomes the result of culturally metabolised principles and rules that characterise certain societies.
El artículo utiliza un análisis de contenido cualitativo para comprender cuáles fueron los términos y enfoques teóricos implícitos y explícitos que marcaron la evolución de la libertad y la justicia social como con-stituyentes de los derechos humanos y de las mujeres a vivir una vida sin violencia.
El texto quiere poner de relieve cómo las palabras configuran gran par-te de nuestra realidad social y cambian la forma de enfocar el mundo contemporáneo y construir nuestros futuros próximos, y no sólo la memoria de los futuros deseados (Jedlowski, 2017).
employs a multi-methods research that combines discourse analysis, foreign policy analysis, and historical political reconstruction of Kirchnerism.
Theoretically, we refer to populism as an “Ideational Approach” and we
consider Destradi and Plegaman’s thematic lines in order to investigate
populism in world politics. Throughout the paper, we argue that left-wing
populist foreign policy does not discriminate against international cooperation and globalization per se but in a Manichean vision of the world, it
criticizes western rich countries, and proposes the creation of new regional alliances.
Nel mio libro: “Agency e Diritti delle Donne tra Europa Mediterranea e Nord Africa” approfondisco le esperienze di state feminism, movimenti e agency delle donne nella regione EU-MENA. Esploro inoltre l'importanza di considerare il legame tra genere e migrazioni.