Francesco Zirpoli and Leonard Mazzone will be the speakers of the talk “Reindustrialization from below in the automotive sector? The case of the former-GKN plant in Florence”, that will take place on the 18th of May at 2.00 pm CET in Polo Piagge (University of Pisa), in Room Q1.
The talk will be moderated by Prof. Elisa Giuliani and Dr. Antonella Angelini.
Francesco Zirpoli is professor at the Department of Management, coordinator of the PhD in Management, scientific director of CAMI – Center for Automotive and Mobility Innovation and Director of the Master in Mobility Innovation and Management at Ca’ Foscari University. Francesco is also co-organizer of the summer program “Organizing for Sustainable Futures: Micro and Macro-institutional Conditions of Transformation” held at VIU, research associate of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation, Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA and of Istituto di Ricerche sulle Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo (IRISS), Italian National Research Council (CNR).
Leonard Mazzone is Post-Doc Research Fellow at the University of Florence. His research interests span various topics in critical social and political theory. He has authored several publications, including Il principio possibilità. Masse, potere e metamorfosi nell’opera di Elias Canetti, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2017; Ipocrisia. Storia e critica del più socievole dei vizi, Orthotes 2020; Le imprese recuperate in Italia. Da un lavoro di inchiesta del Collettivo di Ricerca Sociale (with. R. Calcagno), Castelvecchi 2023.
More info on the GKN case at these links:
Emanuele Leonardi & Mimmo Perrotta interview Dario Salvetti — PPPR (projectpppr.org);
https://jacobin.com/2022/08/gkn-driveline-florence-factory-collective-strike
The event is open and free for all interested participants, who are welcome to join in person or by connecting online.
This event will be held in Italian.
More info on the event (in Italian) here.
