This volume builds upon social movement studies in the attempt to illuminate the dynamics of these protests in the various steps of their emergency, growth and decline.

Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Political Science, Founding Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). Among the main topics of her research are social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, the police, and protest policing. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology; in 2021, she received the Research Awards of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in recognition of her lifetime's research activities. In 2022, she has been nominated International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Della Porta is Honorary Doctor of the universities of Lausanne, Bucharest, Goteborg, Jyvaskyla, Cyprus, and the University of Peloponnese.

• 1: Regressive Movements in Times of Emergency: An introduction


• 2: Anti-vax protests: singling out waves within cycles


• 3: Organizing the anti-vax protests: a disembedded crowdsourced strategy


• 4: Framing the Anti-vax Protests: Conspiracy Beliefs in Action


• 5: Anti-vax protests and social movement studies: some conclusions


• Bibliography


• Appendix