Andrea Zisa is a PhD researcher on the MORALITES Project. His previous fieldworks focused on entrepreneurial political participation in illiberal regimes and on diasporic transnational spaces for political rights struggles. His interests include civil society, power coalitions, and the blurred boundary between democracy and authoritarianism. In the MORALITES Project, he will critically assess the assumption that civil society inherently promotes democracy, focusing on the integration of civil society elites with economic and political elites in Italy, engaging with Bourdeausian and Gramscian theories.
