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Books

D. Grasso, La città e il fantasma. Dal muro di Berlino ai nuovi muri (The City and the Ghost. From the Berlin Wall to the New Walls), Book, Rome, Castelvecchi, 2019. ISBN: 9788832827774

D. Grasso, Il fiore del deserto. La rivoluzione delle donne e delle comuni tra l'Iraq e la Siria del nord (The Flower of the Desert. The Revolution of Women and Communes in Iraq and northern Syria), Book, Milan, AgenziaX, 2018.  ISBN-13:  9788898922529; ISBN-10: 8898922523

Translations:

D. Grasso, Kulîlka biyabanê. Şoreşa jinê û komînan di navbera Iraqê û bakurê Sûrîyayê da (The Flower of the Desert. The revolution of women and communes in Iraq and northern Syria), Wergera ji zimanê erebî (Translated from Arabic to Kurmancî) by Dilyar Hoşê, Naqesh Publishing, Qamishlo, Syria, 2023

D. Grasso, زهرة الصحراء : ثورة النساء والكومونات بين العراق وشمال سوريا (The Flower of the Desert. The revolution of women and communes in Iraq and northern Syria), translated from Italian to Arabic by Amani Fawzi Habshi, Ahmed Ismail, Ronak Haji and Ismail Ismail, Shiler Publishing, Al-Qamishli, Syria, 2022

Edited books

Omaggio al Rojava. Il fronte siriano, la rivoluzione confederale e la lotta contro il jihadismo (Homage to Rojava. The Syrian Front, the Confederal Revolution and the Fight Against Jihadism), Edited volume, Rome, Redstarpress, 2019. ISBN: 9788867182381

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Under peer-review:

D. Grasso, Nuances of Authority. The Rojava militants, Abdullah Öcalan and Murray Bookchin, in Grasso, D., Novellis, A., Eds, Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Dynamics, Institution building and theoretical perspectives, Partecipazione e Conflitto, 17(3bis), 2025

Published:

D. Grasso, Ethnic or political cleansing? Identity, cultural heritage and demographic engineering in the Turkish-occupied territories of northern Syria, R. Di Peri, C. Maritato, (eds), A Matter of Identity? State legitimacy between space control and adhocratic governance, De Europa. European and Global Studies Journal, 7/1, 2024, 61-83. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13135/2611-853X/10572; ISSN: 2611-853X

D. Padovan, O. Arrobbio, D. Grasso, A., Sciullo, A. Taffuri, J. Bindi, F. Bartolomei, L. Mastrosimone, Unveiling the social transformative potential of Collective Action in Energy Transition: from energy communities towards a communalism of energy, Culture della Sostenibilità, 33, 2024, 153-157. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7402/CDS.33.010; ISSN 1972-5817 (print); 1972-2511 (online)

A. Taffuri, D. Padovan, O. Arrobbio, A. Sciullo, D. Grasso, A. Grignani, Energy commoning. The politicization of energy collective action in Southern Europe, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 65(2), 2024, 315-342. DOI: 10.1423/114122; ISBN: 978-88-15-42525-6

D. Grasso, C. Marciano, A. Sciullo, Sulla resilienza. Note per una sociologia dei sistemi socio-ecologici (On Resilience. Notes for a Sociology of Socio-Ecological Systems), in Resilienza: dilemmi e controversie attorno a un concetto socio-ecologico (Resilience: dilemmas and controversies around a socio-ecological concept), A. Alietti, D. Padovan (eds), Studi di Sociologia, LXII, 1, 2024, 53-65. DOI: 10.26350/000309_000187

D. Grasso, Heritage, Community and Future Generations. The Transgenerational Quest for Justice, Rivista di Estetica, 84, 3, 2023, 103-121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.9675;  ISBN 9791259932792

D. Grasso, Artefatti, ostensione e realtà istituzionale. Le Unità Anti-Terrore nella guerra siriana (Artifacts, Ostension and Institutional reality. The Anti-Terror Units in the Syrian War), Giornale critico di storia delle idee, 2, 2018, 121-138. ISBN: 9788857558097

D. Grasso, Incarnazioni dell’intangibile. Idealità e scrittura tra memoria e progettazione (Incarnations of the Intangible. Ideality and Writing between Memory and Project), Rivista di estetica, 2, 2012, 101-113. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.1472; ISBN-10. 8878851612; ISBN-13. 978-8878851610

D. Grasso, Tutela, stile, autografia. Ontologia dei beni culturali e architettura (Style, Autography, Preservation. Ontology of the Cultural Heritage and Architecture), in Rivista di estetica, 1, 2012, 333-354. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.1725; ISBN-10. 8878851493; ISBN-13. 978-8878851498

D. Grasso, Ontologia dei beni culturali (Ontology of Cultural Heritage), Aphex. Rivista on line di filosofia, 4, 2011, 51-79. ISSN: 2036-9972

D. Grasso, Filosofi in archivio. Appunti di lavoro (Philosophers in the Archive. Work Notes), Historia Magistra. Rivista di Storia Critica, 6, 2011, 100-105. DOI: 10.3280/HM2011-006011

D. Grasso, Quale verità per la storia? Conoscenza, prassi linguistica e contesti sociali (What Truth for History? Knowledge, Linguistic Praxis and Social Contexts), Historia Magistra. Rivista di Storia Critica, 1, 2009, 109-121. ISSN 2036-4040

D. Grasso, Memoria e conservazione. La Rückfrage delle istituzioni (Memory and Preservation. The Rückfrage of Institutions), Rivista di Estetica, 3, 2007, 149-166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.2367

Book chapters

Forthcoming:

D. Grasso, The ecological theory of the confederal movement in Syria: logic, tracks and implications, in Jorgenden, J., Turk, N., The Emergence of a Decolonial Ecology in Kurdistan? From Resistance to Construction: Perspectives, Possibilities and Challenges. Under review by AK Press

Published:

D. Grasso, La rivoluzione del Rojava e il paradigma della modernità democratica (The Rojava Revolution and the Paradigm of Democratic Modernity), in L’altra politica. La partecipazione non convenzionale nei vecchi e nuovi conflitti sociopolitici, a cura di L. Alteri, S. Busso, G. Piazza e L. Raffini, Milano, McGraw-Hill, 2025

D. Padovan, D. Grasso, Capitalismo fossile, militarismo e guerra. Conflitti della deep transition (Fossil Capital, Militarism and War. Conflicts in the Deep Transition), in Energia e mutamento sociale, a c. Di M. Maretti, Milan, Franco Angeli, 2024, 30-51. ISBN: 9788835165262

D. Grasso, Gender Relationships and Legal Change in Syria. The Family Law Reforms of the Rojava Revolution, in M. D’Amico, T. Groppi, C. Nardocci (eds), The Role of Women and Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Peace Processes, Milan, Franco Angeli, 2024, 163-186. ISBN 9788835158769

L. Candidi, D. Grasso, Erased, Emerging, Engraved. Nazi architecture, heritage and public memory, in The Afterlife of Fascist-Era Architecture, Monuments and Works of Art in Italy, ed. by C. Belmonte, Milano, Silvana Editoriale, 2023, 85-100. ISBN 9788836654482

D. Grasso, Autorité/avant-garde/autogestion: une tension incomprise dans la révolution confederale (Authority/avant-garde/self-governance: a misunderstood tension in the confederal revolution), in Crétois, Pierre, Jourdain, Édouard, “La démocratie sous les bombes. Syrie-Le Rojava entre idéalisation et répression”, Bordeaux, Le Bord de l'Eau, 2022, 45-75. ISBN: 9782356878823

D. Grasso, Agamben, o coronavírus e o estado de exceção (Agamben, the Coronavirus and the state of exception), in Vozes do Fronte. Considorações sobra lo irromper do Covid-19 na Itália (Voices from the Frontline. Considerations on the Outbreak of Covid-19 in Italy), with Donatella Di Cesare, Giorgio Agamben, Jennifer Barbosa, Massimo Cacciari, Raffaele Alberto Ventura, Vinícius Nicastro Honesko, Venezia, Editora Âyiné, 2020, p. 17-25

D. Grasso, Nuovi colori del Medio oriente (New Colors of the Middle East), in E. Battaglia, I nuovi volti del Mediterraneo. Dalle guerre altrui in terra di nessuno alla resistenza del popolo curdo (New faces of the Mediterranean. From the ‘War of Others’ in a No Man’s Land to the Kurdish Resistance), Edizioni erranti, Cosenza, 2016, 219-225. ISBN-10, 8895073495; ISBN-13, 978-8895073491

M. Pellegrino, D. Grasso, Travestimento della bellezza/Disguise of beauty, in R. Amirante, C. Piscopo, P. Scala (eds), La bellezza per  il rospo, Clean, Napoli, 2014, 101-109. ISBN 978-88-8497-260-6; hal-01205809

Articles in non-peer-reviewed journals

D. Padovan, A. Taffuri, D. Grasso, A. Sciullo, Marx, decrescita e comunismo ecologico: dalla comunità-capitale alla comunità-natura (Marx, degrowth and ecological communism: from community-capital to community-nature), Quaderni della decrescita, 1, 3, 2024, 154-176. ISSN: 3034-9966

D. Grasso, Per un concetto democratico di nazione (For a Democratic Concept of Nation), Micromega, 6, 2023, 82-97. ISSN 2499-0884

D. Grasso, The People’s Communes in Rojava and North-Eastern Syria. Characters, Evolution and Contradictions of an Institution of Self-Government, Études Kurdes, 15, 2022, 109-143

D. Grasso, Gender Equality or Legal Pluralism? An Ostensible Puzzle in Syrian Rojava’s Legal System, Syrian Studies Association Bulletin, 2, 2021, 1-5

D. Grasso, La rivoluzione come scienza-donna: una fragile eccezione nel deserto delle alternative (Revolution as Woman-Science: a Fragile Exception in a Desert of Alternatives), Spazio filosofico, 4, 2019, 205-215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2038-6788/24

Research Reports

Forthcoming:

D. Grasso, The PYD’s idea of Șoreş in Syria: multi-level social change based on revolutionary self-critique, Daftar LAFITA, ed. by E. Aubin-Boltanski, B. James, IRN Project “The social and political life of words in the contest of revolution and war”, Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Published:

W. Kowalik, W. Hubert, L. Gawlik, M. Pepłowska, D. Kryzia, A. Komorowska, M. Braito, M. Klingler, J. Plöchl, P. Scherhaufer, N. Galvany, F. Giardina, P. Rivera, M. Käis, M. Kojo, M. Frolova, L. Giorgetti, D. Grasso, A. Kährik, D. Narrusson, B. Plüschke-Altof, H.T. Plüschke-Altof, A. Annist, L. Pungas, Context and Stakeholders Analysis for Historic Examples of Political Participation, European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme "Pathways for Co-creation between Local Authorities and Collective Actions for a Sustainable Transition”, Portal of the European Commission, novembre 2024

D. Grasso, L. Fockaert, P. Kero, F. Jouzi, L. Lakanen, C. Peveling, G. Pomatto, A. Sciullo, C. Bargero, P.E. Sørås, L. Zwart, Social side of policy impact, European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme “Providing operational economic appraisal methods and practices for decision-making on climate and environmental policies”, Portal of the European Commission, June 2023

D. Grasso, S. Anougmar, C. Bargero, S.J. Husøy, P. Kero, F. Jouzi, L. Lakanen, K. Michiel, P. Pisciella, A. Sciullo, P.E. Sørås, P. Van Der Sluys, S. Van Schoubroeck, M. Verdonk, L. Zwart, Building a Theory of Change to identify evaluation needs, European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme “Providing operational economic appraisal methods and practices for decision-making on climate and environmental policies”, Portal of the European Commission, February 2023

 

 

 

2025, International University College of Turin Pre-Doctoral School in Comparative Law, Economic and Finance Second Term Course: Political Theory of Insurrection and War Module: The theory of Democratic modernity Timeframe: April-May 2025 Description: Introduction to the political theory developed by Abdullah Öcalan and the Jineolojî Committees, with particular emphasis on the concepts of capitalist modernity, democratic modernity and line of resistance. Placement of the theory in its socio-political context and discussion of its theoretical sources. Pre-Doctoral School in Comparative Law, Economic and Finance First Term Course: Political Sociology of Insurrection and War Module: The political organisations of the Syrian transition Timeframe: March 2025 Description: Multi-level perspective of the process that led from the 2011 uprising to war, and the creation of de facto authorities on Syrian territory. Socio-historical analysis of the main Syrian parties and movements involved in the 2024 uprising and in the 2024-2025 political transition. 2024, University of Milano Bicocca Scuola di perfezionamento in Teoria critica della società Module: Ecologia e democrazia tra Kurdistan e Europa (Ecology and Democracy between Europe and Kurdistan) Timeframe: December 2024 Description: Processual-relational thinking applied to a taxonomy of the main Syrian political actors involved in the 2024 insurrection and political transition. Sociological and historical background of the 2024 events. Introduction to the ‘Paradigm of Democratic Modernity’ proposed by the Autonomous Democratic Administration of the Northeast and its theoretical sources. 2024, International University College of Turin Pre-Doctoral School in Comparative Law, Economic and Finance Course: Law and Ethics in Time of War Module: A New Concept of Democratic Modernity: History, development and tentative implementation Description: Reconstruction of the history and context in which the ‘Paradigm of democratic modernity’ was conceived and applied. Introduction to its conceptual framework and its debts to authors such as André Gunder Frank, Barry K. Gills and Vere Gordon Childe. Timeframe: January 2024 2023, University of Milano Bicocca Scuola di perfezionamento in Teoria critica della società Module: Ecologia e democrazia tra Kurdistan e Europa (Ecology and Democracy between Europe and Kurdistan) Timeframe: December 2023 Description: Analysis of the main innovations of the ‘Paradigm of democratic modernity’ with respect to Karl Marx’s outline of the path for revolutionary transition. Comparison of the confederal theory of ‘regimes of truth’ with Max Weber’s taxonomy of political authority’s legitimation sources. 2023, International University College of Turin Pre-Doctoral School in Comparative Law, Economic and Finance Second Term Course: Law and Ethics in Time of War II Module I: Philosophy, Violence and Authority Description: Comparative analysis of the theories of violence and power proposed by H. Arendt, M. Foucault and A. Öcalan in light of the Syrian events of the years 2011-2023. Module II: Ethics and the Deconstruction of Law Description: Analysis of Jacques Derrida’s idea of the deconstruction of law. Critical assessment of its possible application to the political and legal dynamics of the Syrian scenario. Timeframe: April-June 2023 Pre-Doctoral School in Comparative Law, Economic and Finance First Term Course: Law and Ethics in Time of War I Module I: The Revolution and Its Specters Description: Introduction to the Syrian ‘subjects’ that emerged during the 2011 uprising. Critical test of the applicability of concepts traceable in the work of Karl Marx (ghost, movement) and Max Weber (tradition, rationality, charisma) to the analysis of Syrian events. Module II: Social Acts and Legal Systems Description: Introduction to the de facto Syrian institutions that emerged during the war. Analysis of their emergence in the Syrian legal framework through a general introduction to speech acts theories stemming from the philosophy of language. Timeframe: January-March 2023 2022, International University College of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto Ll.m. in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance Second Term Course: Political Philosophy and the Deconstruction of Law Module I: Authority and power in relation to violence Description: Comparative analysis of the concept of authority in A. Öcalan, H. Arendt and M. Foucault. Module II: Criteria of normative legitimation and deconstruction Description: Comparative analysis of the concept of norm in L. Wittgenstein and J. Derrida and comparative description of the de facto governments that emerged in Syria, with a focus on their respective ideas of legal source. Ll.m. in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance First Term Course: Institutions and Politics in Time of Conflict Module I: Syria: A Multi-faceted Civil War Description: Analysis of the main movements and groups that emerged during the Syrian uprising of 2011. Module II: Diversity of de facto legal systems Description: Analysis of the de facto governments that emerged in Syria during the war and introduction to their legal and constitutional systems. 2021, International University College of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto Ll.m. in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance First Term Course: Institutions and Politics in Time of Conflict Title: Contexts, Violence and Power: the Syrian Civil War Description: Introduction to the main movements, parties and de facto institutions in the Syrian scenario. Critical testing of different theories of power and the norm (M. Weber, M. Foucault, H. Arendt, A. Öcalan, L. Wittgenstein, J. Derrida) by tentatively applying them to understand the Syrian context.

Temi di ricerca

Fellowships:

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, General Sociology

Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin

Timeframe: July 2024 - June 2026

Project: Pathways for Co-creation between Local Authorities and Collective Actions for a Sustainable Transition (CO-SUSTAIN)

Principal Investigator: Dario Padovan (Università di Torino)

Operational Role: Team Member UNITO, responsible for daily Lab activities

Involvement in Work Packages (daily lab, co-coordination)

Work Package 1: Designing the Research and Assessment Methods (Team coordination of the WP)

Task 1.1: Development of the research methodology

Task 1.2: Development of the research tools and internal training

Task 1.3: Context and stakeholder analysis for the historic examples

Task 1.4: Development of the assessment framework for the case studies

Work Package 2: Understanding the triggers, management, and impacts of latent and manifest political participation through historic examples

Task 2.1: Conducting a literature review on the triggers and management of latent and manifest forms of political participation

Task 2.2: Studying historic examples of political participation linked to societal and environmental imperatives (Subtask 2.2.1 Textual analysis; Subtask 2.2.2 Integrating stakeholder perspectives; Subtask 2.2.3 System mapping)

Task 2.3: Delivering best (and worst) practices to support and manage latent and manifest forms of political participation

Task 2.4: Structuring deliberation panels for latent and manifest forms of political participation

Direct responsibility for Deliverable Coordination:

D1.1 CO-SUSTAIN Research Guide. Description: A guide to analyse latent and manifest political participation and understand its origins, management and impact, including the steps, methods, tools, and advice

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, General Sociology

Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin

Timeframe: January 2023 - December 2023

Project: Providing Operational Economic Appraisal Methods and Practices for Informed Decision-Making on Climate and Environmental Policies (PATTERN)

European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme 101056734

Length: July 2022 - July 2025

Principal Investigator: Sonia Quiroga Gomez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Academic Consortium Partners: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Turin, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, University of Antwerp, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

Other Partners: Euroquality, ISMERI Europa, Vlaamse Landmaatschappij, Netherlands Enterprise Agency, IRES Piemonte, Trøndelag County Authority, City of Lappeenranta

Operational Role: Team Member UNITO, responsible for daily Lab activities

Involvement in Work Packages (daily lab, co-coordination)

Work Package 2: Creation of the interdisciplinary and participatory approach

Task 2.1: Stakeholder analysis and engagement

Task 2.2: Building a Theory of Change to identify evaluation needs

Task 2.3: Social side of policy impact

Direct responsibility for Deliverable Coordination:

D2.2 Theory of Change for the project’s case studies. Description: ToCs development to clarify expected changes and indicators for the environmental policy evaluations to be operationalised

D2.3 Assessment of Social Impact in policy evaluation. Description: Design of the social Impact Assessment framework used in the project to ensure the operationality of tools and guidelines

 

Acknowledgments:

Seal of Excellence – Horizon Europe

Call: Horizon-MSCA-2023-PF-01

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023

Topic: Horizon-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01

Type of Action: Horizon-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF

(Horizon TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships)

Proposal number: 101149517

Proposal acronym: BorDeMEr

Proposal Title: Building a New Theory of Cross-Border Democracy to Cope with Emerging Challenges in Europe and Beyond

Type of Model Grant Agreement: Horizon Unit Grant

Secured funding:

Pathways for Co-creation between Local Authorities and Collective Actions for a Sustainable Transition (CO-SUSTAIN)

European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme 101132467

Role: Co-writer and co-signatory of the Project

European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme 101132467

Length: January 2024 - December 2026

Call Title: The climate imperative and its impact on democratic governance

Funding scheme: Research and Innovation Actions

Work Programme Topic: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society

Consortium: University of Turin, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Universidad de Grenada, Tartu Ulikool, Lappeenrannan-Lahden teknillinen yliopisto, Instytut Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi i Energią PAN, Associació Ecoserveis, Euroquality

Progetti di ricerca

• Providing operational economic appraisal methods and practices for informed decision-making in climate and environmental policieS

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