Gilda ZAZZARA

Gilda Zazzara is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She has worked on the history of historiography, left-wing intellectuals, labour history and the workers' movement in republican Italy. She has carried out research on the working-class cultures of Venice/Porto Marghera and the Veneto region, making extensive use of oral sources, memoirs and autobiographical writings. For some years now, she has been interested in the processes of deindustrialisation, with a particular focus on the political, social and environmental impacts. She is co-investigator of the international project DePOT (www.deindustrialization.org). Some materials on the research on the deindustrialisation of Porto Marghera are available here and here. More recently, she has begun to investigate the conflicts between work and the environment, the problems of the 'just transition' and the experiences of labour environmentalism, teaching Environmental History of Work in the master's degree course in Environmental Humanities.

She was visiting scholar at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent (2018) and at Birkbeck University London (2024). She is vice-president of the Venetian Institute for the History of Resistance and Contemporary Society (Iveser) and coordinator of the history journal "Venetica". Among her latest publications: Renzo e i suoi compagni. Una microstoria sindacale del Veneto (Donzelli, Roma 2022, with Alessandro Casellato), Fondato sul lavoro. Scritti per Stefano Musso (Accademia University Press, Torino 2022, ed. by, with Fabrizio Loreto) and Cesco Chinello, Cronache veneziane sulla Bolognina (1988-1993). Un diario politico-sentimentale, (Iveser-Cierre, Venezia-Verona 2023, ed. by). In 2024 she produced with Alessandro Casellato the podcast Girolamo Li Causi: il fantasma di una voce (available here).