Consortium meeting of the ECSEuro research project in Tuscany

Last week (May 21-23), in Tuscany, our researchers participated in the consortium meeting of the ECSEuro research project, which examines solidarities, care and community practices enacted by social movements in European cities. In the studious and ascetic setting of the Renaissance palace built by Cardinal Silvio Passerini (1469-1529), we were received by researchers from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) who welcomed us to the hills of the Val di Chiana valley. In a series of project meetings between the partners, we discussed the findings and conclusions of the ethnographic studies we had carried out in various European cities. We reflected on the gentrification of urban environments and the replacement of disappearing public infrastructures, while also exploring some translocal potentials of solidarities, the establishment of alternative cooking practises and the emerging social spaces of coexistence and care. We have detailed the plans for the dissemination of our research findings that will follow in the second half of this year: from edited volumes, journal articles, conferences to organised labs with social movement activists. We will report on all publications here on our ECS project website: https://europefrombelow.net/.