Ilaria Favretto
Institutional position and affiliation: PROFESSOR, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, LONDRA
E-mail address:Ilaria.favretto@Kingston.ac.uk
Short CV
2021- Affiliate Professor, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London
2021-2022 Senior Visiting Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), London.
2005-2021 Professor of Contemporary European History, Kingston University, London
2001- 2005 Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London
1999- 2001: Post-doctoral research fellow in History of International Relations, University of Milan (Italy)
1998-1999: British Council Fellow in Modern Italian Studies, St Antony’s College (Univ. of Oxford)
1998 PhD in History, Queen Mary College (University of London).
1994 BA in Modern History, University of Milan 110/110, cum laude
Current and past research interests and experiences
I am a cultural and intellectual historian of modern and contemporary Europe with three main areas of expertise: protest and social movements; memory and identity; and left-wing parties’ political ideas, cultures and practices in the post-1945 period. My most recent work focuses on the cultural history of protest and collective action. I am interested in forms and cultures of protest, their circulation and re-adaptation to different needs and contexts throughout time and across different movements. While my main focus has been on Italy and Britain, I have consistently explored connections between these and other countries and I have sought to place my research in a broader comparative context.
I have just completed a monograph titled Cultures of protest and Industrial Conflict in Italy since 1945 due to be published Oxford University Press in July 2025. The book draws on anthropology, social movement studies, labour and cultural history and rethinks the history of factory protest in twentieth-century Italy.
Main publications
2017 co-edited with Xabier Itcaina, Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Western European History (Basingstoke: Palgrave - Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements).
2003 The Long Search for a ‘Third Way’: the British Labour Party and the Italian Left since 1945 (Basingtoke: Palgrave Macmillan-St Antony’s series).
2003 Alle radici della svolta autonomista. PSI e Labour Party, due vicende parallele (1956-1970) (Rome: Carocci)
Current and forthcoming researches
2025 (forthcoming) Cultures of Protest and Industrial Conflict in post-1945 Italy (Oxford University Press).
Latest publications on Labour History (max 3)
2024 co-edited with Maud Brack and Nico Pizzolato, Gendering Work in 20th c. Italy, special issue of Modern Italy (vol 29, special issue 2, May 2024)
2019 ‘Toilets and Resistance in Italian Factories in the 1950s’, Labor History, vol 60, Issue no. 6, pp. 646-665.
2015 ‘Rough music and factory protest in post-1945 Italy’, Past and Present, vol 228, no. 1, August 2015, pp. 207-247.