(Un)Silencing Academia in Times of Epistemic Conflicts: Navigating Online Violence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032894201)

Alberta Giorgi is Associate Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes at the University of Bergamo and Associate Researcher of the Center for Social Studies (CES, Coimbra). Her work explores discursive boundaries and classifications, particularly at the intersection of politics, gender, religion, and science. She has recently co-edited with Hande Eslen-Ziya, Populism and Science in Europe (2022), and with J. Garraio and T. Toldy Religion, Gender and Populism in the Mediterranean (Routledge, 2023).

Hande Eslen-Ziya is Professor of Sociology at the University of Stavanger and Honorary Research Associate at the Gender Justice, Health and Human Development, Durban University of Technology. Her research focuses on gender and politics, digital activism, anti-gender movements, and online violence targeting academics. She has published widely on masculinities, feminist activism, and digital cultures, including the co-edited volumes The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication (2019) and Politics and Gender Identity in Turkey: Centralised Islam for Socio-Economic Control (Routledge, 2018).