Lea Bonasera

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Lea Bonasera
DPhil Candidate

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Thesis Title: Nonviolent resistance failure: why climate campaigns do not achieve their stated outcomes

Supervisors: Professor Stephen Fisher and Dr Mathis Ebbinghaus

I am a DPhil in Sociology student at Kellogg College researching internal factors explaining why nonviolent climate campaigns do not achieve their stated objectives. For this, I analyse various factors reaching from resources, organisational structures, support bases to tactics and strategies. I conduct ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and text analysis. 

I also lead Oxford's discussion group on social movements that bridges different departments and brings together faculty and students to advance protest studies.  

I am the co-founder of the climate group Letzte Generation and active in the environmental movement.

Research Interests: Civil resistance, social movements, protest, non-violence political sociology, environmental movements, climate, qualitative methods, participatory action research, decolonising methods, ethnography

Previous Education: BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam University College; MPhil International Relations, University of Oxford