Il diritto negato di dire no. La relazione tra contesto politico e protesta nei conflitti ambientali locali: i casi No Tap e No Snam

By qualitatively comparing the No Tap and No Snam protest campaigns, the paper focuses on the interaction between political context and protest in italian local environmental conflicts. The research shows a dramatic degrade in the dialectic between institution and citizens and a pivotal conflict around the same concept of democracy that reveal, at the core, a deep crisis of our society as pointed out by these attempts of people to participate to the public decisions.