Social Movements and Social Ddisobedience at the time of the Covid-19 Crisis: the Case of the Italian University

The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the analysis of riots and social movements against the introduction of the “green pass” in Italy. After having discussed social disobedience in theoretical terms and defined it as a complex socio-political practice at the junction between subjectivation and radicalization, the chapter focuses on the frame alignment process preparing social disobedience against the green pass at the symbolic and political-cultural level. Our attention is on the case of the Italian University. The main conclusion of our work is that the reference to the freedom of the individual against government intrusiveness is preeminent. Such an idea seems to direct the riots against the green pass towards post-social movements as well as a libertarian discourse. In other words, these orientations do not break with the contemporary culture of individualism or the individualization process and late modernity, coextensive with neo-liberal globalisation, but they radicalizse them.