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Gender-based violence against women (GBVAW) is a deep-rooted social phenomenon that is at its critical moment since ever, and must be addressed globally. This article focuses on the issue of gender-based violence against women during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March-October 2020) and compares the cases of Italy and Spain. The research adopts a methodology of paralleling similar cases based on a careful reconstruction of events and an assessment of the level of government responsiveness to the GBVAW. Indeed, between March and October 2020, the differences between the two Mediterranean countries have been quite evident. The Spanish government presented practical measures and guidelines to address GBVAW, whereas the Italian government, as it often happens, decided to quietly inform instead of presenting specific measures to contrast GBVAW. ; La violencia de género contra las mujeres (GBVAW) es un problema social muy arraigado en las sociedades que se encuentra desde siempre en un momento crítico y que hay que abordar a nivel global. Este artículo se ocupa de la GBVAW durante los meses de marzo-octubre 2020 y compara los casos de Italia y España. La investigación adopta una metodología de casos similares basada en una cuidadosa reconstrucción de los acontecimientos y una evaluación del nivel de respuesta de los gobiernos a la GBVAW. De hecho, mientras el COVID-19 se extendía, las diferencias entre los dos países mediterráneos en el grado de «reacción» (responsiveness) han sido bastante evidentes. El Gobierno español fue activo en la presentación de medidas prácticas y directrices para hacer frente a la GBVAW. En cambio, el Gobierno italiano decidió informar en voz baja en lugar de actuar y presentar medidas específicas.

This article addresses the issue of populist foreign policy in Argentina and employs a multi-methods research that combines discourse analysis, foreign policy analysis, and historical political reconstruction of Kirchnerism. Theoretically, we refer to populism as an "Ideational Approach" and we consider Destradi and Plegaman's thematic lines in order to investigate populism in world politics. Throughout the paper, we argue that left-wing populist foreign policy does not discriminate against international cooperation and globalization per se but in a Manichean vision of the world, it criticizes western rich countries, and proposes the creation of new regional alliances.

The FridaysForFuture movement (FFF), launched by Greta Thumberg's school strikes in 2018, has led a new wave of climate activism worldwide. Young people are at the forefront, with social media serving both as mobilizing tools and expressive spaces. Drawing upon literature on youth and digital activism with a generational, situated approach, we account for how both the climate struggle and social media are appropriated by FFF-activists as part of their own youth grassroots politics. Moreover, we explore the activities they mix and the strategies they adopt when moving across online and offline environments. From July 2020 to January 2021, we carried out 6 months of ethnographic work with(in) the FFF-Rome group by blending participant observation of assemblies and protests with digital ethnography on the homonym WhatsApp group. Results' thematic analysis shows that FFF-activists believe climate activism to be their own fight and social media their own battlefield. A generational understanding of digital climate activism emerges at the intersection of the appropriation of the dispute (climate change) and the digital environments (social media). Findings also account for broader logics and strategies adopted by FFF-activists, on and beyond social media. They move seamlessly between online and offline, spanning across and negotiating with different platforms according to political goals and target audiences. These results contribute to overcoming reductive or marginalizing approaches to youth activism, to legitimizing and situating young activists' social media usage practices within an array of grassroots political practices, and to understanding how generational belonging affects such practices in the Italian context.