Gilda ZAZZARA
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Roles
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Deputy member of University's Equal Opportunities, Employees’ Well-being and Inclusion Committee
President of the Joint Teaching Affairs Committee
- Telephone
- 041 234 9856
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gildazazzara@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Contemporary History [HIST-03/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/gildazazzara(personal record)
- Office
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Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Teaching activity current year
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STUDI STORICI: ETÀ MEDIEVALE, MODERNA, CONTEMPORANEA [FMR7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
Teaching activity previous years
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea
STORIA [FT5]
Laurea
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea
STORIA [FT5]
Laurea
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea
STORIA [FT5]
Laurea
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Storia contemporanea [HIST-03/A]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Nazionale
- Known languages
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Inglese
(scritto: intermedio parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: intermedio parlato: avanzato)
Spagnolo (scritto: base parlato: intermedio)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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Redazione «Venetica. Rivista di storia contemporanea» (2012)
Comitato scientifico collane editoriali: «Transizioni», Meltemi (2025), «Storie e voci del Novecento veneziano», Iveser-Cierre (2023), «OttocentoDuemila», Bologna University Press (2014)
Comitato scientifico riviste: «Il de Martino. Storie voci suoni» (2023), «A òpra. Annali di storia e studi della Fondazione Valore Lavoro» (2022)
Consulta scientifica Istituto Ernesto De Martino (2025)
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Storia e Antropologia Linea:
Storia contemporanea
- Storia del lavoro e del movimento operaio
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- Description:
- Labour history in contemporary Italy, with a focus on the making of the working class and trade union movement.
- Keywords:
- Contemporary history, Social history, Economic history
- Working-class studies
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- Description:
- Working-class lives, cultures, politics, economics, and social movements, with a focus on autobiographies and egodocuments.
- Keywords:
- Contemporary history, Local history, Social history
- Deindustrialization Studies
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- Description:
- Processes of industrial decline in Italy, with particular reference to the impact on the working-class.
- Keywords:
- Social history, Economic history, Political history
- Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time-DePOT (co-investigator)
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- SSD:
- M-STO/04
- Girolamo Li Causi a Venezia. 1913-1922 (progetto finanziato dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri in occasione del Centenario del Pci)
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- SSD:
- M-STO/04
- Other members of the research group:
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Alessandro CASELLATO
- Porto Marghera: lavoro, sindacato, ambiente nei processi di deindustrializzazione (anni 70-oggi)
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- SSD:
- M-STO/04
- Proteste ambientali contro le industrie nocive in Italia
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- SSD:
- HIST-03/A
Publication highlights
Gilda Zazzara Il sindacato nella crisi, le crisi nel sindacato in PAROLECHIAVE, vol. 15, pp. 153-165 (ISSN 1122-5300)
2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125087
Gilda Zazzara Le ere del lavoro a Porto Marghera in FONDAMENTA, vol. 1, pp. 99-112 (ISSN 3103-6686)
2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125108
Gilda Zazzara Industrial sunset, Ecological sunrise. The Italian Workers' Movement between Deindustrialisation and Environmentalism , Futures in the History of Deindustrialisation, Bologna University Press, pp. 19-44 (ISBN 9791254778197) (ISSN 2284-4368)
DOI - URL correlato 2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5098650
Gilda Zazzara, Marion Fontaine, Steven High Towards the Study of the Spatial Dynamics of Industrial Restructuring , The Politics of Industrial Closure: Transnational and Comparative Histories, University of Toronto Press, pp. 27-54 (ISBN 9781049800554)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5118707
Giuseppe Regis, Gilda Zazzara, Laura De Giorgi Diario cinese 1957-1961 , 10.30687/978-88-6969-958-0, Edizioni Ca' Foscari (ISSN 2610-9042)
- URL correlato 2025,
Pubblicazione di fonti inedite - ARCA card: 10278/5106887
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Gilda Zazzara is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She has worked on the history of historiography, left-wing intellectuals, labour history and the workers' movement in republican Italy. She has carried out research on the working-class cultures of Venice/Porto Marghera and the Veneto region, making extensive use of oral sources, memoirs and autobiographical writings. For some years now, she has been interested in the processes of deindustrialisation, with a particular focus on the political, social and environmental impacts. She is co-investigator of the international project DePOT (www.deindustrialization.org). Some materials on the research on the deindustrialisation of Porto Marghera are available here and here. More recently, she has begun to investigate the conflicts between work and the environment, the problems of the 'just transition' and the experiences of labour environmentalism, teaching Environmental History of Work in the master's degree course in Environmental Humanities.
She was visiting scholar at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent (2018) and at Birkbeck University London (2024). She is vice-president of the Venetian Institute for the History of Resistance and Contemporary Society (Iveser) and coordinator of the history journal "Venetica". Among her latest publications: Renzo e i suoi compagni. Una microstoria sindacale del Veneto (Donzelli, Roma 2022, with Alessandro Casellato), Fondato sul lavoro. Scritti per Stefano Musso (Accademia University Press, Torino 2022, ed. by, with Fabrizio Loreto) and Cesco Chinello, Cronache veneziane sulla Bolognina (1988-1993). Un diario politico-sentimentale, (Iveser-Cierre, Venezia-Verona 2023, ed. by). In 2024 she produced with Alessandro Casellato the podcast Girolamo Li Causi: il fantasma di una voce (available here).
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