Places that don’t matter and Populism in Europe

The debate around the places that don’t matter is at a turning-point: after a period characterized by several
electoral twists and turns in many parts of the World, the rise of discontent seems to dim in some recent regional and national election results.
Meanwhile, Covid-19 barged into the institutional matters of wolrdwide places, with the risk of stoking economic grievances and social cleavages within many established democracies. Will Covid-19 undermine the political stability of local and national governments and/or will it act as disruptor of discontent?
We will discuss it with Philip McCann, Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at the Sheffield
University Management School, who authored the paper Perceptions of regional inequality and the geography of discontent: insights from the UK (Regional Studies, Vol. 54:2, 256-267), one of the most impactful studies addressing the matter of discontent.
The webinar is part of the activities of ‘StraDe’ research unit (Strengths and weaknesses of the economic and territorial development strategies for depressed areas. The Italian case within the European context)
and it is organized with the collaboration and patronage of c.MET05 (National University Centre on Applied
Economic Studies), DAStU belongs to.

Relatori: Philip McCann (Sheffield University Management School), Dante Di Matteo (DAStU), Massimo Bricocoli (DAStU), Ilaria Mariotti (DAStU), Gaetano Vecchione (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Eveline van Leeuwen (Wageningen University), Marco R. Di Tommaso (Università degli Studi di Ferrara, c.MET05), Augusto Cerqua (Sapienza Università di Roma), Antonella Ferrara (European Commission, Joint Research Centre), Alessandro Coppola (DAStU)

Responsabile: Dante Di Matteo, Ilaria Mariotti

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dante.dimatteo@polimi.it
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