Donatella Gasparro is a PhD candidate in Political Science & Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) within the project REAL - A Post-Growth Deal. She is part of the editorial collective of the Italian degrowth quarterly Quaderni della Decrescita and is active in spreading and teaching degrowth in Italy and internationally.