Biography
Francesco Colin is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS-EUR) and an associate fellow at the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis in Rabat. His doctoral research focuses on civic engagement and active citizenship through local petitions in Morocco. He also collaborates with different research projects on political participation, social accountability, decentralisation and the impact of technology on local governance.
Prior to his research activities, Francesco graduated from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree "Crossing the Mediterranean: Towards Investment and Integration" (MIM) and has worked for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Rabat as a junior expert for the Democratisation component.
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Work
- Francesco Colin (2024) - Articulating spaces for citizenship: Performing the right to petition Moroccan municipalities
- Francesco Colin (2024) - Social Accountability in Morocco: Recurring Pressures and Sporadic Concessions - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-51322-0_3
- Francesco Colin, Sylvia Bergh, Katharina Natter, Issam Cherrat & Ben Wagner (2024) - Morocco’s Governance of Cities and Borders: AI-Enhanced Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and Human Rights
- Francesco Colin (2023) - The Dark Side of the Digital Transition?: Assessing Digitalisation Policies and Practices in Morocco from a Data Protection Perspective - [link]
- Alfonso Casani & Francesco Colin (2023) - Evolving consensus around Moroccan-Israeli normalisation: a political space analysis - L'Année du Maghreb - doi: 10.4000/anneemaghreb.12718 - [link]
- Francesco Colin (2023) - Trajectories of depoliticization and re-politicization: Petitioning to Moroccan municipalities - Mediterranean Politics - doi: 10.1080/13629395.2023.2289099 - [link]
- Francesco Colin (2022) - Petitions in Municipal Action Plans: A chance to follow-up on the promises of participation? - [link]
- Francesco Colin, Sylvia Bergh, Ward Vloeberghs, Intissar Kherigi & Hicham Jadaoun (2022) - Powerful tool or passing trend? Meanings and practices of social accountability in the Arab world, and why they matter - [link]
- Francesco Colin (2021) - Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies - doi: 10.1080/13530194.2021.1981233 - [link]
- Francesco Colin (2020) - À la recherche de réponses : comment la loi relative au droit d’accès à l’information influence la recherche académique - [link]
