Gianmarco Navarini is Full Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He has published widely on political rituals, liminality, social exclusion, sports practices, and wine culture. He is on the board of the journal Ethnography and Qualitative Research. He directed ELCAS (Ethnography of Language: between Conspiracy, Associations and Subcultures), which combines ethnography with discourse analysis.