Writing a doctoral dissertation is not a walk in the park. For me, it would not have been possible to embark on this journey without the support I received from many people. I am extremely grateful to Anna Borghi for her mentoring and for providing sources of inspiration throughout this work. A special thanks for her continuous encouragement and, above all, for her joy and enthusiasm in doing scientific research. I am equally grateful to Luisa Lugli and Roberto Nicoletti, who have been

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... supportive during my PhD study and helped me to grow as a researcher. I would also express my gratitude to Corrado Roversi and Michele Ubertone for introducing me to the sphere of institutional concepts and making interdisciplinary research not just an idea but a real, concrete possibility. I would like to thank my friends and colleagues from the University of Bologna and Freie