Pietro Castelli Gattinara
Associate professor (Chair in Digital Political communication, ULB/Cevipol)
Associate researcher (Universy of Oslo/C-REX)
Pietro Castelli Gattinara is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the CEE and holds the Chair in Digital Political Communication at Cevipol, Université Libre de Bruxelles. He earned his Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences in 2014 from the European University Institute and has held research and teaching positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy), the University of Oslo, and the University of Leicester. Since 2017, he has been collaborating with the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) and directing the ECPR Concepts and Methods to study far-right politics summer school. His research focuses on political cleavages in Europe, political participation in far-right movements, and the relationship between media and collective action.
Currently, he is working on three research projects:
Far-Right Mobilization and the European Crises (FARMEC, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Programme). The project examines the reshaping of far-right collective action in 11 European countries from 2008 to the present (Legal information).
The Comparative Far-Right Protest Project (CFP, funded by the Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo). This project provides a mapping of far-right protest mobilizations in Europe and beyond, studying their drivers and consequences.
Mobilizing Against Migration (MAM, funded by the Norwegian Research Council in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo). The project explores the transnationalization of contemporary anti-immigration movements through interviews with activists and party officials in Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
Research interests
Social movements; Political parties; Political communication; Far-right Politics
Selected publications
- Castelli Gattinara, P., Froio, C. and Pirro, A. (2022). Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources, European Journal of Political Research, online first
- Froio, C. Castelli Gattinara, P., Bulli, G. and Albanese, M. (2021). CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme Right Politics. London and New York: Routledge.
- Della Porta, D., Castelli Gattinara, P., Eleftheriadis, K. and Felicetti, A. (2020). Discursive Critical Junctures: The Debate on the Charlie Hebdo Attack , Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Castelli Gattinara, P. (2016). The Politics of Migration in Italy: perspectives on local and party competition . London and New York: Routledge.
- Castelli Gattinara, P. and Pirro, A. (2019). The Far Right as Social Movement, Special issue in European Societies, issue 2, 2019.
- Full list: Academia ; Google Scholar
To know more
- Pietro Castelli Gattinara's personal webpage
- pietro.castelligattinara@sciencespo.fr
