Pietro Castelli Gattinara

Pietro Castelli Gattinara is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Sciences Po (CEE), and Associate Professor at Cevipol, Université Libre de Bruxelles. He obtained his PhD in Political and Social Sciences (2014) from the European University Institute; since 2017, he is a research fellow of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo.  He studies the recomposition of political cleavages in Europe, political participation on the far right, and the relationship between (new) media, communication and protest. He is currently involved in three main research projects (FARPE, MAM, and FARMEC - legal information), and he is the convenor of the ECPR Summer School Concepts and Methods to study far-right politics.

Research interests

Social movements; Political parties; Political communication; Far-right Politics

Selected publications

• 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.
• Simonneau, D. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (2019) « Prendre sa part aux logiques sécuritaires : les mobilisations anti-migrants en France, en Italie et aux États-Unis », Critique Internationale.
• Castelli Gattinara, P. and Froio, C. (2018). “Quand Les Identitaires font la une : Stratégies de mobilisation et visibilité médiatique du Bloc Identitaire”, Revue Française de Science Politique, n°68(1).
• Castelli Gattinara, P. (2018). “Dimensional Issue Competition on Migration: A Comparative Analysis of Public Debates in Western Europe”, Acta Politica, Volume 54, Issue 2, pp 315–335.

To know more

• Pietro Castelli Gattinara's personal webpage
• pietro.castelligattinara@sciencespo.fr