Pietro Castelli Gattinara

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Background

Pietro Castelli Gattinara is Postdoctoral Fellow at C-Rex, University of Oslo. His research interests include party competition and protest politics in a comparative perspective, with a special focus on the study of migration and the far right.

From 2015 to 2017, he has been a Research Fellow at the Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore. There, he worked on far right collective action during political crises. In previous years, he has been a teaching fellow of Comparative and European Politics at Sciences Po Paris and at Monash University. He holds a Master of Research and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences (2014) from the European University Institute, where he discussed a thesis on local politics and party competition on migration. He is a graduate of Political Science (University of Rome), and holds a Master of Science in Migration and Ethnic Relations from Utrecht University (2010).

Over the past years, he has collaborated on a number of national and international research projects on topics relating to political participation, immigration and far-right politics. He is proficient in both quantitative and qualitative methods.

He publishes in English, French and Italian. His work appeared in a number of international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He is the author of the monograph The politics of migration in Italy (Routledge, 2016), and co-author of Discursive Critical Junctures (OUP, in press) and CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme Right Politics (Routledge, 2020).

Research interests

  • Migration
  • Political participation
  • Far-right politics
  • Comparative politics

Post-doctoral project

Far Right Mobilization and the European Crises: Electoral and Protest Politics

Past projects

  • Collective Action and the Refugee Crisis (Scuola Normale Superiore)
  • The Charlie Hebdo Debate: Critical Junctures and Deliberation in the Public Sphere (European University Institute and Scuola Normale Superiore)
  • CasaPound: Far-Right Mobilization in times of crisis (European University Institute)

Publications

Research monographs

  • Della Porta, D., Castelli Gattinara, P., Eleftheriadis, K. and Felicetti, A. (2020). Discursive Critical Junctures: The Debate on the Charlie Hebdo Attack in Comparative Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Froio, C., Castelli Gattinara, P., Bulli, G. and Albanese, M. (2020). CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme Right Politics, Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (2016). The Politics of Migration in Italy: perspectives on local and party competition. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
  • Albanese, M., Bulli, G. Castelli Gattinara, P. and Froio, C. (2015). Fascisti di un altro millennio? Crisi e partecipazione in CasaPound Italia.  Rome: Bonanno Editore.

Edited special issues of journals

  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Pirro, A. L. P. (2019). The Far Right as Social Movement, in European Societies, issue 2, 2019, in press.

Articles in international peer reviewed journals

  • Castelli Gattinara, P. et Bouron, S. (2019), “Extreme-Right Communication in Italy and France: Political Culture and Media Practices in CasaPound and Les Identitaires”, Information, Communication and Society, online first – https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1631370.
  • 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, accepted for publication.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Pirro, A. L. P. (2019). Introduction: The Far Right as Social Movement, in European Societies, issue 2, 2019. Online First, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2018.1494301.
  • Pirro, A.L.P. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (2018). “Between Movement and Party: Enquiry Into the Organisation and Strategies of the Far Right”, Mobilization, 23(3), 367-383.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P., O’Connor, F.P., and Lindekilde, L. (2018) “No country for acting alone?  The neo-Fascist Movement and Lone-Actor Terrorist Attacks in Italy”, Perspectives on Terrorism, in press.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Froio, C. (2018). “Italy: Political development and data for 2017”, European Journal of Political Research, Early View, DOI: 10.1111/2047-8852.12206.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (2018). “Dimensional Issue Competition on Migration: A Comparative Analysis of Public Debates in Western Europe”, Acta Politica, OnlineFirst: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-018-0088-y.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Froio, C. (2018). “Getting ‘right’ into the news:  mobilization and media coverage of non-established extreme right actors in Italy and France”, Comparative European Politics, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-018-0123-4.
  • Felicetti, A. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (2018). “Towards an Assessment of Marginalization in Democratic Systems: the Charlie Hebdo Debate in the UK”, British Journal of Politics & International Relations, Online First, doi: 10.1177/1369148118758237.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Froio, C. (2018). “Quand Les Identitaires font la une : Stratégies de mobilisation et visibilité médiatique du Bloc Identitaire [The Identitarians In the Media : Mobilization Strategies and Media Visibility of Bloc Identitaire]”, Revue Française de Science Politique, n°68(1).
  • Poppi, F.M. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (2018). “Aliud pro alio: context and narratives within a neo-Nazi community of practice”, Journal of Language and Politics, 17(4), 552-572.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (2017). “Mobilizing Against ‘the Invasion’: Far-right Protest and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Italy”, Mondi Migranti, 03(2017), pp. 75-95. DOI: 10.3280/MM2017-003004
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (2017). “Framing exclusion in the public sphere: Far-right mobilization and the debate on Charlie Hebdo in Italy”, South European Society and Politics, 22(3), pp.345-364.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (2017). “The Refugee Crisis as a Crisis of Legitimacy”, Contemporary Italian Politics, 9(3), pp. 318-331.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Froio, C. (2017). “Italy 2016: European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook”, European Journal of Political Research, 56(1), pp.151-158.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Froio, C. (2017). “Far Right Communication in the Third Millennium: The Mediatised Politics of CasaPound Italia”, Comunicazione Politica, 1(17), pp. 55-76.
  • Froio, C. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (2016). “Direct social actions and far right mobilization: the relationship between ideas and action in the extreme right”, Participation and Conflict, 9(3), pp.1040-1066.
  • Froio, C. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (2015). “Neo-fascist mobilization in contemporary Italy Ideology and repertoire of action of CasaPound Italia”, Journal for deradicalization, 2(1), pp. 86-118.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Froio, C. (2014). “Identity Building and Action Repertoires in CasaPound: Discourses, Symbols and Practices of Violence”, Int. Journal of Conflict and Violence, 8(1), pp. 154-170.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P., Froio, C. and Albanese, M. (2013). “The appeal of Neo-Fascism in times of crisis: the experience of CasaPound Italia”, Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, 2(2), pp. 234–258.

Chapters in edited volumes

  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (2019). “Neo-Fascist movement parties in Italy: The extreme right between electoral and protest politics” in M. Caiani and O. Cisar (eds.) Far Right ‘Movement-Parties’ in Europe, London: Routledge, pp.81-96.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (forthcoming). “Beyond the Hand of the State: Vigilantism Against Migrants and Refugees in France” in Bjørgo, T. and Mares, M. (Eds.) Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities, London: Routledge.
  • Eleftheriadis, K. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (forthcoming). “Parler de l’islam dans la presse écrite après les attentats de janvier 2015: une enquête textuelle du journal Le Monde [Media Debates on Islam in the aftermath of the January 2015 attacks : a text analysis of the Newspaper Le Monde] ”, in Y. Benhamou et al. (eds) Faits religieux et medias, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, , pp. 95-112.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (forthcoming). “Forza Nuova and the Security Walks: Squadrismo and Neo-Fascist Vigilantism in Italy” in Bjørgo, T. and Mares, M. (Eds.) Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities, London: Routledge.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (2018). “Europeans, shut the borders! Anti-refugee mobilization in Italy and France” in D. della Porta (ed.) Contentious moves:  Solidarity mobilizations in the ‘Long Summer of Migration’, Palgrave Macmillan, in press.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. (2018). “Neofascismi in movimento: Mobilitazione, strategia e protesta nell’estrema destra italiana” in C. Fumagalli and S. Puttini (eds.) Destra/destre, Milano: Fondazione Feltrinelli, ISBN: 978-88-6835-290-5.
  • Castelli Gattinara, P. and Morales, L. (2017). “The politicization and securitization of migration in Europe: Public opinion, political parties and the immigration issue”, in P. Bourbeau (ed.), Handbook on Migration and Security, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 273-295.
  • Bulli, G. and Castelli Gattinara, P. (2013). “Tra vecchie e nuove identità. L’estrema destra in movimento [Between New and Old Identities: Mobilization and the Extreme Right]”, in L. Altieri e L. Raffini (eds), La Nuova Politica. Movimenti, Mobilitazioni e Conflitti in Italia, Napoli: EdiSes, pp 127-152.
  • Castelli, Pietro & Froio, Caterina (2023). When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe. Comparative Political Studies. ISSN 0010-4140. 57(3), p. 419–452. doi: 10.1177/00104140231169029.
  • Gattinara, Pietro Castelli & Zamponi, Lorenzo (2020). Uneven ground: The asymmetric competition between anti-refugee and solidarity movements in Italy. Politiche Sociali. ISSN 2284-2098. p. 267–290. doi: 10.7389/97989.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Zamponi, Lorenzo (2020). Politicizing support and opposition to migration in France: The EU asylum policy crisis and direct social activism. Journal of European Integration. ISSN 0703-6337. doi: 10.1080/07036337.2020.1792459. Full text in Research Archive
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2020). The study of the far right and its three E’s: why scholarship must go beyond Eurocentrism, Electoralism and Externalism. French Politics. ISSN 1476-3419. p. 1–20. doi: 10.1057/s41253-020-00124-8. Full text in Research Archive
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Froio, Caterina (2019). Italy: Political Developments and Data for 2018. European Journal of Political Research: Political Data Yearbook. ISSN 2047-8844. 58(1), p. 149–161. doi: 10.1111/2047-8852.12206. Full text in Research Archive
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2019). Forza Nuova and the Security Walks: Squadrismo and Neo-Fascist Vigilantism in Italy. In Bjørgo, Tore & Mareš, Miroslav (Ed.), Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities. Routledge. ISSN 978-1-138-49380-3. doi: 10.4324/9780429485619-12.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2019). Beyond the Hand of the State: Vigilantism Against Migrants and Refugees in France. In Bjørgo, Tore & Mareš, Miroslav (Ed.), Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities. Routledge. ISSN 978-1-138-49380-3. doi: 10.4324/9780429485619-13.
  • Simonneau, Damien & Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2019). Prendre part aux logiques d'exclusion : Les mobilisations anti-migrants en france, en italie et aux états-unis. Critique Internationale. ISSN 1290-7839. 84(3), p. 105–124. doi: 10.3917/crii.084.0105.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Bouron, Samuel (2019). Extreme-right communication in Italy and France: political culture and media practices in CasaPound Italia and Les Identitaires. Information, Communication & Society. ISSN 1369-118X. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1631370. Full text in Research Archive
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2018). Neo-Fascist movement parties in Italy. The extreme right between electoral and protest politics. In Caiani, Manuela & Císař, Ondřej (Ed.), Radical Right Movement Parties in Europe. Routledge. ISSN 9781351342803. p. 81–97. doi: 10.4324/9781315123851-6.
  • Poppi, Fabio M. & Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2018). Aliud pro alio Context and narratives within a neo-Nazi community of practice . Journal of Language and Politics. ISSN 1569-2159. 17(4), p. 552–572. doi: 10.1075/jlp.17014.pop.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Froio, Caterina (2018). Quand Les Identitaires font la une : Stratégies de mobilisation et visibilité médiatique du Bloc Identitaire. Revue française de science politique. ISSN 0035-2950. 68(1). doi: 10.3917/rfsp.681.0103.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro; O'Connor, Francis P. & Lindekilde, Lasse (2018). Italy, No Country for Acting Alone? Lone Actor Radicalisation in the Neo-Fascist Milieu . Perspectives on Terrorism (PT). ISSN 2334-3745. Full text in Research Archive
  • Pirro, Andrea L. P. & Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2018). Movement parties of the far right: The organization and strategies of nativist collective actors. Mobilization. ISSN 1086-671X. 23(3), p. 367–383. doi: 10.17813/1086-671X-23-3-367.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Pirro, Andrea L. P. (2018). Introduction: The Far Right as Social Movement. European Societies. ISSN 1461-6696. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1080/14616696.2018.1494301.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Froio, Caterina (2018). Getting `right? into the news: grassroots far-right mobilization and media coverage in Italy and France. Comparative European Politics. ISSN 1472-4790. p. 1–21. doi: 10.1057/s41295-018-0123-4.
  • Felicetti, Andrea & Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2018). Toward an assessment of marginality in democratic systems: The Charlie Hebdo debate in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Politics & International Relations. ISSN 1369-1481. 20(2), p. 497–517. doi: 10.1177/1369148118758237.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2018). Dimensional issue competition on migration: a comparative analysis of public debates in Western Europe. Acta Politica. ISSN 0001-6810. p. 1–21. doi: 10.1057/s41269-018-0088-y.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Froio, Caterina (2017). Italy 2016: European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook. European Journal of Political Research: Political Data Yearbook. ISSN 2047-8844.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Froio, Caterina (2017). Far Right Communication in the Third Millennium: The Mediatised Politics of CasaPound Italia. Comunicazione Politica. ISSN 1594-6061. 2017(1).
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2017). Mobilizing Against ‘the Invasion’: Far-right Protest and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ . Mondi Migranti. ISSN 1972-4888. 2017(03), p. 75–95. doi: 10.3280/mm2017-003004.
  • Castelli Gattinara Di Zubiena, Pietro (2017). The ‘refugee crisis’ in Italy as a crisis of legitimacy. Contemporary Italian Politics. ISSN 2324-8823. 9(3). doi: 10.1080/23248823.2017.1388639.
  • Castelli Gattinara Di Zubiena, Pietro (2017). Framing exclusion in the public sphere: Far-right mobilization and the debate on Charlie Hebdo in Italy. South European Society & Politics. ISSN 1360-8746. 22(3). doi: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1374323.
  • Froio, Caterina & Castelli Gattinara, Pietro (2016). Direct social actions and far right mobilization: the relationship between ideas and action in the extreme right. PArtecipazione e COnflitto. ISSN 1972-7623. 9(3), p. 1040–1066.
  • Castelli Gattinara Di Zubiena, Pietro & Froio, Catarina (2015). Neo-fascist mobilization in contemporary Italy Ideology and repertoire of action of CasaPound Italia. Journal for Deradicalization. ISSN 2363-9849. 2(1). doi: 10.4324/9781003005513-1.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Froio, Caterina (2014). Identity Building and Action Repertoires in CasaPound: Discourses, Symbols and Practices of Violence. International Journal of Conflict and Violence. ISSN 1864-1385. 8(1), p. 154–170.

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  • Froio, Caterina; Castelli Gattinara, Pietro; Bulli, Giorgia & Albanese, Matteo (2020). CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme Right Politics. Routledge. ISBN 9780367435493. 174 p.
  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro; Felicetti, Andrea; della Porta, Donatella & Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos (2020). Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures: Debating Citizenship after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190097431. 272 p.
  • Castelli Gattinara Di Zubiena, Pietro (2016). The Politics of Migration in Italy: perspectives on local and party competition. Routledge. ISBN 9781138642560. 214 p.

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  • Castelli Gattinara, Pietro & Froio, Caterina (2018). Italy: Political development and data for 2017 . European Journal of Political Research: Political Data Yearbook. ISSN 2047-8844. doi: 10.1111/2047-8852.12206.

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