Pietro Castelli Gattinara

Bio

Pietro Castelli Gattinara is an Associate Professor in the department of Political Science, ULB. His research in comparative politics focuses on political conflict, with a special focus the far right, public debates on migration, and the relationship between (digital) media and protest movements. He is the director of the Far-Right Protest Observatory (farpo.eu) and of the ECPR Summer School on Concepts and Methods to study far-right politics.
 

CV

• 2021- Associate Professor, ULB Centre d’étude de la vie politique (Cevipol) ; Chair in Digital Political Communication

• 2021-2024 : Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Science Po, Centre d’études européenne (CEE)
   
• 2021-2023 : Adjunct Professor, University of Oslo Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX)
   
• 2017-2021 : Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo
   
• 2015-2017 : Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Political Science, Scuola Normale Superiore
   
• 2014-2015 : Research assistant, Department of Politics, University of Leicester
   
• 2010-2014 : PhD Student, Department of Political and Social Sciences, EUI
   
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Areas of research
 

• Political communication (campaigning, media systems, public debates)
   
• Comparative political sociology (far-right politics; social movements)
   
• Internet and politics (impact of digital media on politics and society)

Teaching

Introduction to Political Communication (BA) https://www.ulb.be/fr/programme/2024-poli-d307

Political Marketing and Communication (MA) https://www.ulb.be/fr/programme/poli-d506

Digital Politics (MA) https://www.ulb.be/fr/programme/poli-d505

Séminaire de préparation au TFE (MA) https://www.ulb.be/fr/programme/2023-poli-d522

Research

FARPO: the Far-Right Protest Observatory www.farpo.eu

FARMEC: Far-Right Mobilization and the European Crises (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Project, 2021-2024) https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/883620/results

MAM: Reaching out to close the borders: the transnationalization of anti-migration movements in Europe (Research Council of Norway, VAM Programme, 2020-2023)
https://www.prio.org/projects/1857

 

Publications

Castelli Gattinara, P. and Pirro, ALP (2024). Movement Parties of the Far Right. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Castelli Gattinara P., Froio, C. (2023) “When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe”, Comparative Political Studies, 00104140231169029

Castelli Gattinara P., Froio, C. and Pirro, A. (2022) “Far-right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities, and resources”, European Journal of Political Research, 61(04), pp. 1019-1041

Della Porta, D., Castelli Gattinara, P., Eleftheriadis, K. and Felicetti, A. (2020). Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures: Debating Citizenship after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Oxford: Oxford University Press

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