Pietro Castelli Gattinara

Biography

EN

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.

FR

Pietro Castelli Gattinara est chargé de cours au département de science politique, ULB. Ses recherches en politique comparée portent sur les conflits politiques, avec un accent particulier sur l'extrême droite, les débats publics et le rapport entre médias (digitaux) et protestation. Il dirige le Far Right Protest Observatory (farpo.eu) ainsi que l'École d'été de l'ECPR Concepts and Methods to study far-right politics.

 

CV

Current position:

    •    Associate Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles (since 2021).
    •    Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po (since 2021)
    •    Associate researcher, Centre for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo (since 2017)
 

Titres universitaires/fonctions

    •    Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Political and Social Science, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy (2015-2017)
    •    Postdoctoral fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI (2015)
    •    PhD in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute (2010-2015)
    •    Master of Science: Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism (M.Sc), University of Utrecht (2008-2010)
    •    Bachelor of Science in Political Science and International Relations, University of Rome La Sapienza (2005-2008)

 

Travaux sélectionnés

• Castelli Gattinara, P., C. Froio & A.L.P. Pirro (forthcoming). “Far-right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities, and resources”, European Journal of Political Research, accepted for publication.
   
• Della Porta, D., P. Castelli Gattinara, K. Eleftheriadis, and A. Felicetti (2020). Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures: Debating Citizenship after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   
• Castelli Gattinara, P. (2020) “The study of the far right and its three E’s : Why scholarship must go beyond Eurocentrism, Electoralism and Externalism”, French Politics, 18(2020), 314–333.
   
• Castelli Gattinara, P. and S. Bouron (2019). “Extreme-Right Communication in Italy and France: Political Culture and Media Practices in CasaPound and Les Identitaires”, Information, Communication and Society, 23(12), pp. 1805-1819.
   
• Castelli Gattinara, P. and Pirro, A. (2019). The Far Right as Social Movement, European Societies, 21(4).
   
• Castelli Gattinara, P. (2016). The Politics of Migration in Italy: perspectives on local and party competition. London and New York: Routledge.