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Pietro Castelli Gattinara
@pietrocastellig.bsky.social

Ass Prof @SciencePoULB
Deputy director #Cevipol


Migration politics
Far-right parties & movements
www.farpo.eu

AS Roma 🔴🟡

Political science 60%
Sociology 22%
Pinned
The Far-Right Protest Observatory is online 📯! www.farpo.eu
FARPO, a joint initiative by ULB/Cevipol, @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, C-REX, University of Bologna, provides data on protest events by far-right parties and movements across Europe in the past 20 years: check our website!
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For the latest issue of Confronti (🇮🇹), I was asked to explain the reasons behind the recent success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in polls, its leaning towards Russia, and how conservatives are handling the issue.
Saluti a @caterinafr.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @andreapirro.it
I’m glad that the 2nd #REXKLIMA workshop in Dresden brought together so many insightful presentations and lively discussions - with a great mix of quantitative and qualitative manuscripts. Looking forward to seeing these papers published! 💫📑

hait.tu-dresden.de/ext/veransta... @rexklima.bsky.social
15. As colleagues like @caterinafr.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @andreapirro.it and others have argued for years, the far right has become a social movement with various more or less connected units (parties, influencers, hooligans, media) and should be analyzed as such.
Quite surreal report of this weekend’s far-right protest in The Hague 🇳🇱 by teen reporter “Bender” 😳

Some quick thoughts 🧵
NEDERLANDERS KLAAR MET AZC’S: DEN HAAG IN BRAND
YouTube video by BENDER
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Thanks @sophiahunger.bsky.social and @swenhutter.bsky.social for such a timely contribution. Happy to see work wt @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it in this stellar line up of contributors!
📢 Call for applications!

I’m looking for a 4-year PhD researcher (100%) in Political Science: focus on public opinion & the far right

You’ll be part of the POLHYBRID project @sciencepoulb.bsky.social, working with me & @caterinafr.bsky.social
Deadline: 9 11 2025

👉 Info & apply: shorturl.at/El2mW
Doctoral Researcher (100%) in Political Science 4 years Focus: Public opinion, Political Conflict, and the Far Right
The Department of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is hiring a doctoral researcher with a specialization in quantitative research (survey and experiments) for the project “...
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Reposted by Cas Mudde

Movement Parties of the Far Right will soon be released as an audiobook (23.09.2025). @andreapirro.it @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

It will be available through major platforms including Audible, Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and others. Narration by Paul Woodson.

🔗 rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...
RBmedia | Movement Parties of the Far Right
Listen to the audiobook Movement Parties of the Far Right, written by Pietro Gattinara Castelli, narrated by Paul Woodson.
rbmediaglobal.com
🍿Do not miss our book panel at @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference celebrating these two important OUP publications by Paris Aslanidis and the dreamteam duo @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it.
🍰 Featuring commentary by @sldelange.bsky.social & @leoniedejonge.bsky.social.
On Wednesday, the day starts with a great book panel on mobalization approaches to the far right and populism, discussing the excellent mongraphs by @andreapirro.it and @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and by Paris Aslanidis. The awesome @leoniedejonge.bsky.social will join me as a discussant
Elite institutions are the first to fold.

But this is a particularly egregious case of cowardice and gaslighting. Incredible what Palestinian scholars and scholars of Palestine have to endure in this country.
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
#Danslesmédias - Tribune ✍️

Emeutes anti-migrants : à Torre-Pacheco comme ailleurs en Europe, des actions présentées comme locales et spontanées dissimulent une stratégie bien rodée de l'extrême droite, d'après @caterinafr.bsky.social, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social et les données du projet farpo.eu ⤵️
Emeutes racistes en Espagne : « Les actions présentées comme locales et spontanées sont fréquemment organisées par des groupes extérieurs »
TRIBUNE. Les chercheurs Pietro Castelli Gattinara et Caterina Froio rappellent, dans une tribune au « Monde », que les événements de Torre-Pacheco de la mi-juillet s’inscrivent dans une série d’épisod...
www.lemonde.fr
📖 Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social article now has a volume & issue number! In our work, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social, @caterinafr.bsky.social & I overview far-right contentious politics in Europe and argue for a ‘normalisation of protest’.

🔗 50 free copies available at this link: shorturl.at/iiDrt
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation
The far right is often seen to thrive in times of crisis. The unfolding of the Great Recession, the migration crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic provide an unprecedented opportunity to delve into fa...
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Ma tribune dans @lemonde.fr (avec @caterinafr.bsky.social) sur les violences de #TorrePacheco : derrière l’apparente spontanéité, une mobilisation de l’extrême droite.
👉 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Timely keynote by Donatella della Porta @ipsa.org : moral panic as a mechanism of repression of academic freedom.
Movement Parties of The Far Right travels to Seoul @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @oxfordacademic.bsky.social ,terrific discussion by the ones and only @dafnoukos.bsky.social & M. Minkenberg @ipsa.org

🗣️Do you want to automate the classification of protest events and political event data?

➡️@sehaunss.bsky.social, P.Daphi, J.M.Dollbaum, L.Hristova, P.Susánszky & E.Steinhilper introduce PAPEA, a new pipeline that uses fine-tuned LLMs to analyze event data www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
Interested in the political consequences of regressive social movements and attending @ipsa.org in Seoul? I will present new ongoing work wt @xromerovidal.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social Andrew Klassen. Info www.ipsa.org/events/congr...
I am really looking forward to discussing this fantastic book this coming Sunday, July 13th. Join us if you are attending @IPSA in Seoul!
📙 For those attending the @ipsa.org World Congress in Seoul, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & I are presenting our book, Movement Parties of the Far Right (@oxfordacademic.bsky.social), on 13 July. Discussion will feature @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Michael Minkenberg.

👉 wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/panel/aut...
Authors Meet Critics – Movement Parties of the Far Right: Understanding Nativist Mobilization
In an era of traditional political party decline, this book explores a new phase of nativist mobilization, in which street politics plays an increasingly important role. Pietro Castelli Gattinara and ...
wc2025.ipsa.org
🗣️Do you want to automate the classification of protest events and political event data?

➡️@sehaunss.bsky.social, P.Daphi, J.M.Dollbaum, L.Hristova, P.Susánszky & E.Steinhilper introduce PAPEA, a new pipeline that uses fine-tuned LLMs to analyze event data www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
(2) "When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe" by Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
On the Supply of and Demand for Right-Wing Academics by @alexandreafonso.bsky.social

"Thinking about this as a market, left-wing academics compete in a saturated field. Right-wing academics occupy a niche. Their value is amplified by their scarcity"

alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/24-on-the-...
#24 On the Supply of and Demand for Right-Wing Academics
Is it rational to become a right-wing academic outcast?
alexandreafonso.substack.com

📣 Join us for the BrIAS/CEVIPOL seminar with Arun Chaudhary: "The Filibuster for Democracy"

🗓 Wednesday 7th of May 2025, 13:30 - 16:00
📍BrIAS: maps.app.goo.gl/umz65m1EkXhB...
⚠ Please register here: lnkd.in/eAyZ9jDW
🔗Full info: lnkd.in/eYPgT55H
📽️ Livestream: lnkd.in/dVVeJJ8D
Our paper with @pietrocastellig.bsky.social is now out in the latest issue of @govandopp.bsky.social!

We interviewed 25 far-right activists in Italy during COVID-19 to explore how they reframed migration narratives while the issue faded from public attention.

doi.org/10.1017/gov....

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🚨 Call for Expressions of Interest – BrIAS x ULB Solidarity Fellowships 🚨

Are you a researcher at risk working on democratic governance?

The new BrIAS program invites expressions of interest from early-career researchers who wish to apply for a ULB postdoctoral Solidarity Fellowship.