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1 online resource (xviii, 155 pages) |
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Routledge studies in fascism and the far right |
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Routledge studies in fascism and the far right.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. CasaPound Italia: hybridization in the contemporary extreme right -- 1.1. Studying CasaPound in the European far-right context -- 1.1.1. How to distinguish extreme and radical variants of far-right politics -- 1.1.2. How to identify the organizational variants of the far right -- 1.2. The argument -- 1.3. Research design -- 1.3.1. Case selection: why CasaPound Italia? -- 1.3.2. Gauging CasaPound's profile in public debates -- 1.3.3. Studying the internal supply-side and external mobilization -- 1.4. Outline of the book -- Notes -- References -- 2. History and context of CasaPound Italia -- 2.1. Far-right politics in Italy: from 1945 to Fiuggi -- 2.2. The contemporary scenario -- 2.3. The origins of CasaPound Italia -- 2.4. From local to national, from single-issue movement to political party -- Conclusive remarks -- Notes -- References -- 3. Ideology -- 3.1. Nativism and the people: ̀€Italians first!' -- 3.2. Authoritarianism: historical Fascism and law and order -- 3.3. Welfare and the economy: state-led (domestic) laissez-faire -- 3.4. Other themes -- 3.4.1. European integration: for Europe but against the EU -- 3.4.2. The environment: for a nativist ecology -- 3.4.3. Gender: tradition against individualism -- 3.4.4. International relations: nostalgia for empires (with Putin and Assad) -- Conclusive remarks -- Notes -- References -- 4. Internal structure -- 4.1. Formal organization: territorial and thematic units -- 4.2. Leadership, decision-making and personnel selection -- 4.3. Recruitment strategies -- 4.4. Modes of engagement -- 4.4.1. The youth wing -- 4.4.2. Women in CasaPound -- 4.4.3. Football fans -- Conclusive remarks -- Notes -- References -- 5. Collective identity -- 5.1. Imagery -- 5.2. Style -- 5.3. Music -- 5.4. Violence -- Conclusive remarks -- Notes -- References -- 6. External mobilization -- 6.1. From the streets to the ballots? -- 6.2. The protest arena: issues and tactics in CasaPound's mobilization -- 6.3. The electoral arena: CasaPound's strategies and results -- 6.3.1. Issue attention in CasaPound's electoral campaigns -- 6.4. Protest and electoral campaigns -- 6.4.1. Early campaigns: housing, welfare and austerity -- 6.4.2. CasaPound's recent campaigns: the European Union and immigration -- Conclusive remarks -- Notes -- References -- 7. Political communication -- 7.1. Infrastructure: media outlets and targeted audiences -- 7.1.1. Internal communication and the house organ of CasaPound -- 7.1.2. Online platforms to communicate internally and externally -- 7.1.3. External communication and social media -- 7.2. Style: from protest to electoral politics -- 7.2.1. Crafting a social movement profile -- 7.2.2. Setting up an electoral profile -- 7.2.3. Appealing to quality media -- Conclusive remarks -- Notes -- References -- 8. Conclusions -- 8.1. Hybridization in the politics of CasaPound Italia -- 8.1.1. Drivers of hybridization -- 8.1.2. Dimensions of hybridization -- 8.1.3. The consequences of hybridization -- 8.2. Future research -- 8.3. Last thoughts -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 List of interviews -- Appendix 2 Documentary appendix: internal literature of CasaPound Italia -- Appendix 3 The coding of political claims -- Appendix 4 The coding of election manifestos |
| Summary |
In 2003, the occupation of a state-owned building in Rome led to the emergence of a new extreme-right youth movement: CasaPound Italia (CPI). Its members described themselves as 'Fascists of the Third Millennium', and were unabashed about their admiration for Benito Mussolini. Over the next 15 years, they would take to the street, contest national elections, open over a hundred centres across Italy, and capture the attention of the Italian public. While CPI can count only on a few thousands votes, it enjoys disproportionate attention in public debates from the media. So what exactly is CasaPound? How can we explain the high profile achieved by such a nostalgic group with no electoral support? In this book, Caterina Froio, Pietro Castelli Gattinara, Giorgia Bulli and Matteo Albanese explore CasaPound Italia and its particular political strategy combining the organization and style of both political parties and social movements and bringing together extreme-right ideas and pop-culture symbols. They contend that this strategy of hybridization allowed a fringe organization like CasaPound to consolidate its position within the Italian far-right milieu, but also, crucially, to make extreme-right ideas routine in public debates. The authors illustrate this argument drawing on unique empirical material gathered during five years of research, including several months of overt observation at concerts and events, face-to-face interviews, and the qualitative and quantitative analysis of online and offline campaigns. By describing how hybridization grants extremist groups the leeway to expand their reach and penetrate mainstream political debates, this book is core reading for anyone concerned about the nature and growth of far-right politics in contemporary democracies. Providing a fresh insight as to how contemporary extreme-right groups organize to capture public attention, this study will also be of interest to students, scholars and activists interested in the complex relationship between party competition and street protest more generally |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Caterina Froio is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po (Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics), and research associate at the C-Rex (University of Oslo, Norway). Her research and teaching interests are in political parties and their transformations as agents of representative government and as organizations, the relations between extremism and democracy, and e-politics. Since 2016, she is joint convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy. Her research has appeared in peer-review journals in various languages including Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics and the Revue Française de Science Politique and in several edited volumes, policy reports and media outlets. Pietro Castelli Gattinara is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo, Norway, and research associate at the Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy. His research focuses on comparative politics, the far right and migration in Western Europe. He is currently leading a comparative research project on collective action against migration during the refugee crisis. He recently published The Politics of Migration in Italy (Routledge, 2016). His work related to public debate on the Charlie Hebdo attacks appeared on international peer-reviewed journals including South European Societies and Politics and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Giorgia Bulli is Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the University of Florence, Italy, where she teaches Political Communication, and Discourse Analysis. Her main research interests include the transformation of political parties and political movements in Europe in an organizational, political, cultural and communication strategy perspective. She has conducted extensive research in Germany, where she has held seminars on political communication and radical right parties and movements at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Matteo Albanese is a post-doctoral fellow in contemporary history at the University of Padua, Italy. He works on transnational relationships between far-right organizations in Europe. His last book, Transnational Fascism (Bloomsbury, 2016) has been awarded the ERICS prize by ICS and hasbeen welcomed by the academic community as a cutting-edge text in the field of fascist studies. He has also published several articles in different top journals |
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CasaPound Italia.
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CasaPound Italia fast |
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Youth -- Political activity -- Italy
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Right-wing extremists -- Italy
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Youth movements -- Italy
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Fascism -- Italy -- 1945-
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Fascism
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Right-wing extremists
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Youth movements
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Youth -- Political activity
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Italy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Castelli Gattinara, Pietro, author.
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Bulli, Giorgia, author.
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Albanese, Matteo, 1973- author.
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| ISBN |
9781000764857 |
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1000764850 |
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9781003005513 |
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1003005519 |
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9781000764949 |
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100076494X |
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9781000765038 |
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1000765032 |
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