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Pietro Castelli Gattinara
Pietro Castelli Gattinara is a european international scholar. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute after which he proceeded to work as a Research Fellow at the Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. He is currently active as a Postdoctoral Fellow at C-Rex, University of Oslo. His reseach focuses on far-right mobilization, social movements as well as migration and he has published about contemporary far-right actors like the Italian CasaPound.

Research
In his 2020 article „The study of the far right and its three E’s: why scholarship must go beyond Eurocentrism, Electoralism and Externalism“ Pietro Castelli Gattinara argues that far-right politics have changed significantly and to a degree that demands new models and strategies to understand their essence and ongoing transformation. According to Castelli Gattarina the model of the three E’s, namely Eurocentrism, Elecotralism and Externalism have been of service for studying the far-right up to this day but are now limiting further research due to their lack of multidimensionality. Castelli Gattinara states the far right to be one of the most studied contemporary political movements measured by the amount of literatur focussing on it. Critical review of the existing scholarship is necessary, he argues, because in his optinion the focus on Eurocentrism, Electoralism and Externalism potentially clouds possible research on other distinctive characteristics of the far-right. As an example, protest and social movements ourside of electoral politics are increasingly shaping the field but cannot be categorized and researched in the same way and are therefore underrepresented in contemporary scholarship. While externalization and outside views can be helpful, Castelli Gattinara emphasizes the importance of inside views and primary sources of right wing structures. To achieve the latter he advocated for more sociological fieldwork as well as adapting to changing media formats and proposes new research methods and questions in order to avoid narrow perspectives. He further advocates for an expanding, transnational perspective on the far-right while also paying attention to the ways, far-right actors shift political discourse from within society even if they are not successful in parliament. Researching the far right so far has been practiced with different methods in various disciplines: post-war fascism after the second world war is mostly targeted by historians while the political demands of the far right and the causes of such demands are being studied by sociology. To answer the questions as to what the far-right has to offer for potential new prospects, Gastelli Gattinara therefore advocates for new approaches.