Manuela Caiani

Manuela Caiani è Professore Associato in Scienze Politiche presso la Scuola Normale Superiore e affiliata al Cosmos Center for Social Movement Studies (SNS). Ha conseguito l'Abilitazione nazionale italiana per la cattedra di prima fascia in Scienze Politiche; e in Sociologia politica, nel 2017. La sua ricerca si concentra su Movimenti sociali ed europeizzazione; politica di estrema destra; Estremismo online; Populismo di destra e di sinistra; Movimento-partiti; Metodi qualitativi della ricerca sociale. È Convenor del Gruppo Permanente “Partecipazione Politica e Movimenti Sociali” dell'Associazione Italiana di Scienze Politiche (SISP) e Coordinatrice del Master in Scienze Politiche e Sociologia della Scuola Normale Superiore. Nella "terza missione" è co-direttore dell'Osservatorio internazionale sulla coesione sociale e l'inclusione-OCIS, https://osservatoriocoesionesociale.eu/. Ha diretto e collaborato a vari progetti internazionali (progetti Horizon; Volskwagen Stiftung; Europe for Citizens Program; FP4, FP5, FP7; PRIN; Marie Curie; Research Grant Jubilaumsfonds, ONB; Doctoral TRA Fellowship, START Center, 2009, University of Maryland). Ha pubblicato, tra le altre, sulle seguenti riviste: Social Movement Studies, EJPR, Mobilization, Acta Politica, West European Politics, Government and Opposition; European Union Politics, South European Society and Politics, RISP e per i seguenti editori: Oxford University press, Ashgate, Palgrave, Routledge.

Recenti pubblicazioni:

• Manuela Caiani & Balša Lubarda (2023) Conditional environmentalism of right-wing populism in power: ideology and/or opportunities?, Environmental Politics, DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2023.2242749
• Caiani, M. et all. (2023) Challengers or the Establishment? How Populists Talk About Populists, German Politics, DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2023.2207014
• Caiani, M., & Di Cocco, J. (2023). Populism and emotions: A comparative study using Machine Learning. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 1-16. DOI:10.1017/ipo.2023.8
• Caiani, M. (2023). Framing and social movements. Discourse Studies, 25(2), 195–209.
• Manuela Caiani and Enrico Padoan (2023), Populism and (Pop) Music, Palgrave
• Manuela Caiani and Manès Weisskircher (2022), ‘Anti-Nationalist Europeans and Pro-European Nativists on the Streets: Visions of Europe from the Left to the Far Right’, Social Movement Studies, 21:1-2, 216-233
• Manuela Caiani (2022) Movements and Parties: An introduction, PACO Participation and Conflict, Vol.15, no 3,  http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/26475
• Manuela Caiani, Benedetta Carlotti & Enrico Padoan (2021) ‘Online Hate Speech and the Radical Right in Times of Pandemic’, Javnost - The Public, 28:2, 202-218.
• Manuela Caiani and O. Cisar (2018), Radical Right Movement-parties in Europe, Routledge.
• Manuela Caiani and L. Parenti, (2013) European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet, Ashgate.
• Manuela Caiani, D. della Porta and C. Wagemann (2012), Mobilizing on the Extreme Right, Oxford University Press.

Progetti vinti:

• 2023-2026 CIDAPE ‘Climate, Inequality, and Democratic Action: The Force of Political Emotions’,   HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01-04, Principal investigator.
• 2022-2025 AUTHLIB ‘Neo –Authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response’,   Horizon 2021 (HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01-01), Principal investigator.
• 2022-2025 GOLDSTEIN – Debunking Political Uses of Denialisms and Conspiracy Theories in EU, Jean Monnet Programme/Module, partner
• 2022-2024 ‘Democratic Challenges, Social sustainability and Gender inequalities’, Programma congiunto PRO3 (DM n. 289/2021), Principal investigator/project coordinator.
• 2021-2022 ‘Tackling illiberal narratives and Euroscepticism from below’, Europe for Citizens Program (number: 625696-CITIZ-1-2020-1-MK-CITIZ-CIV), Principal investigator.
• 2019-2021 ‘Populism and Popular Music in Europe’, Volkswagen Stiftung (n. No A126160), PI.
• 2018-2020 ‘The consequences of Populism in Power’, SNS Research Grant, Project Coordinator
• 2016-2019, PRIN (Italian Research Ministry Funds) Project on “Politics e Policy in Europa in tempo di crisi: Cause e Conseguenze”, PI.
• 2016 - 2018 SNS Research Grant, SNS, “Right-Wing Political Radicalization Using the Internet in Eastern and Central Europe”, PI.
• 2010 - 2012 Research Grant Jubilaumsfonds, Oesterreichische National Bank,  “The Dark Side of the Web European and American Extreme Right Groups and online Politics” (n. 14035), Project Coordinator, IHS, Wien.

La Prof. Caiani è disponibile a supervisionare ricerche a orientamento empirico in aree relative a:

• Movimenti sociali ed europeizzazione/transnazionalizzazione di mobilitazioni, identità, reti di protesta
• Politica di estrema destra
• L'estremismo in rete
• Movimento-partiti
• Populismo
• Movimenti sociali in Oriente/Balcani
• Metodi qualitativi della ricerca sociale (focus group, visual e frame analysis, interviste qualitative, social network analysis, analisi di eventi di protesta, ecc.).

(phd) Supervisees:

• Saridakis Nikolaos (Radical right protest and Corona)
• Alexsandr Shishov (European Identities of the radical right)
• Nathasha Aidoo (Urban Feminism)
• Beatrice Carella (Left wing populism in power)
• Nicolò Pennucci (Anti populist social movements)
• Ivan Tranfic (Anti-gender social movements)
• Aida Kapetanovic (Collective identity in divided societies)
• Bathuan Erren (Diffusion of mobilization)
• Damla.Keskekci (The transnationalization of radical right social movements)
• Bucci Gianmarco (Movement-parties)
• Deniz Aktan (Sport and political participation)
• Masika Vaninetti (East African Community and Social networks)
• Maximilian Weckermann  (Imagined future of the far right)