TEAM

Manuela Caiani

START YEAR 2022

END YEAR 2025

DESCRIPTION

In recent years the political uses of new denialisms and conspiracy theories have played a crucial role in the European Union at least in two spheres considered of the utmost importance by the European Commission: the fight against climate change and the overcoming of the Covid-19 epidemic. In both cases, in almost all European countries, especially right-wing nationalist Eurosceptic populist parties have systematically used these logical and political forms, also linked to new forms of antisemitism, in a strategic way in order to mobilize their followers and enlarge their consent. Beginning with new important studies on these burning issues and adopting an interdisciplinary approach founded in political science and political philosophy, this Jean Monnet Module proposal aims to develop, to share and to disseminate a still missing unitarian conceptual and analytical framework that can offer a more comprehensive critical explanation of these phenomena.

TEAM

Manuela Caiani (SNS); external research fellows: Ela Drazkiewic (Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences), Nikolaos Saridakis (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece), Pal Susanszky (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest)

PROJECT PARTNERS

Marco Solinas, project manager (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Michael Butter, senior expert (University of Freiburg)
Nadia Urbinati, senior expert (Columbia University, New York, and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Alberto Di Martino, senior expert (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Peter Knight, senior expert (University of Manchester)
Barbara Henry, senior expert (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Uffa Jensen, senior expert (Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität, Berlin)
Giuseppe Martinico, senior expert (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Anna Loretoni, senior expert (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Stella Levantesi, senior expert (Journalist, Rome)
Giaco

FUNDING

Jean Monnet Programme/Module (2022-25)