Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Political Science, Dean of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos).
Pietro Castelli Gattinara is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on comparative politics, the far right and international migration to Europe. He is the author of The Politics of Migration in Italy (2016).
Andrea Felicetti is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Political Research at KU Leuven. He is the author of Deliberative Democracy and Social Movements.
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis is Lecturer at the University of London-Institute in Paris (ULIP) and Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS-Paris). His
research focuses on the politics of gender and sexuality and the role of mobilization for combatting discriminations. He is the author of Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe.

This volume analyses some of their main effects on public debates in Europe following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France in 2015. Based on quantitative and qualitative analyses covering France, Germany, Italy, and the UK, Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures attends to debates in the radical left, radical right and religious groups and to issues related to migration and integration, secularism and cultural diversity, security and civil rights.

• Acknowledgments


• List of Tables


• List of Figures


• Chapter 1. Discursive turns and critical junctures: An introduction


• Chapter 2. Comparing mass media debates in the European public sphere


• Chapter 3. The evolution of the debate: Polarization and deliberation over time


• Chapter 4. The deliberative qualities of the debates from a comparative perspective


• Chapter 5. Left-wing movements facing dilemmas


• Chapter 6. Multiculturalism backlash and anti-establishment politics: The far right


• Chapter 7. Religious organizations: Strategies and framing


• Chapter 8. Justifications in the debates on citizenship: Whose common good?


• Chapter 9. Discursive turns and critical junctures: some conclusions


• Technical Appendix


• References


• Index