Marianna Griffini
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianna Griffini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianna |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffini |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9102-4267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Through the colonial lens
This paper draws attention to the role of colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right’s views on Italy’s foreign policy with its former colonies across the Mediterranean (i.e. Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia). While recent academic scholarship has studied the influence of colonial memory on anti-immigrant sentiment, the role of colonial memory in contemporary parties’ appraisal of Italian foreign policy towards its former colonial …
Strongwomen? Female Leaders in the Populist Radical Right in France and Italy
In 2022, Giorgia Meloni (Fratelli d’Italia-FdI) and Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National-RN) achieved historically significant electoral results, cementing their position as female leaders of the populist radical right. This paper examines how these figures perform and frame gender-related issues, which is still an understudied topic. Through a qualitative discourse analysis of their TikTok and Twitter content, we argue that Meloni and Le Pen ex…
Produce and reproduce! Understanding multidimensionality in contemporary radical right populist ideology
Radical right populism represents a multidimensional and transforming ideology. This contribution tackles the complexity of radical right populism by drawing a theoretical framework based upon two related concepts: producerism and reproducerism. While the first is a well-known notion in the literature on populism, the second is introduced here as a complementary concept that involves reproductive politics, including natality and the family. This …
A broadening agenda? Southern European far-right campaigns in the 2024 European Parliament elections
In the 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections, far-right parties achieved significant electoral success, further consolidating their position in Europe. Against this background, this article focuses on Southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). It examines far-right parties’ electoral campaigns by analysing four core issue areas, ranging from the traditional far-right focus on immigration to concerns related to the environment, gender…
Right Move? Populist Radical Right Parties and Europe
While before winning power populist radical right (PRR) parties are often overtly against the European Union (EU) and its policies, once in government their position can change significantly. Their threats to leave the EU are frequently replaced by requests for greater EU involvement, particularly in economic and migration issues. This Special Issue unpacks PRR parties’ discourse and policies in relation to Europe, before and after gaining power.…
An Ideological Divide? Political Parties’ Discourse in Italy’s Migration Cooperation with Libya and Albania
Italy’s migration agreements with Libya in 2017 and Albania in 2023 serve as crucial cases for investigating how political parties in Europe position themselves on immigration policy. By comparing parties across the Italian political spectrum, this research assesses whether they have articulated distinct stances on the externalisation of migration in the two selected cases. A qualitative analysis of parliamentary debates reveals two dominant logi…
Digital Sovereignism
This article examines the positioning of political parties on the issue of transnational data governance, with a special focus on sovereignist parties, through the case study of Italy. With digital policy being increasingly high on Italy’s political agenda, the country finds itself in a delicate balancing act between guarding itself from external interference, and opening up to global key players in data governance, including international corpor…
A Wolf Coated by Sheep’s Skin? Fratelli d’Italia’s Nativism and Model Setting in the EU
This paper examines the immigration discourse and policies of Italy’s populist radical right party Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) during the 2024 European Parliament elections. Despite extensive research on FdI’s nativism, its deployment in EU elections remains underexplored. Using X (Twitter) posts and official videos, this study investigates how FdI embraced nativism in its immigration-related discourse and policy around the EU elections, and how it r…
Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024
Abuses of the past by the Italian far right
Collective memory plays an important part in the ideational and cultural battlegrounds that characterise current European politics. The mobilisation and manipulation of the memory of Nazi-fascism, in particular, is a growing political and academic concern, related to the rise of far right parties throughout the continent and the mainstreaming of their ideas and positions. Focusing on the case of Italy, this article examines three recent examples …
The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right
The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right examines the role of colonial memory in the contemporary Italian populist radical right, which includes the Lega and Fratelli d’Italia (FdI). The book originally adopts postcolonialism as an analytical framework to critically examine which roles colonial memory plays in the Italian populist radical right. Considering the timeframe between 2013 and 2021, this book suggests that the conte…
Walking on the tightrope between moderation and radicalisation
As the fatal grip of the Covid-19 pandemic started to ease, in summer 2022 Italy underwent seismic political developments, which saw the establishment of the first totally populist radical right government in Italian history. On 25 September 2022, the general elections shook up the Italian political scene, with Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) scoring a resounding victory that earned the party the seat of the Prime Minister. Despite fears of a radicalisat…
How can you feel guilty for colonialism? it is a folly
This paper draws attention to the role of colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right. Italy's colonial past has been long confined on the fringes of memory in Italian politics and in the Italian public debate. While recent academic attention has been devoted to the selective colonial memory transpiring from Italian cultural products, scarce attention has been paid to colonial memory in contemporary Italian political parties' discourse.…
Roundtable on Visuality, Race and Nationhood in Italy
This Roundtable on Visuality, Race and Nationhood in Italy brings together scholars from the arts, humanities and social sciences to discuss historical constructions of Italian whiteness and national identity in relation to the current xenophobic discourse on race and migration, stressing their rootedness in as yet unchallenged modern notions of scientific racism. Building on postcolonial historian and anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler’s definition…
How can you feel guilty for colonialism? it is a folly
This paper draws attention to the role of colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right. Italy's colonial past has been long confined on the fringes of memory in Italian politics and in the Italian public debate. While recent academic attention has been devoted to the selective colonial memory transpiring from Italian cultural products, scarce attention has been paid to colonial memory in contemporary Italian political parties' discourse.…
Walking on the tightrope between moderation and radicalisation
As the fatal grip of the Covid-19 pandemic started to ease, in summer 2022 Italy underwent seismic political developments, which saw the establishment of the first totally populist radical right government in Italian history. On 25 September 2022, the general elections shook up the Italian political scene, with Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) scoring a resounding victory that earned the party the seat of the Prime Minister. Despite fears of a radicalisat…
Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024
Roundtable on Visuality, Race and Nationhood in Italy
This Roundtable on Visuality, Race and Nationhood in Italy brings together scholars from the arts, humanities and social sciences to discuss historical constructions of Italian whiteness and national identity in relation to the current xenophobic discourse on race and migration, stressing their rootedness in as yet unchallenged modern notions of scientific racism. Building on postcolonial historian and anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler’s definition…
How can you feel guilty for colonialism? it is a folly
This paper draws attention to the role of colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right. Italy's colonial past has been long confined on the fringes of memory in Italian politics and in the Italian public debate. While recent academic attention has been devoted to the selective colonial memory transpiring from Italian cultural products, scarce attention has been paid to colonial memory in contemporary Italian political parties' discourse.…
The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right
The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right examines the role of colonial memory in the contemporary Italian populist radical right, which includes the Lega and Fratelli d’Italia (FdI). The book originally adopts postcolonialism as an analytical framework to critically examine which roles colonial memory plays in the Italian populist radical right. Considering the timeframe between 2013 and 2021, this book suggests that the conte…
Walking on the tightrope between moderation and radicalisation
As the fatal grip of the Covid-19 pandemic started to ease, in summer 2022 Italy underwent seismic political developments, which saw the establishment of the first totally populist radical right government in Italian history. On 25 September 2022, the general elections shook up the Italian political scene, with Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) scoring a resounding victory that earned the party the seat of the Prime Minister. Despite fears of a radicalisat…
Abuses of the past by the Italian far right
Collective memory plays an important part in the ideational and cultural battlegrounds that characterise current European politics. The mobilisation and manipulation of the memory of Nazi-fascism, in particular, is a growing political and academic concern, related to the rise of far right parties throughout the continent and the mainstreaming of their ideas and positions. Focusing on the case of Italy, this article examines three recent examples …
Right Move? Populist Radical Right Parties and Europe
While before winning power populist radical right (PRR) parties are often overtly against the European Union (EU) and its policies, once in government their position can change significantly. Their threats to leave the EU are frequently replaced by requests for greater EU involvement, particularly in economic and migration issues. This Special Issue unpacks PRR parties’ discourse and policies in relation to Europe, before and after gaining power.…
An Ideological Divide? Political Parties’ Discourse in Italy’s Migration Cooperation with Libya and Albania
Italy’s migration agreements with Libya in 2017 and Albania in 2023 serve as crucial cases for investigating how political parties in Europe position themselves on immigration policy. By comparing parties across the Italian political spectrum, this research assesses whether they have articulated distinct stances on the externalisation of migration in the two selected cases. A qualitative analysis of parliamentary debates reveals two dominant logi…
Digital Sovereignism
This article examines the positioning of political parties on the issue of transnational data governance, with a special focus on sovereignist parties, through the case study of Italy. With digital policy being increasingly high on Italy’s political agenda, the country finds itself in a delicate balancing act between guarding itself from external interference, and opening up to global key players in data governance, including international corpor…
A Wolf Coated by Sheep’s Skin? Fratelli d’Italia’s Nativism and Model Setting in the EU
This paper examines the immigration discourse and policies of Italy’s populist radical right party Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) during the 2024 European Parliament elections. Despite extensive research on FdI’s nativism, its deployment in EU elections remains underexplored. Using X (Twitter) posts and official videos, this study investigates how FdI embraced nativism in its immigration-related discourse and policy around the EU elections, and how it r…
Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024
Through the colonial lens
This paper draws attention to the role of colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right’s views on Italy’s foreign policy with its former colonies across the Mediterranean (i.e. Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia). While recent academic scholarship has studied the influence of colonial memory on anti-immigrant sentiment, the role of colonial memory in contemporary parties’ appraisal of Italian foreign policy towards its former colonial …
Strongwomen? Female Leaders in the Populist Radical Right in France and Italy
In 2022, Giorgia Meloni (Fratelli d’Italia-FdI) and Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National-RN) achieved historically significant electoral results, cementing their position as female leaders of the populist radical right. This paper examines how these figures perform and frame gender-related issues, which is still an understudied topic. Through a qualitative discourse analysis of their TikTok and Twitter content, we argue that Meloni and Le Pen ex…
Produce and reproduce! Understanding multidimensionality in contemporary radical right populist ideology
Radical right populism represents a multidimensional and transforming ideology. This contribution tackles the complexity of radical right populism by drawing a theoretical framework based upon two related concepts: producerism and reproducerism. While the first is a well-known notion in the literature on populism, the second is introduced here as a complementary concept that involves reproductive politics, including natality and the family. This …
A broadening agenda? Southern European far-right campaigns in the 2024 European Parliament elections
In the 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections, far-right parties achieved significant electoral success, further consolidating their position in Europe. Against this background, this article focuses on Southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). It examines far-right parties’ electoral campaigns by analysing four core issue areas, ranging from the traditional far-right focus on immigration to concerns related to the environment, gender…
Politics (9 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (7 works) · Radical right (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works)