Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures

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.

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