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). Hisresearch 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.

• AcknowledgmentsList of TablesList of FiguresChapter 1. Discursive turns and critical junctures: An introductionChapter 2. Comparing mass media debates in the European public sphereChapter 3. The evolution of the debate: Polarization and deliberation over timeChapter 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 rightChapter 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 conclusionsTechnical AppendixReferencesIndex

"With subtlety and skill, Della Porta and her colleagues show exactly how violent attacks can disrupt the public sphere. Their analysis matters enormously, as the ensuing symbolic struggles help determine the contours of contemporary politics. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the wellbeing of the world's democracies." -John S. Dryzek, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Centenary Professor, University of Canberra"This is an impressive and important book. It analyzes one of the most important transformative events of the recent years: the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. It does so in a superb way by showing differences and similarities within the left, the right, and among religious organisations across four countries: France, Italy, Germany, and the UK. This is cutting edge research, both empirically and theoretically." -Jan Willem Duyvendak, DistinguishedResearch Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam"Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures is an ambitious and innovative book that brings together several approaches to social movements in order to analyse how European publics responded to the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015. It is based on rich and original data that has been collected specifically for the project and analyses whether the events triggered a discursive juncture and a turning point in European political cultures." -FlorenceFaucher, Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po, Centre d'études Européennes et de politique comparée, Paris