Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Together with Emilia Meini, Oscar examines Fratelli d'Italia and the ways demographic fears and great replacement narratives are adapted as the party moves from the political margins into government.

Also with me today, Alberta Giorgi, Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bergamo.

In her chapter, she examines the online circulation and normalization of great replacement narratives in Italy and France.

with particular attention to something especially interesting for our discussion today, namely the role played by science, statistics, demographic expertise in legitimizing these narratives.