Research Profile
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte works in the history of political thought with a strong comparative and transnational orientation. Her scholarship moves between intellectual history, conceptual history, political geography, historiography, fascism studies, and the analysis of populism and the radical right.
Research Clusters
1. Geopolitics, space, biopolitics and international order
A major line of work examines how political space is imagined, theorized, and mobilized. This includes studies of Mitteleuropa, Grossraum, imperial order, Friedrich Ratzel, Carl Schmitt, and the geopolitical vocabularies that shaped twentieth-century European politics. Representative works include Il pensiero geopolitico (2014), Denken im Raum (with J. Jureit, 2021) Geo-political Spaces (with U. Jureit, 2025) and later essays on geopolitics, memory, and dystopian literature.
2. Fascism, populism, and the radical right
A second cluster focuses on fascism, National Socialism, conservative revolution, right-wing movements, and populist mobilization. Her work on Julius Evola, Delio Cantimori, the Lega Nord, mass psychology, and anti-European politics studies how myths, memories, and collective identities are translated into political forms. Representative works include Julius Evola. Dal Dadaismo alla Rivoluzione conservatrice (2002); Von der Avantgarde zum Traditionalismus (2003).
3. Intellectual history, historiography and civilizations
A third strand investigates intellectual history in a wider sense: the history of historiography and political languages of civilization. This includes work on Delio Cantimori, as the book Delio Cantimori (2011), Animus Comune. Le lettere di Werner Kaegi e Delio Cantimori (2020). The co-edited book Civilization: Global Histories of a Political Idea (with G. Borgognone 2022) explores how civilizational narratives are used to interpret world order and justify political strategies.
Current Themes
Recent public profiles also point to ongoing interests in liberal internationalism, the history of geopolitics, and research on civilisationism, bringing together historical reconstruction and analysis of present political languages.