Both roads lead to Rome: activist commitment and the identity-structure nexus in CasaPound

Submission to the Inquiry into Extremism in Victoria

“…at schools), and sometimes families often play a central role in individuals' pathways into far-right extremism (Kruglanksi et al, 2020;Blazak, 2001). A study on the Italian far-right group CasaPound (Parker and Veugelers, 2021: 3) found that some activists had become involved through their politicisation in social networks that created a new social 'home' in which they were immersed. Forming social ties and entering supportive networks provides the 'structural pull' from preinvolvement to recruitment.…”