Silvia Binenti

Dr Silvia Binenti

Early Career Fellow

Extremely Pop: Radical Politics and Everyday Fascism in Italian Pop Culture

This project aims to explore the seemingly oxymoronic nexus between the Italian far-right and mainstream pop culture. More specifically, this research focuses on far-right assemblages of pop-politics and forms of everyday fascism as mediated through material and consumer culture. As the extreme seems to have gone mainstream, codes of the radical right have become more subtle, precarious, and multi-vocal but also more widely spread outside the world of political subcultures

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Areas of interest

Ethnography Geopolitics Politics Popular Music Popular Culture Materialism Human Geography Social Anthropology

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ECF8

Biography

Silvia Binenti is an ethnographer interested in political everydayness. Her current research in popular geopolitics explores the relationship between politics, popular culture, and materiality. She is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences), where she lectures and contributes to teaching across a broad spectrum of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Silvia completed an AHRC-funded PhD in Human Geography at University College London (UCL) in 2024 and holds an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge

Biographical details correct as of 10.09.25