Francesco Gallino is a teacher and postdoctoral researcher in the history of political thought at the University of Turin (Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società) and an associated researcher at the Institute of Psychodynamics of Work – IPDT. He has carried out research stays at the University of Paris-Nanterre and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and he is currently a “guest researcher” at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Bordeaux. His studies mainly focus on the problem of political obedience in 19th century French political ^thought . His first book ( Tocqueville, il carcere, la democrazia , Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020) is devoted to Alexis de Tocqueville's studies on prison systems; he underlines in particular how Tocqueville interprets prisons above all as “anthropotechnical” vectors of lasting modification of the attitudes of individuals, thus attributing theoretical and political relevance to penitentiary systems. For several years, he has been working on the psychological and political thought of Gustave Le Bon. His book on this subject ( Inconscio e politica in Gustave Le Bon , Roma, Aracne, 2021) focuses on the notion of "automatism" in Le Bon's work on neurology, ethology and political psychology. His research also focuses on the history of prisons, and the relevance of the category of voluntary servitude in contemporary studies of workplace psychopathology. He has published essays in English ( The Tocqueville Review , Surveillance and Society , TTR – Translation, Terminology, Writing ), in Italian ( Filosofia Politica , Storia del pensiero politico , Teoria Politica , Cambio ) and in French ( Worker , Cahiers La Boétie ).

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Francesco Gallino is a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher in History of Political Thought at the University of Turin (Department of Cultures, Politics and Society) and an “associate researcher” at the Institute of Psychodynamics of Work – IPDT. He has been visiting researcher at the Université Paris Nanterre and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and he is currently invited researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme of Bordeaux, as well as “associate researcher” at the Institut de Psychodynamics of Work – IPDT. His studies mainly focus on the problem of political obedience in the 19th century French political thought. His first book (Tocqueville, il carcere, la democrazia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020) is dedicated to Alexis de Tocqueville's studies of penitentiary systems; it particularly underlines how Tocqueville interprets prisons first and foremost as anthropotechnical vectors of lasting modification of people's attitudes, thus attributing theoretical and political relevance to prison systems. Recently he has been working on the psychological and political thought of Gustave Le Bon. His book Inconscio e politica in Gustave Le Bon (Roma, Aracne, 2021) focuses on the notion of 'automatism' in Le Bon's works on neurology, ethology and political psychology. His research interests also include the history of prisons, and the relevance of the category of voluntary servitude in contemporary studies of labor psychopathology. He has published essays in English (“The Tocqueville Review”, “Surveillance and Society”, “TTR – Translation, Terminology, Writing”), Italian (“Filosofia Politica”, “Storia del pensiero politico”, “Teoria Politica”, “ Cambio”) and French (“Work”, “Cahiers La Boétie”).

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