Department of Cultures, Politics and Society

Selected research products

• Published Articles and Essays
   Helled, A., & Pala, C. (2023). “When Nations Adapt: National Resilience between State(s) and Identity(ies)”. Political Studies Review, 1-15). https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299221144620.
   Helled,A. ''Unstable Political We-feelings in Italy and Israel: Cyclical de-civilizing parabolas?'' in La Società Contemporanea – Between civilization and decivilization: the case of Italy, ''Quaderni di Sociologia'', special issue: N° 89, Anno 2022, pp. 133-149.
   Helled, A. Israeli Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: National Habitus, State Actions and Politics, European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, Volume 11 Issue No.1 January 2022 pp.28-54 (published: 25 January 2022).
   Helled, A. The Nationalist Egg and the State-centric Chicken, ''Quaderni di Sociologia'' (April 2021 [Fascicolo 83], online), pp. 157-164.
   Helled, A. L'Habitus Nazionale Israeliano: Una Banalizzazione A Doppio Taglio?, Nazioni e Regioni. Studi e Ricerche sulla Comunità Immaginata, N. 12/ 2018, pp. 7-23.
   Helled, A. The Israeli Electoral State of Mind: Security, Discourse and Leadership as components of the 2015 elections, Quaderni dell'Osservatorio Elettorale, N. 79, Vol. 79, N. 1., June 2018, pp. 71-99.
   Helled, A. Engraving politics: Antagonisms of Social Protest and Peace in 2015 Israeli Legislative Elections, Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review, no. 2/2017, pp. 309-329.

 

• Book Chapters:

 Helled, A. (2022): A complex people-building: Israeli society as a precondition for the populist syndrome? In Rotman, L., Gheorghe D. [ed.s], “Challenges of Modern Israel. Socio-Political Reality: Academic Perspectives”, "Theodor Herzl" Center for Israeli Studies, The National University for Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, Editura Comunicare.ro (online volume), pp. 263-292.
 Helled, A. (2021): Israeli National Habitus and Israeli Historiography: Between Generations and Politicization in Delmotte, F., Gornicka, B. (Ed.s): ''Norbert Elias in Troubled Times: Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century'', Palgrave: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 295-311.

Book-reviews:
 Helled, A. (2022). Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises by Colin Crouch. Acta Sociologica, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221108485.
 Helled, A (2022). Book Review: Israel’s Regime Untangled: Between Democracy and Apartheid by Gal Ariely, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, Democratization, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2022.2092613 (published online: 29 Jun 2022: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2022.2092613.
 Helled, A. (2021). Book Review: The Jewish Contribution to European Integration Sharon Pardo and Hila Zahavi (Eds.). Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. 196 p. € 92 (hardcover). Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 1-2. doi: 10.1017/ipo.2021.21.
 Helled, A. (2020). Book Review: Memory activism: Reimagining the past for the future in Israel-Palestine by Yifat Gutman, ''Nations and Nationalism'', Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2020, pp. 1128-1129, published online: 16 January 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12671.
 Helled, A. (2020). Book Review: Yael Zeira The Revolution Within: State Institutions and Unarmed Resistance in Palestine, Cambridge University Press. 2019, ''Democratization'', winter 2020, Pages 863-865 | published online: 09 Oct 2020.
 Helled, A. (2019). Book Review: Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis by Malešević, Siniša, 2019: ''Acta Sociologica'', published October 8, 2020 Book Review: https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699320964386.
 Helled, A. Book Review: Why Nationalism by Yael Tamir, Princeton, Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, ''Democratization'' (Published online: 04 Dec 2019)

• 1. Storia delle Relazioni internazionali (didattica integrativa)
• 2.Sociologia (didattica integrativa 2021-22, 2022-23)
• 3.EUROPA, CULTURE, IDENTITA'(cultore della materia)

Research topics

Storia delle Relazioni Internazionali 

1. Processi di formazione di identità nazionali (approccio politico-storico e intellettuale)
2. Il modello dello Stato nazionale nell'età globale
3. Storia e politica di Israele e dinamiche regionali
4. Sociologia storica e teoria eliasiana

Academic positions pro-tempore

Dal 2018 Fellow della Fondazione Norbert Elias (Amsterdam)

Socio della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP)

Socio AIS e EAIS (studi su Israele)

Membro di gruppi di sociologia politica e teoria politica Ecpr