| Gabriele de Angelis
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E-mail: gabriele.deangelis@fcsh.unl.pt, gabriele.deangelis@gmail.com
Current Professional Status
Research Fellow at IFL with funding from FCT
Areas of Specialization
Theory of Political Institutions, Political Communication, Environmental Protest
Main Areas of Expertise
Political Theory, History of Sociology, Social Systems Theory
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current research interests
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My current research interests focus on the interplay of ethical principles and political behaviour.
Political institutions coordinate actors behaviour by a normative frame made of rules of conduct
and ethical principles. Nevertheless, political behaviour is only insufficiently shaped either by
strategic behaviour or by explicit rules like norms and laws. Most of the actions performed in the
sphere of politics rest on assumptions and expectations that belong by and large to the actors’ tacit
knowledge of significant institutional frames. Despite the scepticism of current political theory towards the rhetoric of political ethics, appeals to ethics in political language are to be seen as part of a “grammar”
that constitutes the basic infrastructure of political communication.
After reconstructing a theory of the “tacit ethics” of political institutions, my research aims to
translate this theory into a programme of empirical research on global justice by analysing the concepts of justice in global protest movements. |
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ongoing research projects
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- Global Justice and International Terrorism
- Political Institutions, Political Behaviour, Political Language
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recent publications and lectures
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Recent Articles
Chapters
- The Social Dramaturgy of Risk Communication: The Case of the LNG Tanker Galleon off the coast of Livorno, Italy, to be published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Italo-American Conference, William Paterson University, NJ, John Calandra Institute, CUNY, NYC.
- La flessibilità in America. Elementi per comprendere la specificità del dibattito statunitense [Flexible Workplaces in America], in Mario Aldo Toscano, ed. (2007), Forme di lavoro, forme di vita. Memorie comparative sulla flessibilità. Milano: Jaca Book, 137-159.
- Religion and the Integration of Society. Sociological Perspectives on Monotheism and Polytheism, in Tilo Schabert, Matthias Riedl, eds. (forthcoming), God or Gods – Gott oder Götter. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
- Il linguaggio e i fondamenti della socialità: Habermas e Wittgenstein [Language and the Foundations of Socialisation] in Luigi Muzzetto (Hg.), Wittgenstein e le scienze sociali, Carocci, Roma 2007 (forthcoming).
- La comunicazione della protesta: I “nuovi movimenti” e la formazione della coscienza pubblica [The Communication of Protest: New Social Movements and Public Opinion], in Loretoni, Anna (Hg.), La democrazia partecipativa, Pisa: Felici 2007 (forthcoming).
- La costruzione sociale della malattia: una prospettiva sociologica [The Social Construction of Health and Illness: A Sociological Perspective], in Rita Biancheri, ed. (2007), Donne e salute. Una prospettiva di genere, Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 132-143.
- Jürgen Habermas: teoria del discorso e razionalità dell’agire [J.H.: Discourse-Theory and Action Rationality], in Mario Aldo Toscano, ed. (2006), Introduzione alla sociologia. Milano: Franco Angeli, 385-393.
- Talcott Parsons e Niklas Luhmann: Sociologia come teoria dei sistemi [T.P. and N.L.: Sociology as a Theory of Social Systems], in Mario Aldo Toscano, ed. (2006), Introduzione alla sociologia. Milano: Franco Angeli, 351-364.
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former positions
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January 2005-December 2007: Teaching Fellow of Sociology at the School of Medicine, University of Pisa, Italy.
September 9th, 2003: “Perfezionamento” (PhD) in Political Philosophy at SSSUP.
October 2004-September 2006: Post doctoral research fellow in Political Philosophy, Sant’Anna School of Advances Studies (SSSUP), Pisa, Italy.
Education
December 10th,1999: “Grundständige Promotion” in Philosophy and Sociology at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg (Germany).
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