Joseph P Helou
Biographic Data
| ID | 5897505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph P Helou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph P |
| FAMILY NAME | Helou |
| SIGNATURE | HELOU J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lebanese American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2483-3069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Securitizing the French other
This article investigates how far-right political rhetoric in France contributed to the securitization of Muslim identity, thereby impacting French citizens of Algerian descent as the predominant group among the immigrants of North-African origin. By analyzing the discourse and frames adopted in the speeches of the leaders of the Rassemblement National (RN) Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella and their coverage on French television networks such as…
Elite labor mobility
This study explores the factors influencing elite labor migration among Lebanese youth to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). By examining the roles of social networks, societal norms, social expectations, and differentiated pull factors, the research unpacks the complex interplay of personal, societal, and structural influences shaping migration decisions. The findings reveal that migration is driven by more than ec…
The mediation of maritime borders between states at loggerheads
Hezbollah’s Mobilization Strategy
There’s nothing more permanent than temporary solutions
What happens when a country, a population, or at least a segment thereof, navigates in a permanent state of crisis that becomes normalised into their everyday? Engaging with this question, this article analyses the evolution of Lebanon’s post-civil war electricity sector, with a particular focus on the on-going electricity crisis since 2020. We challenge perceptions of the temporary nature of crisis within much of the crisis literature and argue …
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond
The current article serves as a prelude to this collection entitled ‘The Informality of Crisis Situations: Survival Strategies and Modes of Governance’. It introduces the concept of crisis from an everyday perspective. Crises have historically brought significant change to human conditions. However, these matters become visible only years, if not decades, following the crisis in question, whilst the process is an everyday occurrence. As time elap…
Party Practices in the Context of Lebanon’s Sectarian Political System
This article explores why Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) shifted from opposing the dominant political practices in the country after the 1975–90 civil war — bargaining, power-sharing, narrow parochial discourse, and patron-client relations — to adopting them upon its transformation to a political party in 2005. While FPM leaders Michel Aoun and Gebran Bassil bear some blame for the party’s embrace of the sectarian political system, this …
Inter-Communal Relations in the Context of a Sectarian Society
This paper explores why the production of communal fear via demographic and political-economic factors can explain group behavior (here the Maronites of Lebanon) in diverse ethnic, religious and sectarian plural societies rather than a strict reliance on structural and instrumental explanations. It argues that communal fear, deeply entrenched in political, socioeconomic and anthropological interpretations of groups’ fertility rates, migration pat…
Activism, Change and Sectarianism in the Free Patriotic Movement in Lebanon
Party Practices in the Context of Lebanon’s Sectarian Political System
This article explores why Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) shifted from opposing the dominant political practices in the country after the 1975–90 civil war — bargaining, power-sharing, narrow parochial discourse, and patron-client relations — to adopting them upon its transformation to a political party in 2005. While FPM leaders Michel Aoun and Gebran Bassil bear some blame for the party’s embrace of the sectarian political system, this …
Hezbollah’s Mobilization Strategy
There’s nothing more permanent than temporary solutions
What happens when a country, a population, or at least a segment thereof, navigates in a permanent state of crisis that becomes normalised into their everyday? Engaging with this question, this article analyses the evolution of Lebanon’s post-civil war electricity sector, with a particular focus on the on-going electricity crisis since 2020. We challenge perceptions of the temporary nature of crisis within much of the crisis literature and argue …
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond
The current article serves as a prelude to this collection entitled ‘The Informality of Crisis Situations: Survival Strategies and Modes of Governance’. It introduces the concept of crisis from an everyday perspective. Crises have historically brought significant change to human conditions. However, these matters become visible only years, if not decades, following the crisis in question, whilst the process is an everyday occurrence. As time elap…
Inter-Communal Relations in the Context of a Sectarian Society
This paper explores why the production of communal fear via demographic and political-economic factors can explain group behavior (here the Maronites of Lebanon) in diverse ethnic, religious and sectarian plural societies rather than a strict reliance on structural and instrumental explanations. It argues that communal fear, deeply entrenched in political, socioeconomic and anthropological interpretations of groups’ fertility rates, migration pat…
Activism, Change and Sectarianism in the Free Patriotic Movement in Lebanon
Inter-Communal Relations in the Context of a Sectarian Society
This paper explores why the production of communal fear via demographic and political-economic factors can explain group behavior (here the Maronites of Lebanon) in diverse ethnic, religious and sectarian plural societies rather than a strict reliance on structural and instrumental explanations. It argues that communal fear, deeply entrenched in political, socioeconomic and anthropological interpretations of groups’ fertility rates, migration pat…
Party Practices in the Context of Lebanon’s Sectarian Political System
This article explores why Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) shifted from opposing the dominant political practices in the country after the 1975–90 civil war — bargaining, power-sharing, narrow parochial discourse, and patron-client relations — to adopting them upon its transformation to a political party in 2005. While FPM leaders Michel Aoun and Gebran Bassil bear some blame for the party’s embrace of the sectarian political system, this …
Hezbollah’s Mobilization Strategy
There’s nothing more permanent than temporary solutions
What happens when a country, a population, or at least a segment thereof, navigates in a permanent state of crisis that becomes normalised into their everyday? Engaging with this question, this article analyses the evolution of Lebanon’s post-civil war electricity sector, with a particular focus on the on-going electricity crisis since 2020. We challenge perceptions of the temporary nature of crisis within much of the crisis literature and argue …
Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond
The current article serves as a prelude to this collection entitled ‘The Informality of Crisis Situations: Survival Strategies and Modes of Governance’. It introduces the concept of crisis from an everyday perspective. Crises have historically brought significant change to human conditions. However, these matters become visible only years, if not decades, following the crisis in question, whilst the process is an everyday occurrence. As time elap…
Elite labor mobility
This study explores the factors influencing elite labor migration among Lebanese youth to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). By examining the roles of social networks, societal norms, social expectations, and differentiated pull factors, the research unpacks the complex interplay of personal, societal, and structural influences shaping migration decisions. The findings reveal that migration is driven by more than ec…
The mediation of maritime borders between states at loggerheads
Securitizing the French other
This article investigates how far-right political rhetoric in France contributed to the securitization of Muslim identity, thereby impacting French citizens of Algerian descent as the predominant group among the immigrants of North-African origin. By analyzing the discourse and frames adopted in the speeches of the leaders of the Rassemblement National (RN) Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella and their coverage on French television networks such as…
Middle East Politics and Society (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (3 works)