Helman
Biographic Data
| ID | 8943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helman |
| FAMILY NAME | Helman |
| SIGNATURE | HELMAN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6844-9547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Making of a Work-ready Individual
A neoliberal policy ideal, workfare, aims to transform the long-term unemployed into 'work-ready' individuals. Studies of workfare examine their use of technologies of agency and coercion, but do not sufficiently delve into the political economy of time's role in these technologies. Based on 9 months of participant observation in an Israeli workfare program, this article analyzes how it exploited time and temporality to transform social assistanc…
The rise, demise, and rebirth of a workfare programme in Israel
In this article, I present an analysis of the conditions that led to the success of an NGO coalition to challenge and bring about the suspension of a workfare program in Israel. I compare the Israeli contention against workfare with similar mobilizations that took place in France and Germany, in order to identify conditions that may enhance challenges to the politics of conditionality. I argue that the success of collective action against a workf…
Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience
The translation perspective explores the travel of policy ideas, programmes and practices across international boundaries, focusing on the process through which interpretative agents introduce and adjust borrowed policy items to a new policy context. Current research emphasises the significance of local networks' support for translation's efficacy. However, we know little about how such networks are maintained and stabilized over time or how chan…
Turning Welfare-Reliant Women into Entrepreneurs
This article shows how two different subjectivities promoted by neoliberal discourses—that of the entrepreneur and that of the docile workers—are interwoven in the discourse of coaches leading employment readiness workshops conducted in a workfare program in Israel. Three main discursive strategies, “between entrepreneurialism and docility,” “rehearsing employability: the labor market as a second family,” and “happiness and positive psychology,” …
Global Social Movements
Contrary to conventional wisdom, global social movements are not a new phenomenon. They are part of the globalization of contentious politics dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. During the last quarter of the twentieth century these movements became prominent and vivid players in the international, national, and local arena (Boli and Thomas 1999; Della Porta et al. 1999; Guidry et al. 2000; Keck and Sikkink 1998; Smith et al. 1997)
Unravelling the Politics of Activation Reforms
Contemporary active labour market (ALM) reforms are pivotal in the reorganization of the welfare state as they challenge and threaten some of the fundamental achievements of labour in capitalist societies: social programmes and entitlements that compensate for unemployment, and governance arrangements in which the social partners share authority and responsibility with the state. Consequently, ALM reforms may give raise to social unrest and polit…
Challenging the Israeli Occupation Through Testimony and Confession
Les Femmes en noir
Le mouvement de protestation israélien, les Femmes en noir, est étudié en se centrant sur le mode de protestation du mouvement, utilisé comme un prisme au travers duquel est analysée la manière dont la structure, les contenus et les objectifs de la manifestation contestent l’ordre sociopolitique et celui du genre. L’article analyse la manifestation silencieuse des Femmes en noir à Jérusalem et la caractérise, suivant en cela Handelman (1990), com…
Soul Citizenship
Based on the experiences of the Black Hebrews in Israel, this article introduces "soul citizenship," an alternate discourse that asserts the right of individuals and groups to match their self-defined identities with existing states. After years of living in the Jewish State as an illegal yet tolerated presence, the African Hebrew Israelite Community (AHIC) gained temporary residence status, or according to the postnational model of membership, d…
Monologic Results of Dialogue
Since the 1980s, many scholars have focused on the promise that dialogue holds to get beyond essentializing discourses. Based on the observation of a yearlong dialogue intergroup encounter between two groups of Israeli citizens, Jewish and Palestinian, this article shows that dialogic encounters between groups in a situation of structural inequality and domination may solidify essentialist discourses of culture and identity. The interpretative an…
Negotiating obligations, creating rights
This article examines the ways in which modes of inclusion in the community of citizens are constitutive of political identities and frame the kinds of contestations and claims of individuals and groups vis‐à‐vis the state's agents. It analyses the emergence of selective conscientious to warfare and military service in Israel during the Lebanon war (1982–85). The article is based on the interpretative analysis of interviews with 66 individuals wh…
Frauen in Schwarz
Women in Black
The Israeli protest movement 'Women in Black' is studied by focusing on the movement's mode of protest, which is used as a prism through which to analyse the manner in which the structure, contents and goals of protest challenge the socio-political and gender orders. The article analyses the protest vigil of 'Women in Black' in Jerusalem, and characterizes it, following Handelman (1990), as a minimalist public event. After examining and analysing…
Women in Black
The Israeli protest movement 'Women in Black' is studied by focusing on the movement's mode of protest, which is used as a prism through which to analyse the manner in which the structure, contents and goals of protest challenge the socio-political and gender orders. The article analyses the protest vigil of 'Women in Black' in Jerusalem, and characterizes it, following Handelman (1990), as a minimalist public event. After examining and analysing…
Soul Citizenship
Based on the experiences of the Black Hebrews in Israel, this article introduces "soul citizenship," an alternate discourse that asserts the right of individuals and groups to match their self-defined identities with existing states. After years of living in the Jewish State as an illegal yet tolerated presence, the African Hebrew Israelite Community (AHIC) gained temporary residence status, or according to the postnational model of membership, d…
Negotiating obligations, creating rights
This article examines the ways in which modes of inclusion in the community of citizens are constitutive of political identities and frame the kinds of contestations and claims of individuals and groups vis‐à‐vis the state's agents. It analyses the emergence of selective conscientious to warfare and military service in Israel during the Lebanon war (1982–85). The article is based on the interpretative analysis of interviews with 66 individuals wh…
Turning Welfare-Reliant Women into Entrepreneurs
This article shows how two different subjectivities promoted by neoliberal discourses—that of the entrepreneur and that of the docile workers—are interwoven in the discourse of coaches leading employment readiness workshops conducted in a workfare program in Israel. Three main discursive strategies, “between entrepreneurialism and docility,” “rehearsing employability: the labor market as a second family,” and “happiness and positive psychology,” …
Unravelling the Politics of Activation Reforms
Contemporary active labour market (ALM) reforms are pivotal in the reorganization of the welfare state as they challenge and threaten some of the fundamental achievements of labour in capitalist societies: social programmes and entitlements that compensate for unemployment, and governance arrangements in which the social partners share authority and responsibility with the state. Consequently, ALM reforms may give raise to social unrest and polit…
Challenging the Israeli Occupation Through Testimony and Confession
The Making of a Work-ready Individual
A neoliberal policy ideal, workfare, aims to transform the long-term unemployed into 'work-ready' individuals. Studies of workfare examine their use of technologies of agency and coercion, but do not sufficiently delve into the political economy of time's role in these technologies. Based on 9 months of participant observation in an Israeli workfare program, this article analyzes how it exploited time and temporality to transform social assistanc…
The rise, demise, and rebirth of a workfare programme in Israel
In this article, I present an analysis of the conditions that led to the success of an NGO coalition to challenge and bring about the suspension of a workfare program in Israel. I compare the Israeli contention against workfare with similar mobilizations that took place in France and Germany, in order to identify conditions that may enhance challenges to the politics of conditionality. I argue that the success of collective action against a workf…
Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience
The translation perspective explores the travel of policy ideas, programmes and practices across international boundaries, focusing on the process through which interpretative agents introduce and adjust borrowed policy items to a new policy context. Current research emphasises the significance of local networks' support for translation's efficacy. However, we know little about how such networks are maintained and stabilized over time or how chan…
Women in Black
The Israeli protest movement 'Women in Black' is studied by focusing on the movement's mode of protest, which is used as a prism through which to analyse the manner in which the structure, contents and goals of protest challenge the socio-political and gender orders. The article analyses the protest vigil of 'Women in Black' in Jerusalem, and characterizes it, following Handelman (1990), as a minimalist public event. After examining and analysing…
Frauen in Schwarz
Negotiating obligations, creating rights
This article examines the ways in which modes of inclusion in the community of citizens are constitutive of political identities and frame the kinds of contestations and claims of individuals and groups vis‐à‐vis the state's agents. It analyses the emergence of selective conscientious to warfare and military service in Israel during the Lebanon war (1982–85). The article is based on the interpretative analysis of interviews with 66 individuals wh…
Monologic Results of Dialogue
Since the 1980s, many scholars have focused on the promise that dialogue holds to get beyond essentializing discourses. Based on the observation of a yearlong dialogue intergroup encounter between two groups of Israeli citizens, Jewish and Palestinian, this article shows that dialogic encounters between groups in a situation of structural inequality and domination may solidify essentialist discourses of culture and identity. The interpretative an…
Soul Citizenship
Based on the experiences of the Black Hebrews in Israel, this article introduces "soul citizenship," an alternate discourse that asserts the right of individuals and groups to match their self-defined identities with existing states. After years of living in the Jewish State as an illegal yet tolerated presence, the African Hebrew Israelite Community (AHIC) gained temporary residence status, or according to the postnational model of membership, d…
Les Femmes en noir
Le mouvement de protestation israélien, les Femmes en noir, est étudié en se centrant sur le mode de protestation du mouvement, utilisé comme un prisme au travers duquel est analysée la manière dont la structure, les contenus et les objectifs de la manifestation contestent l’ordre sociopolitique et celui du genre. L’article analyse la manifestation silencieuse des Femmes en noir à Jérusalem et la caractérise, suivant en cela Handelman (1990), com…
Challenging the Israeli Occupation Through Testimony and Confession
Global Social Movements
Contrary to conventional wisdom, global social movements are not a new phenomenon. They are part of the globalization of contentious politics dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. During the last quarter of the twentieth century these movements became prominent and vivid players in the international, national, and local arena (Boli and Thomas 1999; Della Porta et al. 1999; Guidry et al. 2000; Keck and Sikkink 1998; Smith et al. 1997)
Unravelling the Politics of Activation Reforms
Contemporary active labour market (ALM) reforms are pivotal in the reorganization of the welfare state as they challenge and threaten some of the fundamental achievements of labour in capitalist societies: social programmes and entitlements that compensate for unemployment, and governance arrangements in which the social partners share authority and responsibility with the state. Consequently, ALM reforms may give raise to social unrest and polit…
Turning Welfare-Reliant Women into Entrepreneurs
This article shows how two different subjectivities promoted by neoliberal discourses—that of the entrepreneur and that of the docile workers—are interwoven in the discourse of coaches leading employment readiness workshops conducted in a workfare program in Israel. Three main discursive strategies, “between entrepreneurialism and docility,” “rehearsing employability: the labor market as a second family,” and “happiness and positive psychology,” …
Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience
The translation perspective explores the travel of policy ideas, programmes and practices across international boundaries, focusing on the process through which interpretative agents introduce and adjust borrowed policy items to a new policy context. Current research emphasises the significance of local networks' support for translation's efficacy. However, we know little about how such networks are maintained and stabilized over time or how chan…
The rise, demise, and rebirth of a workfare programme in Israel
In this article, I present an analysis of the conditions that led to the success of an NGO coalition to challenge and bring about the suspension of a workfare program in Israel. I compare the Israeli contention against workfare with similar mobilizations that took place in France and Germany, in order to identify conditions that may enhance challenges to the politics of conditionality. I argue that the success of collective action against a workf…
The Making of a Work-ready Individual
A neoliberal policy ideal, workfare, aims to transform the long-term unemployed into 'work-ready' individuals. Studies of workfare examine their use of technologies of agency and coercion, but do not sufficiently delve into the political economy of time's role in these technologies. Based on 9 months of participant observation in an Israeli workfare program, this article analyzes how it exploited time and temporality to transform social assistanc…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works)