{"id":151619,"date":"2025-05-12T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/vincenzo-mele-91119-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:46:39","slug":"vincenzo-mele-91119-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/vincenzo-mele-91119-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincenzo Mele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professore Associato &#8211; Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche | Tel.: 050 2212477 &#8211; Email: vincenzo.mele@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"91119","unipi-persone-nome":"Vincenzo","unipi-persone-cognome":"Mele","unipi-persone-email":"vincenzo.mele@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Vincenzo Mele, PhD, \u00e8 professore associato in sociologia generale al Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Universit\u00e0 di Pisa. Ha conseguito il suo dottorato in co-tutela tra l\u2019Universit\u00e0 di Pisa e l\u2019Universit\u00e0 di Bielefeld in Germania, dove \u00e8 stato borsista DAAD. \u00c8 stato Visiting Professor presso la William Paterson University (USA) e lecturer in sociology dal 2008 al 2012 alla Monmouth University, USA, dove \u00e8 anche stato Faculty Fellow presso l\u2019Institute for Global Understanding. Dal 2022 al 2024 \u00e8 stato coordinatore italiano del ciclo di conferenza di ricerca trilaterale (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft \u2013 Fondation Maison des Sciences de l\u2019Homme \u2013 Villa Vigoni) sul tema \"Georg Simmel: aspetti della ricerca transdisciplinare nelle scienze sociali e della cultura\". Nel secondo semestre del 2024 \u00e8 stato visiting professor presso  il CES (CES Centro de Estudios Sociol\u00f3gicos FCPyS), della UNAM (Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico).<br \/>\r\nAttualmente insegna corsi di Sociologia generale e sociologia della modernit\u00e0 alla laurea triennale in Scienze Politiche (L-36), Immaginario e mutamento sociale alla laurea specialistica in Politica, Istituzioni, Societ\u00e0 (LM-62). Tra i suoi temi di ricerca c\u2019\u00e8 la metropoli come origine della modernit\u00e0 e post-modernit\u00e0, il rapporto tra estetica e sociologia, la teoria sociologica classica e contemporanea, l\u2019immaginario del crimine organizzato e la sociologia degli intellettuali. Ha collaborato all\u2019Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley-Blackwell (diretta da Bryan S. Turner) e ha scritto su numerose riviste di sociologia tra cui \u201cLa Societ\u00e0 degli Individui\u201d. \u201cQuaderni di Teoria Sociale\u201d, \u201cSociologia e Ricerca Sociale\u201d, \u201cJournal of Classical Sociology\u201d, \u201cMax Weber Studies\u201d, \u201cToqueville Review\u201d, \"Sociologica\", \"Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s\", \"Italian Sociological Review\" (IRS). Tra le sue pubblicazioni pi\u00f9 recenti: Fragments of Metropolis. City and Modernity in Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Palgrave 2022; The Material and the Imaginary, in \u201cThe Social Routes of the Imaginary\u201d edited by P.L. Marzo and L. Mori, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, pp. 149-168; L\u2019accademia e il fuori. Il problema dell\u2019intellettuale specializzato in Italia, Orthotes, Napoli 2023 (curatela insieme a Fabio Mengali, Francesco Padovani, Alessia Tortolini); The gangster as \"divine trickster\". Pathways to an archetypal analysis of male imaginary in mass culture, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s N\u00b0 166(4):111-126.  \u00c8 editor in chef della rivista \u201cSimmel Studies. Journal of Sociology and Philosophy of Culture\u201d, direttore del Laboratorio di Estetica Sociologica (SocAesthLab) e coordinatore della Cattedra Messico in Scienze Politiche Unipi\/UNAM.","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"Dipartimento Scienze Politiche, via Collegio Ricci 10, terzo piano.","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"Mercoled\u00ec dalle 12 alle 13 al Polo Piagge (sala professori, durante il corso) e venerd\u00ec dalle 10 alle 13 a Palazzo Ricci.","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2212477","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/vincenzo_mele\/","unipi-persone-cariche":"","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=050342","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=050342&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"Sociologia Generale GSPS-05\/A","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Associato","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp06620","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"<ul class=\"pubblicazioni-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1350227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archetypes and the Iconic Unconscious: Jung, Benjamin, Adorno and the \u201cstrong program\u201d in Cultural Sociology<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1350207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mesianismo y democracia en Walter Benjamin: lecturas entre Europa y Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1343947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Presentaci\u00f3n Crisis democr\u00e1tica y transici\u00f3n socio ecol\u00f3gica<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Viviani, Lorenzo; Mele, Vincenzo - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1311993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The gangster as &quot;divine trickster&quot;. Pathways to an archetypal analysis of male imaginary in mass culture<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1284721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A nonfoundational manifesto for sociological aesthetics. On Helmut Staubmann, Sociology in a New Key. Essays in Social Theory and Aesthetics, Springer, Cham 2022.<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2024 - 1.2 Recensione in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1230107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M. Santoro, Mafia Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press 2022<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2023 - 1.2 Recensione in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1229767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In Search of a Unity or Persistence of Tragedy? On Simmel\u2019s City Writings<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1218368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L&#039;accademia e il fuori. Il problema dell&#039;intellettuale specializzato in Italia<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2023 - 7.1 Curatela)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1218308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L&#039;accademia e il fuori. Il problema dell&#039;intellettuale specializzato in Italia<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2023 - 7.1 Curatela)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1218271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Material and the Imaginary<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2023 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1149961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Review to Enrico Campo, Attention and its crisis in Digital Society, Abington: Routledge, 2022.<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2022 - 1.2 Recensione in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1149960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Adventurer and the Hunter. Simmel and Benjamin on Critique and Experience<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1149959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Tribute to Alessandro Dal Lago<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1149659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fragments of Metropolis. City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo - 2022 - 3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1108858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La rappresentazione dell\u2019universo \u201cno-vax\u201d nella sfera pubblica digitale: una riflessione sul caso del vaccino anti COVID<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mele, Vincenzo; DE TOFFOLI, Matteo; Serafini, Luca; Campo, Enrico - 2021 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-didattica":"<ul class=\"registri-list\"><li>Sociologia - corso dispari (cod. 198QQ) per Laurea in Scienze politiche<br\/><strong>Insegnamenti condivisi\/mutuati:<\/strong><ul class=\"registri-shared\"><li>Sociologia generale (cod. 132QQ) - Laurea Magistrale in Filosofia e forme del sapere<\/li><li>Sociologia generale (cod. 132QQ) - Laurea Magistrale in Filosofia e forme del sapere<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Sociologia della modernit\u00e0 (cod. 332QQ) per Laurea in Scienze politiche<\/li><li>Immaginario e mutamento sociale (cod. 317QQ) per Laurea Magistrale in Istituzioni, politica e societa&#039;<br\/><strong>Insegnamenti condivisi\/mutuati:<\/strong><ul class=\"registri-shared\"><li>Sociologia dell'immaginario (cod. 290QQ) - Laurea Magistrale in Filosofia e forme del sapere<\/li><li>Sociologia dell'immaginario (cod. 290QQ) - Laurea Magistrale in Filosofia e forme del sapere<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>","unipi-persone-codocenze":"","unipi-persone-interessi-ricerca":"","_wpml_word_count":"15","_last_translation_edit_mode":"translation-editor"},"organizzazioni":[3740],"class_list":["post-151619","unipi_persone","type-unipi_persone","status-publish","hentry","organizzazioni-dipartimento-di-scienze-politiche-589999-en"],"email":"vincenzo.mele@unipi.it","telefono":"050 2212477","content_plain":"Professore Associato &#8211; 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