Publications
Overview
Monograph

Daniele Cantini - Youth and Education in the Middle East. Shaping Identity and Politics in Jordan
2016
Youth and Education in the Middle East. Shaping Identity and Politics in Jordan. London: I.B. Tauris
Reviewed by Vincent Romani in Revue d’Etudes sur le Monde Musulmanes et la Méditerranée 149 https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/12485
Reviewed by Tariq Tell and Jocelyn DeJong in Contemporary Arab Affairs Vol. 11 No. 1-2, March-June 2018 (pp. 299-302) http://caa.ucpress.edu/content/11/1-2/299
and in Idafat: al-majallah al-arabiyya li-l-Ulum al-Ijtima’iyya [Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology] Vol. 40, 2017 http://www.caus.org.lb/Home/publication_popup.php?ID=5496&MediaID=2
Reviewed in International Sociology, Vol. 33 Issue 5, September 2018, pp. 638-640 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0268580918792148a
In the Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, Vol. 33 No. 2, 2017 pp. 91-95 https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ajames/33/2/33_91/_article/-char/en and in the Middle East Media and Books Reviews Online, Vol. 4 Issue 11, November 2016 http://middleeastreviewsonline.com/membr_review/youth-and-education-in-the-middle-east-shaping-identity-and-politics-in-jordan/
Edited volumes

Bounded Knowledge: Doctoral Studies in Egypt

Rethinking politics of higher education. Ethnographic Perspectives

Intag al-Ma’rifa fi al-Jami’at al-Misriyya. Idafat: al-Majallah al-Arabiyya li-l-Ulum al-Ijtima´yya

Religious belonging and life-worlds. Ethnographies on subjectivity and Islam.
2021
Bounded Knowledge: Doctoral Studies in Egypt. Cairo/New York: American University in Cairo Press. https://aucpress.com/product/bounded-knowledge/
2018
Intag al-Ma’rifa fi al-Jami’at al-Misriyya [Wissensproduktion an Ägyptischen Universitäten]. Idafat: al-majallah al-arabiyya li-l-Ulum al-Ijtima’iyya [Idafat: die arabische Zeitschrift für Soziologie] (Sonderheft) 41-42, pp. 13-150. Open access on the website of the journal.
Rethinking politics of higher education: Ethnographic Perspectives. Paperback edition 2018 with Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1111-rethinking-private-higher-education
2016
Rethinking politics of higher education: Ethnographic Perspectives. Leiden: Brill (Studies in Critical Social Sciences). https://brill.com/view/title/31602
2014
Religious belonging and life-worlds. Ethnographies on subjectivity and Islam. La Ricerca Folklorica issue 69, 116 pp. Co-editor (with Paola Abenante) https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40160255
2010
Stranieri a Modena, l’altra storia. Il livello di integrazione in “zona Tempio” [Foreigners in Modena, the other story. The level of integration in “zona Tempio”], editor, I Quaderni del Ferrari [the Ferrari Papers], n. 33, pp. 108. Avaliable in open access.
Articles published in peer-reviewed journals
2021
Chronicles: Research in the Dock. Oriente Moderno, 101: 432-452 (with Daniela Melfa, Irene Bono, Béatrice Hibou, Elisabetta Brighi, Lorenzo Casini) https://brill.com/view/journals/ormo/101/3/article-p432_5.xml
2019
Reforming universities in the Middle East – trends and contestations from Egypt and Jordan. LATISS (Learning & Teaching) 12 (1): 74-92. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/latiss/12/1/latiss120105.xml
2018
Intag al-Ma’rifa fi mustawa al-Doktorah fi al-Ulum al-Insaniyya wa al-Ijtima’iyya fi al-Jami’at al-Masriyya [Wissensproduktion an der Promotionsebene in Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften an ägyptischen Universitäten]. Idafat: al-majallah al-arabiyya li-l-Ulum al-Ijtima’iyya 41-42: 13-30. (open access )
2017
We take care of our students: Private universities and politics of care in Egypt. Ethics and Social Welfare 11 (3): 261-276 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17496535.2017.1300304
2014
The University and the formation of subjectivity and of religious belonging: a case study from Amman, Jordan, La Ricerca Folklorica, 69, pp. 105-116. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43897030
2014
Life-worlds and religious commitment: ethnographic perspectives on subjectivity and Islam, with Paola Abenante, La Ricerca Folklorica, 69, pp. 3-19. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43897023
2014
Une université privée égyptienne dans le nouveau marché international de l’enseignement supérieur [Eine private ägyptische Universität in der globale Markt der Hochschulen]. Cahiers de la Recherce sur l'Education et les Savoirs, 13, pp. 167-179. http://cres.revues.org/2641 (open access)
2012
Discourses of reforms and questions of citizenship: the university in Jordan, REMMM (Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée), 131, pp. 151-166. http://remmm.revues.org/7659 (open access)
2012
The paradoxical representations of Europe among Jordanian university students, LOGOS (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Neaples), 5, pp. 39-59 [auf Italienisch]
2012
The relationship between Copts and Muslims in Egypt, CAPYS (Journal of History and Religious Sciences), 3, pp. 27-52 [auf Italienisch]
2009
Being Baha’i in contemporary Egypt. An ethnographic analysis of everyday challenges, Anthropology of the Middle East, vol. 4, n. 2, pp. 34-51. https://doi.org/10.3167/ame.2009.040204
2008
Les relations entre coptes et musulmans dans la littérature égyptienne contemporaine: une perspective anthropologique [Die Beziehungen zwischen Kopten und Muslimen in der gegenwärtigen ägyptischen Literatur : eine anthropologische Perspektive], Confluences Méditerranée, n. 66, pp. 143-154. https://www.cairn.info/revue-confluences-mediterranee-2008-3-page-143.htm
Book chapters (*reviewed)
2022
* Social, ethical and cultural responsibility as core values for doctoral researchers in the 21st century. In M Nerad et al. (Eds.), Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education. University College of London Press.
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/176624# (open access)
2021
* Seeing Social Change Through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011–2018. In Yasmine Berriane, Annuska Derks, Aymon Kreil, Dorothea Lüddeckens (eds.) Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation: How to Make Sense of Change. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-65067-4_3.pdf (open access)
* Doctoral studies in Egypt: an introduction. In Cantini, Daniele (ed.) Bounded Knowledge: Doctoral Studies in Egypt. Cairo/New York: American University in Cairo Press, 1-31.
* Doctoral studies in Egypt: a brief sketch of its political history. In Ibid., 33-50.
2018
* Romantic Love and Finding a Place in Life: Jordanian university students and their loving subjectivities. In Maffi, Irene, Kreil, Aymon and Corinne Fortier (eds.) Reinventing Love? Gender, Intimacy and Romance in the Arab World. Frankfurt: Peter Lang (Middle East, Social and Cultural Studies Series), 141-163. https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783034327817/chapter-008.xhtml
2016
*. Private Universities in Egypt facing social and political change. In Cantini, Daniele, ed., Rethinking politics of higher education. Leiden: Brill, pp. 131-157 https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004291508/B9789004291508-s007.xml
*. Introduction: rethinking private higher education – ethnographic perspectives. In Cantini, Daniele, ed., Rethinking politics of higher education. Leiden: Brill, pp. 1-26 https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004291508/B9789004291508-s002.xml?lang=en
Università e cambiamento politico e sociale in Egitto (2011-2016). In Fabio Viti, ed., Variazioni Africane. Modena: Il Fiorino, pp. 45-66
2012
*. Describing religious practices among university students in the Middle East. A case study from the University of Jordan, Amman, in Dupret, Baudouin, Thomas Pierret, Paulo Pinto, and Kathrine Spellman, eds., Ethnographies of Islam, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 115-123.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgtj5
2010
*. Des nouveaux riches aux jeunes martyrs. Les évolutions de la migration de travail égyptienne au prisme de ses représentations médiatiques [from the new riches to the young martyrs. The evolutions of Egyptian working migration as seen through its mediatic representations], with Lucile Grunz, Chroniques Egyptiennes 2008, edited by Iman Farag, Cairo: Cedej, pp. 79-99.
Livello di integrazione degli stranieri in “zona Tempio” [The level of integration of foreigners in “zona Tempio”], in Stranieri a Modena, l’altra storia. Il livello di integrazione in “zona Tempio” [Foreigners in Modena, the other story. The level of integration in “zona Tempio”], editor, I Quaderni del Ferrari, n. 33, pp. 33-79.
2008
Les relations entre coptes et musulmans dans la littérature égyptienne contemporaine: une perspective anthropologique [the relations between Copts and Muslims in the contemporary Egyptian literature: an anthropological perspective], in Pierre Blanc, editor, Chrétiens d’Orient, Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 141-152
2007
I giovani studenti giordani di fronte al lavoro. Un caso studio da Amman, Giordania [Young university students facing work. A case study from Amman, Jordan], in F. Viti, ed., Antropologia dei rapporti di dipendenza personale [Anthropology of the relations of personal dependence], Modena: Il Fiorino, Quaderni del Laboratorio di Etnologia/2
Working Papers
2019
1*. Societal, political and cultural change and the role of the researcher. Revisiting Forces and Forms of Doctoral Education Worldwide website https://www.doctoral-education.info/dl/Workgroup-5_Societal-Political-and-Cultural-Change-and-the-Role-of-Researcher.pdf
2. Country Report: Egypt. Revisiting Forces and Forms of Doctoral Education Worldwide website https://www.doctoral-education.info/dl/Country-Description-Egypt.pdf
2015
3*. October 6 University: the first Egyptian private university. Arab Higher Education website http://arabhighered.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Cantini-October-6.pdf
2013
4. Questions of love and social acceptability among young Jordanians. Online working paper, 22, Graduate School for Society and Culture in Motion, MLU Halle/Wittenberg. http://webdoc2.urz.uni-halle.de/dl/290/pub/Online_Working_Paper_22_Cantini.pdf
2012
5. Political activism and the Palestinian cause in the Jordanian higher education system: an ethnographic account. Online Working Paper, 18, Graduate School for Society and Culture in Motion, MLU Halle/Wittenberg. http://webdoc2.urz.uni-halle.de/dl/290/pub/Online%20Working%20Paper%2019%20Cantini.pdf
2007
6. “Higher Education as Formation of the Self and Citizenship. An Ethnography of the University Students from Amman, Jordan.” EMIGRA Working Papers,6. http://www.recercat.net/bitstream/handle/2072/179759/emigrawp_6.pdf?sequence=1
Articles and interviews online
2019
No Country for Anthropologists? Ethnographic Research in the Middle East. Allegra Lab (with Aymon Kreil, Mustafa Akcinar, Shirin Naef and Emanuel Schaeublin)
https://allegralaboratory.net/no-country-for-anthropologists/
2017
Le système éducatif au Moyen-Orient – Entretien avec Daniele Cantini. Les Clés du Moyen Orient, 30.11 https://www.lesclesdumoyenorient.com/Entretien-avec-Daniele-Cantini-Le-systeme-educatif-au-Moyen-Orient.html
2017
Postcolonial Legacies, Scholarly Mobility and Research Capacity Building – Interview with Daniele Cantini. TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research http://trafo.hypotheses.org/6955
2015
Wissenschaftskultur nach der Revolution: Ägyptische Universitäten im Wandel. Weltweit vor Ort, 01 15 www.maxweberstiftung.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Magazin/Magazin_MWS_01_2015_web.pdf
2013
On Violence, Protests & the University’s Role in Shaping Jordan’s Citizens. Al-Muftah http://muftah.org/on-violence-protests-the-university-in-jordan/