Daniele Cantini
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1368340 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniele Cantini |
| PRENOMES | Daniele |
| SOBRENOME | Cantini |
| ASSINATURA | CANTINI D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Research Cluster and Graduate School “Society and Culture in Motion,” Halle, Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6936-066X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Social Anthropology in the Arab World
The making of religion in secular educational spaces — a view from Jordan
Linda Herrera, Educating Egypt
Education is a fundamental pillar of the state-society contract throughout the world, particularly so in societies with disproportionately young populations where its social relevance is heightened, such as Egypt and the wider region in which it sits.Until very recently, Islamic and area studies research have approached education very cautiously and mostly from the angle of religious education.However, in Egypt, as in most countries in the region…
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role
Universities played a central role in Egypt’s 2011 revolution and were heavily affected by the subsequent return to military rule. Egyptian universities have a long history as settings where young activists engage in political action. Today they are institutions with a changing role and scope. The expansion of private, for-profit institutions of higher education over the past decade has called into question the traditional model of public univers…
Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How …
Reforming universities in the Middle East
This article addresses the core-periphery nexus by looking at some of the reform packages proposed in the 2000s in these two pivotal countries in the Middle East, Egypt and Jordan, as well as the resistances they generated. These reform packages include internationalisation and privatisation policies, as well as World Bank–sponsored programmes intended to enhance the higher education sector. These programmes are marked by a high degree of isomorp…
Hanafi Sari and Arvanitis Rigas, Knowledge Production in the Arab World. The impossible promise, London & New York, Routledge, 2016, xvi + 354 p
The topic of knowledge production in the Arab region is gradually becoming part of the research agenda, particularly after the publication of the 2003 Arab Human Development Report that denounced its dire conditions. Sari Hanafi and Rigas Arvanitis, building on previous projects initiated more than ten years ago, take up the challenge of explaining the reasons behind it, with the aim of providing an overarching and complex picture of the actual c…
We Take Care of Our Students
In this article, I discuss the notion of care in the context of private higher education institutions in Egypt. Care is a complex, ambiguous and polysemic concept, which needs to be understood in terms of its logics and practices. The article opens with a discussion of the ways in which care is portrayed by different actors in the context of the October 6 University, an Egyptian for-profit private university on which I carried out ethnographic re…
Youth and Education in the Middle East
The uprisings that were seen throughout the Middle East during 2010 and 2011, make it difficult to over-state the role of educated youth in the region s politics. Daniele Cantini combines an analysis of young people in Jordan, of its relevance and of its perceived crisis, with one which looks at education and the pursuit of knowledge. He thereby highlights the unprecedented rise in youth population and the growth in institutions of higher learnin…
Une université privée égyptienne dans le nouveau marché international de l'enseignement supérieur
As it is the case with migration proper, also when dealing with university students’ movements Egypt represents both sides of the medal – at one time point of departure for many, especially to the USA and different European states, and a receiving country. This paper focuses on the “new” Egyptian private universities, for-profit institutions established since 1996 and that are now mushrooming all over the country, and particularly on the biggest …
Discourses of reforms and questions of citizenship
Jordan, as almost all other countries in the broader Middle Eastern region, has witnessed in the last decades an impressive growth in the higher education sector, both in quantitative terms and in terms of an increased differentiation within the university system itself. Drawing from a fieldwork lasted one year and a half in Amman, between 2003 and 2005, and from subsequent periods of comparative research carried on in Egypt, in this paper I disc…
Being Baha'i in Contemporary Egypt
Following the 2003 reform and the Supreme Court ruling of 16 December 2006, Baha'is of Egypt find it increasingly difficult to have their citizenship rights recognised. This article draws on personal observation and analysis carried out in the context of broader research on Egyptian citizenship. I will introduce the condition of Baha'is in this country, from a historical and legal perspective, before starting an overall analysis of what being an …
Une perspective anthropologique
We Take Care of Our Students
In this article, I discuss the notion of care in the context of private higher education institutions in Egypt. Care is a complex, ambiguous and polysemic concept, which needs to be understood in terms of its logics and practices. The article opens with a discussion of the ways in which care is portrayed by different actors in the context of the October 6 University, an Egyptian for-profit private university on which I carried out ethnographic re…
Being Baha'i in Contemporary Egypt
Following the 2003 reform and the Supreme Court ruling of 16 December 2006, Baha'is of Egypt find it increasingly difficult to have their citizenship rights recognised. This article draws on personal observation and analysis carried out in the context of broader research on Egyptian citizenship. I will introduce the condition of Baha'is in this country, from a historical and legal perspective, before starting an overall analysis of what being an …
Une université privée égyptienne dans le nouveau marché international de l'enseignement supérieur
As it is the case with migration proper, also when dealing with university students’ movements Egypt represents both sides of the medal – at one time point of departure for many, especially to the USA and different European states, and a receiving country. This paper focuses on the “new” Egyptian private universities, for-profit institutions established since 1996 and that are now mushrooming all over the country, and particularly on the biggest …
Discourses of reforms and questions of citizenship
Jordan, as almost all other countries in the broader Middle Eastern region, has witnessed in the last decades an impressive growth in the higher education sector, both in quantitative terms and in terms of an increased differentiation within the university system itself. Drawing from a fieldwork lasted one year and a half in Amman, between 2003 and 2005, and from subsequent periods of comparative research carried on in Egypt, in this paper I disc…
Une perspective anthropologique
Being Baha'i in Contemporary Egypt
Following the 2003 reform and the Supreme Court ruling of 16 December 2006, Baha'is of Egypt find it increasingly difficult to have their citizenship rights recognised. This article draws on personal observation and analysis carried out in the context of broader research on Egyptian citizenship. I will introduce the condition of Baha'is in this country, from a historical and legal perspective, before starting an overall analysis of what being an …
Discourses of reforms and questions of citizenship
Jordan, as almost all other countries in the broader Middle Eastern region, has witnessed in the last decades an impressive growth in the higher education sector, both in quantitative terms and in terms of an increased differentiation within the university system itself. Drawing from a fieldwork lasted one year and a half in Amman, between 2003 and 2005, and from subsequent periods of comparative research carried on in Egypt, in this paper I disc…
Une université privée égyptienne dans le nouveau marché international de l'enseignement supérieur
As it is the case with migration proper, also when dealing with university students’ movements Egypt represents both sides of the medal – at one time point of departure for many, especially to the USA and different European states, and a receiving country. This paper focuses on the “new” Egyptian private universities, for-profit institutions established since 1996 and that are now mushrooming all over the country, and particularly on the biggest …
Youth and Education in the Middle East
The uprisings that were seen throughout the Middle East during 2010 and 2011, make it difficult to over-state the role of educated youth in the region s politics. Daniele Cantini combines an analysis of young people in Jordan, of its relevance and of its perceived crisis, with one which looks at education and the pursuit of knowledge. He thereby highlights the unprecedented rise in youth population and the growth in institutions of higher learnin…
We Take Care of Our Students
In this article, I discuss the notion of care in the context of private higher education institutions in Egypt. Care is a complex, ambiguous and polysemic concept, which needs to be understood in terms of its logics and practices. The article opens with a discussion of the ways in which care is portrayed by different actors in the context of the October 6 University, an Egyptian for-profit private university on which I carried out ethnographic re…
Reforming universities in the Middle East
This article addresses the core-periphery nexus by looking at some of the reform packages proposed in the 2000s in these two pivotal countries in the Middle East, Egypt and Jordan, as well as the resistances they generated. These reform packages include internationalisation and privatisation policies, as well as World Bank–sponsored programmes intended to enhance the higher education sector. These programmes are marked by a high degree of isomorp…
Hanafi Sari and Arvanitis Rigas, Knowledge Production in the Arab World. The impossible promise, London & New York, Routledge, 2016, xvi + 354 p
The topic of knowledge production in the Arab region is gradually becoming part of the research agenda, particularly after the publication of the 2003 Arab Human Development Report that denounced its dire conditions. Sari Hanafi and Rigas Arvanitis, building on previous projects initiated more than ten years ago, take up the challenge of explaining the reasons behind it, with the aim of providing an overarching and complex picture of the actual c…
Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How …
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role
Universities played a central role in Egypt’s 2011 revolution and were heavily affected by the subsequent return to military rule. Egyptian universities have a long history as settings where young activists engage in political action. Today they are institutions with a changing role and scope. The expansion of private, for-profit institutions of higher education over the past decade has called into question the traditional model of public univers…
Linda Herrera, Educating Egypt
Education is a fundamental pillar of the state-society contract throughout the world, particularly so in societies with disproportionately young populations where its social relevance is heightened, such as Egypt and the wider region in which it sits.Until very recently, Islamic and area studies research have approached education very cautiously and mostly from the angle of religious education.However, in Egypt, as in most countries in the region…
The making of religion in secular educational spaces — a view from Jordan
Social Anthropology in the Arab World
Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 obras) · Social science (5 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · Ethnography (3 obras)