Diego Gambetta

Diego Gambetta (* 1952 in Turin ) is an Italian social scientist. He teaches as a professor of social theory at the European University Institute in Florence. He is a Fellow of Nuffield College of Oxford University . His main interests are the subjects of “trust”, “organized crime” ( Mafia ), “suicide bombings”, “corruption” and the “signs and signals” in social systems .

Gambetta is married and has two children.

academic career

Gambetta received her doctorate from Cambridge, was a research fellow at Kings College , Cambridge , a fellow at All Souls College , Oxford and now teaches as an official fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. In 2010 he held a visiting professorship at the Stanford Humanities Center in Stanford in cooperation with the Department of Political Science and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the FSI (Foreign Service Institute). He taught as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago , Columbia University , ETH Zurich and the Collège de France in Paris.

Fonts (selection)

• With Steffen Hertog: Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education. Cambridge Univ. Press 2016. ISBN 978-1-40088025-6 .
• Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate. Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-15247-9 .
• Streetwise. How Taxi Drivers Establish Customers' Trustworthiness . Russell Sage Foundation, New York 2005, ISBN 0-87154-308-7 . (With Heather Hamill)
• Crimes and Signs: Cracking the Codes of the Underworld . Princeton University Press, 2004.
• as editor: Making Sense of Suicide Missions . Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-929797-5 .
• The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection . Harvard University Press, London 1993, ISBN 0-674-80742-1 .
  • English: The godparents' company: The Sicilian Mafia and their business practices. dtv, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-30417-0 .
• Were they pushed or did they jump? Individual decision mechanisms in education. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-521-10770-9 .

Articles (selection)

• Primo Levi's Last Moments. A new look at the Italian author's tragic death twelve years ago. In: Boston Review. 1999, (full text)
• Reason and Terror. Has 9/11 made it hard to think straight? In: Boston Review. 2004. (full text)

literature

• Jürgen Kaube: Contract killers don't advertise. Review of Diego Gambetta's book: Codes of the Underworld. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. February 7, 2010.

Web links

• Homepage of Diego Gambetta In it: Gambetta: More hedgehog than fox. The common thread in the study of criminals, taxi drivers and suicide bombers . Oxford 2005.
• Diego Gambetta, All Souls College, Oxford University. Short biography
• Against The Grain: Why do men engineer a way into terrorism? Diego Gambetta, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford, explains why engineers are more likely to become terrorists. Interview with Nick Jackson. In: The Independent . March 20, 2008. (online)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cambridge Univ. Press 2016
2. ↑ The economy of criminal service. In: FAZ . June 29, 2011, p. N3.