Publications and Talks

Academic publications

• Costantini, G. (2025). “Neoliberal inclusion” and the structural exclusion of syrian refugee children with disabilities from humanitarian education in lebanon. In Forced Migration, Disability and Education (pp. 85-98). Routledge.
• Costantini, G. (2025). “No one cares about children with disabilities!”: Shifting the Narrative and Centering Syrian Refugee Children with Disabilities and Their Parents’ Experiences in Lebanon. In Humanizing disability and inclusive education research in the Global South (pp. 227-252). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Costantini, G., & El-Serafy, Y. (2025). Exacerbating exclusion? How the logic of refugee education perpetuates the exclusion of refugees with disabilities in Lebanon. In International Review of Education, 71(2), 301-319.
• Fontana, G., & Costantini, G. (2025). Mapping disability in war-to-peace transitions: global patterns and the Lebanese experience. In Disability & Society, 40(8), 2230-2254.
• Gholami, R., & Costantini, G. (2025). Educating for living diversity:‘Migrant’identities, belonging and community‐centred pedagogies for social justice. In British Educational Research Journal, 51(1), 25-48.

Non-academic publications

• Theodory, M., & Costantini, G. (2024). Women’s Participation in HE and Socio-economic Development.
• Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). (2023). Disability-inclusive Education in Emergencies: Key concepts, approaches, and principles for practice. Link

Talks

• “Homo Sacer, Neoliberal Inclusion and Education: The Intersection of Refugeehood and Disability”. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), UK, July 2025.
• “Syrian refugee children with disabilities and their parents lived experiences of exclusion in Lebanon” paper presentation in the paper panel session “Quest for Access to Education: Experiences of In/exclusion at the Intersection of Migration and Disability” co-organized with Miso Kwak and Jane Jeong. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, US, April 2025.
• “Educating for ‘living diversity’: Non-formal Inter-communal Education in Birmingham (NICE-B)” with Professor Reza Gholami. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Nicosia, Cyprus, August 2024.
• “‘Disability is not a priority!’: Debunking humanitarian education’s rhetoric of inclusion”. University of Birmingham, School of Education Conference, UK, July 2024.
• “‘Neoliberal inclusion’ and bare life: Syrian refugee children with disabilities’ lived experiences in accessing education in Lebanon”. Speaking from the South, University of Adelaide, Australia, June 2024.
• “Actualizing State of Exceptions: humanitarian education and Syrian refugee children with disabilities in Lebanon”. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, US, April 2024.
• “Educating for ‘living diversity’: Non-formal Inter-communal Education in Birmingham (NICE-B)” with Professor Reza Gholami. University of Birmingham, UK, January 2024.
• “At the intersection of disability and refugeehood: exploring whether and how disabled Syrian refugee children access education opportunities and learning spaces in Lebanon.” PEER Network UK Doctoral Workshop in Education, Conflict and Crisis. University of Sussex, UK, June 2023.
• “Reflections on theorizing from the perspective of a PhD student”. Center of Lebanese Studies and University of Cambridge PhD retreat. Cambridge, UK, January 2023.
• “Non-formal Intercommunal Education in Birmingham”. Imperial Encounters: Art, museums and education at the crossroads of empire and post-Brexit Britain, Birmingham, UK, June 2022