I am Professor of Economic and Political Geography at DIST in Turin and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the Urban Institute, Sheffield. With AbdouMaliq Simone, I co-direct the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. Here is my CV. Get in touch @michelelancione (he/they).
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab recently hosted Dr Mahmoud Hawari on “Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Archeology, and the Appropriation of Cultural Heritage”. The recording of his powerful lecture is now available on the Lab’s YouTube channel and
I have written an article about the new acceleration in the pro-militarist discourse by our universities. Today on the front page of il Manifesto: https://ilmanifesto.it/luniversita-e-le-sfumature-della-difesa?t=C4HD8jkJgIZ1nUPvKnVIA
Tomorrow night, Monday the 7th at 9 p.m., against European rearmament, we boycott the war. At the Casa del Popolo – Estella. Info from the organisers: Caricare, puntare, fuoco! La corsa agli armamenti sembrava retaggio
Next week, 11th April 2025, I will take part into the wonderful Antrimondi_Antrimodi Festival at the Askatasuna squat and social centre in Turin. On Friday at 6 p.m. with Marco Boscolo we will discuss the
From the old demos – out now on all platforms. The EP contains a selection of tracks from my old demos, re-recorded and, in some cases, remixed. The appetizer before the new album. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4pbMgSjIhO0BuzJPb05N2k?si=KqrIqBdcQcySc3LYfg-NZA
The new issue of the powerful Lo Squaderno is out now. It focuses on Alliances and Urban Precarity and it has been curated by the wonderful friends and comrades Cristina Mattiucci and Marina Volpe. With
Today #AAG2025 kicks off with the two panels I co-organised with Libby Porter on urban justice. Later in the day, Land and Property with Vera Smirnova, Jonathan McCombs & Erin McElroy – in anger for
I’ve been doing hip-hop (MCing) since I was 14. At 41 I record and release it. Antifa and Queer. BREAD anticipates an EP with tracks from old demos, before the new album in June. Now
I am deeply thankful to Urban Studies (and Michele Acuto) for the review forum they organised around my For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke University Press). The forum comprises interventions by Colin McFarlane, Ash
I am grateful to Samantha Thompson for her insightful review of my book For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke, 2023) out now in Antipode. In closing her review, Samantha writes: You can read the
I am thankful to my dear friend and colleague Silvia Aru for organising a forum on my For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke, 2023) on the Rivista Geografica Italiana. The forum, published last December,
After many years, I have resigned from my editorial role in the Radical Housing Journal. The decision, as I explain below, it is entirely personal and has nothing to do with the RHJ – a
We are excited to share the news that our Mara Ferreri has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator grant of nearly 2 million for her proposal: “Enacting Decommodified Housing in Southern Europe: crises, family relations,
In the past year, Israel has sparred no resources to continue with its systematic intent to render Palestine a land uninhabitable for the Palestinian people. More than 43,000 Palestinian were killed; Gaza was destroyed in
With my brother AbdouMaliq we recently published a paper in EPD: Society & Space, titled: “Dispossessed exposures. Housing and regimes of the visible“ You can download it here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758241274636 Abstract Literatures and organising show us
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab & Urban Transitions Hub’s Urban School is happening in Turin on 23-26th September. We are welcoming 15 selected international postdocs who will engage in collective study with Lab and Hub’s members
With AbdouMaliq Simone we are organising a panel at the forthcoming ISA Sociology-RC21 conference in Rabat, Morocco. Below you can find the call for paper. Abstract submission will close on October, 15th 2024 and it
I am going to be involved in a number of sessions at the RGS-IBG conference in London this week, including discussing books from my friends Colin and Erin, as well as presenting my own book
I am happy to be in #Melbourne for a number of things, thanks to the wonderful Alison Young – Deputy Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cities. On Wednesday, I will be in a full-day
It was a privilege for me to participate in the Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s Freedom School “Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property” in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. A collective of old and
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab has hosted a tripartite session at the RC21 conference in Santiago, Chile, this July. The session was organised by our members Ana Vilenica, Margherita Grazioli and Michele Lancione. Under the title
I arrived yesterday in Shanghai and I look forward to being based here and in Suzhou for the next five weeks, as part of my visiting time at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). I will spend
Today in Sheffield at the Urban Institute with the Beyond Inhabitation Lab we are running a two-day workshop on The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation. With scholars from all over UK and EU working on
I am happy to join the Department of Architecture at KU Leuven today for their Spatial Justice UULP day, which is dedicated to PhD candidates and their projects. I will be offering one of the
The next two weeks, I am going to be busy discussing with many others the colonial war waged by the State of Israel, the militarization of our societies and the roles of our universities in
Today, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, I tried to sum up the last three years of personal and collective thinking / political organising around the relationship between the university and the
I spent the last two weeks in Los Angeles, as a guest of the Skid Row Archive and Museum. This is a community archive and museum managed by the Los Angeles Poverty Department, a performance
For a few weeks, a number of academics in Italy have been working to stop an agreement between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State of Israel to finance ‘scientific projects’ that can
Venerdì 5 aprile, 3pm, al DIST avremo un confronto sul mio ultimo libro For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke University Press, 2023). Ci saranno Sandro Mezzadra, Margherita Grazioli, Francesca Governa e Silvia Aru. Siete
Spring has arrived, and the horror of the Israeli war and so many other wars are still here. We must not stop studying and discussing the intensification of militarization in our collective lives in the
The Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, UK, hosted a hybrid event to launch my new book ‘For a Liberatory Politics of Home‘ published by Duke University Press The event took place on Tuesday,
La settimana prossima, lunedí 18 continuiamo a confrontarci su guerra, universitá e militarizzazione con collegh* di CERTO (Coordinamento per l’Etica nella Ricerca) e corpo studentesco. Ore 17 in presenza presso Sala Lauree del Dipartimento di
Next week I will present my book, For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke University Press), with colleagues and friends in Sheffield & London. 12th March 4pm GMT, at the Urban Institute in Sheffield. The
Applications now welcome to participate in a workshop on 23-24 May 2024 ‘The epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation’ organised jointly by the Urban Institute (University of Sheffield) and Beyond Inhabitation Lab (Polytechnic University of Turin).
Con le bravissime Paola Rivetti e Alessandra Algostino (e tant* altr*) promuoviamo questa lettera indirizzata al Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI) riguardante la rinnovata cooperazione di ricerca tra istituzioni italiane e
I am excited to announce the Beyond Inhabitation Lab‘s 2024 Spring-Summer Seminar Series. We will be hosting seven events, including a book discussion, a collective conversation as well as five seminars by distinguished scholars who
From Israel to Leonardo: The role of our universities in the war industry. Today 17:30 at the Einaudi campus in Turin with Cambiare Rotta Torino, End Fossil and the Palestine Project. The meeting is a
All’interno del bellissimo Ard Film Festival (https://alardfilmfestival.com/), organizzato a #Cagliari dall’Associazione Amicizia Sardegna #Palestina, parleremo di guerra, complesso militare industriale e il rapporto tra #Università e #Militarizzazione Eris Edizioni. Questo sabato alle ore 11, Teatro
Inhabiting the Surrounds: Urbanity, Critique and Speculative Practice Urban Studies Summer School organised by the Beyond Inhabitation Lab and Urban Transitions Hub 23-26 September 2024, Turin – 2-6 June 2025, Lisbon Confirmed keynote instructorsTurin: Ruth
Today, we had our first meeting in Turin of our new antifascist university alliance. This is a renewed form of activism that links our anti-fascist praxis to anti-militarism and the need to defend the terrain
I look forward to joining the Radical Urban Lab at the University of St Andrews on Monday 5th, February, as part of their week of events. I will take part in the VIVA discussion of
My anti-militarist practice has brought me, for many years, to embrace the Palestinian-led Boycott, Disinvest, Sanction (BDS) campaign against the Israeli military-industrial regime and its death project (I speak of this in my recent volume
The following interview, about my book “Universitá e Militarizzazione” (Eris 2023), appeared in the pages of Altreconomia in Italian. I have translated it here in English, using an automated translator. Thanks to Luca Rondi for
