I am an urban ethnographer and activist, Professor of Urban Studies at the Urban Institute. I am co-founder an Editor at the Radical Housing Journal and Corresponding Editor for Europe at IJURR. The material on this website is here to be repossessed. Get in touch @michelelancione
A little news decided in early 2020 but effective as of 1/21… I am now full Professor/Chair in Urban Studies (Professore Ordinario in Studi Urbani) at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. Keep me in
Since the beautiful people at the Critical Urbanisms lab in Basel recorded it… let me share. In this lecture I try to make sense of underground inhabitation, and the propositional politics of the uninhabitable in
After some personal and COVID-19 delay, today we start my European Research Council (ERC) project on “Inhabiting Radical Housing”! I look forward to the next 5 years of fieldwork, decolonial housing research & undercommons building
After 8 years of work within City – Analysis of Urban Change, Theory and Action, the last two of which as one of the main Editors, it is time for me to move on and
After a year of work, Issue 2.1 of the Radical Housing Journal is out now. Titled: “The renewed ‘crisis’: Housing struggle before and after the pandemic”, peer-reviewed & open-source, accessible here: https://radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/2-1/ Highlights include: – The
It is a great privilege for me to be part of this publication by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles & Arts of the Working Class with so many friends coming out of the #WorldsofHomelessness event that took place last year in LA.
With AbdouMaliq Simone we have produced this text, which appeared first on the Society & Space Blog (here and here) and then on LeftEast (here). It comes out of weeks of reflections on how the
Out now in Cultural Anthropology a powerful colloquy on “Gestures of Care”, of which I’m flattered to be part of, together with my friends Lauren Cubellis, Lisa Stevenson, Ken MacLeish and Zoë Wool. In there,
Published on the Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto, on 16/12/19. The original piece can be found here. Boris mangia un panino. Tiene un pesce in mano. Si fa ritrarre come se avesse appena finito
If there is one seminar series in urban anthropology that has attracted lots of attention in recent years, this is the CADES (Advanced Master of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies) at KU Leuven. Thanks to
The Life at the Margins and Urban Human research group at the Urban Institute invite you to our new seminar series, “Dwelling in Liminalities: Uncanny conversations”, which I am organising with my colleague AbdouMaliq Simone.
The Early Career Researchers (ECRs) Urban Studies Network is an Urban Institute (UI) and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (USP) initiative, supported by the Faculty of Social Science at Sheffield (FoSS). It has
