I am full 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. I am also a co-founder and Editor of the Radical Housing Journal and Corresponding Editor at IJURR. Here is my CV. Get in touch @michelelancione
This weekend, we continue to talk about the relationship between #university and #militarisation, about #war, the intermingling of research and the military sector, and the ethics of university practice. This time in #Sicily! – #Messina,
Questa mattina in onda su Radio Blackout 105.250 Grazie anche ai compagn* per questa intervista sui temi della #guerra e del finanziamento #militare alla ricerca https://radioblackout.org/2023/11/universita-e-militarizzazione-quali-rapporti-e-come-combatterli/ Eris Edizioni: https://www.erisedizioni.org/prodotto/universita-e-militarizzazione/
What a beautiful evening yesterday in Turin! Among the hundreds of books in the wonderful Libreria Comunardi , we took the time to discuss my short essay on #university and #militarisation With Francesca Governa, Luca
After many years of work, For a Liberatory Politics of Home is now officially out at Duke University Press. Can we imagine a ‘home’ that does not require the constitution & colonization of an alterity
IT Il Manifesto ha pubblicato una bella recensione del mio libro Università e Militarizzazione sul numero di oggi, 11 novembre. Gennaro Avallone, che ringrazio di cuore per averla scritta, dice: È evidente l’utilità di questo
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing is right: settler #housing practice in #Palestine amounts to #domicide. Yet, the destruction of the Palestinian homely by the hand of Israel is not just an
Today in Bologna, two moments for collective discussion on #housing, #domicile, #housingjustice & #war, #militarisation, #university. – 2:30 pm, “Housing: a crossroads of struggles” an event co-organized by PLAT – Platform for Social Intervention and
The week of 23-28 October Beyond Inhabitation Lab’s members moved to Mexico City to attend the 9th International Congress of Critical Geography. Lab members, Michele Lancione, Chiara Cacciotti, Daniela Morpurgo and Rodrigo Castriota, organized the panel
The shameless, violent continuation of the Israeli colonial project in Palestine leads to feelings of anxiety, powerlessness, and fear punctuated by anger and a deep sense of historical injustice. Many are standing against the current
“La casa: un incrocio di lotte” is a join initiative of PLAT (an autonomous Social Intervention Platform based in Bologna, Italy) and the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. With it, we want to discuss the political nature
My short book on the relationship between the Academy and the Military sector is out now in Italy. The book is written in Italian, and it is published by ERIS Edizioni, a leading independent publisher
For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Duke University Press, is out in Nov 2023, but it can now be pre-ordered with a 30% discount on the paperback. Use coupon code E23LANCN at checkout ($20.27/£17.50 with
We just published a new issue in the Radical Housing Journal! Read it by clicking on the title below. “Life-Affirmative Struggles for Home Across Borders” Issue 5.1 of the Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) examines the
On may 16th, 2023, members of the ERC Project Inhabiting Radical Housing (grant n. 851940, PI: Lancione) presented preliminary findings from research work conducted over the last 18 months. Marking the halfway point in this
New European Citizen Initiative to #Stop #BorderViolence Today “we call for appropriate regulations to ensure that Article 4 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is applied effectively” Sign our petition https://eci.ec.europa.eu/032/public/#/screen/home Info in ENG:
Here is a short commentary I wrote on a terrific special issue curated by Desiree Fields, Emma Power and Kenton Card on #housing #movements and #care “Radical Housing Justice Within and Beyond Caring” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12958 The
Questo giovedì alle 18:30 al Centro Studi Sereno Regis a Torino presentiamo un numero di Contropiano e parliamo di #guerra, #imperialismo e #militarizzazione. Io in particolare mi soffermerò sul rapporto tra industria della difesa e
Why we need to #AbolishFrontex now: https://abolishfrontex.org/how/ List of demands – please circulate: https://abolishfrontex.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ENG_Abolish-Frontex-demands.pdf On fighting to keep Frontex outside of our Universities, two of my recent interviews: In English, on Borders Criminologies with Maurice
I’m happy to take part to two important events taking place under the auspice of the City of Naples this week. Tomorrow, Wednesday 7 June we are going to have a discussion with the talented
Today I am turning 40, and I am in love with so many living things. A random mix to feed the algorithm. Chickpeas, with lemon | kneading pasta | the colours Yellow, Purple | trees
I am now concluding the editing of the proofs of my forthcoming book, For a Liberatory Politics of Home, out with Duke University Press in November 2023. I worked on this text on and off
CERTO – Coordinamento per l’Etica della Ricerca TOrino is a new group, which I helped co-found and of which I am part, made of academics from the University and the Polytechnic of Turin concerned with
Università, industria delle migrazioni, controllo militare 8 maggio, 10am, Salerno In Italian – online link: https://www.unisa.it/unisa-rescue-page/dettaglio/module/87/row/9493/id/529?fbclid=IwAR131iHY-P1tqswDPOGAXBd318dZduDZDdLP9RN-zgpZVVzhOd3VPuTom7I Grazie Gennaro Avallone for organising! #AbolishFrontex
Here is a short report appeared on the Lab’s blog, on the beautiful week we just had the pleasure to attend, and to co-organise, in Paris on “Urban Life at the Extensions”. Another situated intervention
Originally appeared at: https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/blog-post/2023/04/frontex-campus-interview-professor-michele-lancione Thanks to Maurice Stierl for the care and support. Frontex off Campus! An Interview with Professor Michele Lancione Michele Lancione works as a Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Polytechnic
One year ago his day, out of nowhere, from the semi-periphery with love, with AbdouMaliq Simone we launched the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. 9 ERC post-doc researchers 2 Marie-Curies 1 Urban Studies Foundation Fellow 1 FARE
I am very happy to introduce my @ERC_Research this coming Monday, 3rd April 10 am (CET) at the DICEA Department at La Sapienza, in Rome, Italy. I will be discussing ideas and works on
Today, AbdouMaliq Simone and I are pleased to announce the Beyond Inhabitation Lab’s 2023 Spring-Summer Seminar Series, as well as my ERC Inhabiting Radical Housing project conference. All events are free to attend in person
I am honoured and thrilled to take up another term, till the end of 2026, as one of the Corresponding Editors at the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research – IJURR Get in touch
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab invites you to Paris, April 17-21 for a week of collective discussion and engagement on “Urban Life at the Extensions“. The event, organised by our co-director AbdouMaliq Simone with Lab’s support,
I recently met (for the second year in a row) some high school kids here in Turin to talk about Frontex. It was their teacher, the talented Antonella Mantovani, who brought them to me for
9th ICCG MÉXICO 2023 International Conference of Critical Geographies Mexico City, October 23 to 29, 2023 https://iccg2023.org/en/english/ Inhabiting radical housing: on the politics of inhabitation and intersectional struggles A Beyond Inhabitation Lab session, organised
With thanks to Simone Tulumello and colleagues for the invitation to join their wonderful workshop, check below for basic info on how to apply and attend. To get the full picture, please visit: https://urbantransitionshub.org/events/the-lisbon-early-career-workshop-in-urban-studies-3rd-ed-ics-ulisboa-8-10-nov-2023/ The
In Turin we are launching a new Urban and Political Geography pathway within our Master in Geography and Territorial Sciences. From Sept 2023 | All in English | With leading scholars | Beautiful City |
Today we are launching our Beyond Inhabitation Lab 2023 online Seminar series! We are going to host three wonderful speakers: 26 Jan 2023 with Tanzil Shafique on “The Myth of the Bottom-Up in Precarious Housing:
I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s event at the Urban Institute in Sheffield. The brilliant Beth Perry will speak on Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemics, with responses by Linda Westman, Aïcha Diallo & myself.
Note: this open letter was also published in Italian in the newspaper La Stampa (see below for the scan of the article) The EU anti-fraud unit (Olaf) report on Frontex is clear. The Agency ignores
I am currently offering a new 24-month Post-Doctoral Fellowship as part of a grant I was recently awarded to expand my ERC research project toward Central Eastern Europe (FARE – read more here). The researcher
The fight to keep Frontex out of our universities continues. In the summer of 2021, my Department (DIST) at the Politecnico di Torino signed a contract to produce cartography for Frontex (the European Coast Guard
I am thrilled to take part in “Decentring Critical Urban Scholarship: Conversations with IJURR” I will introduce the work of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab (www.beyondinhabitation.org) together with other Labs located across the globe. Thursday, 3rd
I am thrilled to announce a new successful competitive funding application, from the Italian Ministry of University and Research. The scheme is called ‘FARE‘, which stands for Framework for the attraction and the strengthening of
Thank you Michele Acuto for your generous review in IJURR of the book I’ve done with Colin McFarlane! 56 authors across the globe, for a non-totalising & grounded reading of ‘global urbanism’… It took a
Yesterday, 29th Sept 2022, I took part in the retirement party of my former first PhD supervisor and fundamental academic mentor, Ash Amin. The event was organised by Bhaskar Vira at the Department of Geography,
