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 founded and co-direct the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. I am also a co-founder and Editor of the Radical Housing Journal and Corresponding Editor at IJURR. Get in touch @michelelancione
I am grateful to the WOZ (DieWochenzeitung) and to Raphael Albisser for giving me space on their pages to express some ideas on urbanity, radical housing struggles and the meaning of academic work. You can
I am happy to be in Utrecht today Faculty of Geosciences, speaking at their Urban Future Lecture Series. I will be presenting research underpinning the work we do at the Beyond Inhabitation Lab (www.beyondinhabitation.org) Thanks
Following the ongoing investigative work of Luca Rondi at Altra Economia (ITA – ENG) I am writing again – this time not alone, but with my colleague Francesca Governa – to the regents of the
“Grammars of the Urban Ground“, the book I co-edited with Ash Amin for Duke University Press, is now out at https://www.dukeupress.edu/grammars-of-the-urban-ground Get 30% off the paperback with code E22GRMMR, and check in the coming weeks
I am excited to take part in a two-day event on “Evictability: Understanding the nexus of migration and urban displacements” at Malmö University, Institute for Urban Research, June 2-3 , 2022 I will be delivering
I am very happy to join new friends in Lisbon tomorrow, at the CICS.NOVA | Conferência de Primavera do Laboratório de Ideias | Ideas Laboratory Spring Talk. The seminar will take place on May 31
Today at the Beyond Inhabitation Lab we are announcing our 2022 Spring Seminar Series! In our first set of interventions and collective conversations, we are very excited to host three distinguished scholars here in Turin,
Last night I had a wonderful time at Urban Publics Zurich event, where we discussed radical housing theory and praxis with organisers and scholars based in Zurich. I was on the stage with Philipp Klaus
Today, after a year of preparation, we are launching our “Beyond Inhabitation: A Collective Study Lab” based at DIST in Turin, Italy. This is our beautiful website: https://beyondinhabitation.org Through the Lab, we aim to provide
Please join Francesco Chiodelli, Camillo Boano, Francesca Governa and yours truly for our forthcoming seminars at DIST in Turin with two very distinguished guests: 20 April 4pm CET, Ash Amin on “Space/Subjectivity” 21 April 4pm
My new paper in Antipode took years to write. Since the time in which I did the archival and ethnographic research underpinning it much life, death, pandemic, and international moving happened… but I hope I
If you are in Genoa this Thursday 31st March, I will be at a demonstration and public debate with the comrades of the Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali thanks to a very kind invitation from them.
Thanks to the Spiegel and, in Italy, to Luca Rondi at Altreconomia, we have now even more proofs of how Frontex is engaging in the violent pushback of migrants at EU’s frontiers. On the basis
Housing and inhabitation: situated geographies of intersectional struggles Organised by: Abdoumaliq Simone, Oluwafemi Olajide, Daniela Morpurgo, Michele Lancione, and Chiara Cacciotti Three interlocking processes are redefining what it means to inhabit the planet and its
With Chiara Cacciotti and AbdouMaliq Simone we are organising a paper session at the forthcoming EASA conference, Belfast, 26-29 July 2022. “Inhabiting liminality. Housing precarity in its spatial, political and social dimensions” Abstracts by 21
Much of what I think around Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine is contained is this powerful text from a group of Russian anarchists, appeared on CrimeThink. I would only like to add two points. First,
Join Ana Vilenica and me this Tuesday 22 February, 4pm CET (Rome time) for a seminar on “Open Source Dissemination and Radical Publishing” We will be talking about our experience with Radical Housing Journal &
Check out our Radical Housing Journal call for papers for the next ISA-RC21 conference in Athens. “Intersectionality and housing struggles: Liberating housing at the intersection of race, gender, class and other forms of structural inequalities”
Late in December last year, EPD: Society & Space published a special issue I curated with my dear friend AbdouMaliq Simone. This is a project that took years in the making. We are thankful to
The last position available on my ERC ‘Inhabiting Radical Housing’ project has been advertised yesterday. 3- year research contract (RTDA) to work in Turin with a fantastic team of international researchers at DIST –
ciao bell hooks when I did my PhD this book allowed me not to feel ashamed about my working-class self-made ‘culture’ and it allowed me to see the power of feminist thinking and of black
The Polytechnic has decided to continue the agreement of service between DIST-Ithaca-Polito and Frontex (back story, here). After a meeting of the academic Senate on the 14th of December, the newspaper La Stampa reports that
I am very happy to take part in the third and last event in the “Infrastructure, Inequality and the Neo-Apartheid City” series, organised by Dr Mori Ram, Dr Charlotte Lemanski, and Prof. Haim Yacobi with
This Friday, with my beloved sister, comrade and friend Veda Popovici, we will give one of the keynotes at the 2021 RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group Annual Conference ‘Cities of Hope’. I am thrilled to
Two major news outlets, among others, are talking of this matter today in Italy (my original story is here). Francesca Spinelli interviewed me for the Internazionale , while il Manifesto has published a collective letter
Tomorrow I will be delivering one of the keynotes at the “Planning for Social Justice” event DAStU – Politecnico di Milano, at 9:30am CET I am excited to share the floor with my City –
My Department at the Polytechnic of Turin is creating maps for Frontex, the EU border control agency, which is involved in the violent pushbacks of refugees. I wrote to Altreconomia – the magazine that broke
I am very thrilled to be able to announce the post-docs joining (Jan22) my European Research Council #InhabitingRadicalHousing project at DIST – Dip. Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio. Intersectional takes on #housingstruggles:
I am happy to begin teaching today on a new introductory module that I have designed, on Geography, Theory & Practice in Turin, with a focus on the colonial roots of the discipline, discussing
After a long time of no-travelling, and a very tough couple of years, I now have the privilege to travel to Berlin (by train!) to take part in a very interesting event put together by
A dieci anni dal mio ‘Il numero 1‘, Eris Edizioni ha pubblicato un bel saggio di Daniela Leonardi intitolato ‘La colpa di non avere un tetto: Homelessness tra stigma e stereotipi’ Questo Mercoledì, 22 Sett,
If you are attending the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, don’t miss tomorrow’s (9th Sept 2021) roundtable on ‘Worldwide perspectives on (in)justice in planning with a focus on housing precarity’. Featuring Verónica Gago, Renu Khosla, Theresa
Oggi è uscito un ulteriore bando per un assegno junior sul mio progetto ERC — si tratta di un anno rinnovabile, aperto a persone interessate alla componente gestionale e di programmazione europea del progetto. Il
Join AbdouMaliq Simone & me today #RC21Antwerp for a wonderful panel with Gautam Bhan, Rupali Gupte, Ratoola Kundu, Anant Maringanti & Prasad Shetty “What Difference Does a Year Make: Indian Urban Worlds. A conversation
“Libya has long been unsafe for refugees and migrants. Both state and non-state actors subject them to a catalogue of human rights violations and abuses including unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment, rape and other
