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, Corresponding Editor at IJURR and Advisory Board member of the International Journal of Housing Policy. Get in touch @michelelancione
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,
Now we are going to watch her – and I ask for all of you, to please watch us. There are going to be years of struggles ahead – around #gender and #sexuality rights, #migration
On Saturday, 24th September, 9pm, I will join a critical public festival in Turin, sponsored by ‘Volere la Luna‘. At the event, I will join a number of activists and colleagues to discuss around the
In the PDF below, you can find the syllabus for my Master-level module on Geography, Theory and Practice. The module offers an introduction to critical geographical thinking, with particular reference to how it developed in
I am in beautiful Lecce today, opening the #Giornate della #Geografia of the Associazione dei geografi italiani – Association of Italian Geographers with Anna Casaglia and Claudio Minca I will speak of the challenges and
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab (www.beyondinhabitation.org) is excited to attend the RGS-IBG 2022 conference this week (https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/). If you are in Newcastle, come join us for some of our events! On Aug 30 @ 9am GMT,
I have the privilege of working with scholars who are going to mark #urban & #housing studies. Thumbs up for the work of my postdocs Daniela Morpurgo, Rodrigo Castriota, Chiara Cacciotti, Oluwafemi Olajide, Ana Vilenica,
When I was working at the Urban Institute and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning back in Sheffield, I designed and run for 3 years an ECR Post-Doc scheme to provide meaningful engagement to
The Radical Housing Journal seventh Issue is now out!! Issue 4.1 – Carcerality, Housing Precarity and Abolition Edited by Samanta Thompson, Erin McElroy, Ana Vilenica and myself. Peer-reviewed, open-access and freely available at https://radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-4-1/ In
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 –
