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. I am also the director of the Master’s Degree in Geography and Territorial Sciences, University of Turin. Here is my CV. Get in touch via email (pronouns: he/they)
In this podcast episode, Eva Korte (PhD candidate, TU Berlin), Judith Keller (postdoctoral researcher, HU Berlin), and Khushboo Jain (PhD candidate, FAU Nürnberg-Erlangen) are in conversation with me, exploring my idea of a “liberatory politics
On Thursday, 18th December, the police evicted and closed down one of the most important social centres in Italy: the Askatasuna, in Turin, where I live. Aska was (and still is!) an important infrastructure for
Since its founding, the Beyond Inhabitation Lab has provided an infrastructure for collective study of the changing terrains and politics of inhabitation around the world. Our work has been organized around one guiding question: How
In Italy, there are several bills that aim to introduce the IHRA’s operational definition of antisemitism, i.e. the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Although they refer to the fight against antisemitism, these bills trivialise it and
Join our Master’s degree in Geography and Territorial Sciences in Turin! The programme, which I now direct, is taught by critical scholars of international standing. We offer pathways in Italian and an exciting English‑taught curriculum
Last week I spent some time at the University of Calabria, near Cosenza. I had a wonderful experience thanks to my real generous host, Carmelo Buscema. The level of debate was quite amazing, and the
The Los Angeles Poverty Department is facing serious financial troubles due to the draconian federal funding cuts imposed by the US government. Please join me in helping them and their mission: https://www.lapovertydept.org/donate/ I have been
We, the lecturers and researchers of Italian universities, express our deep concern about the situation of Mohamed Shahin, imam of the Omar Ibn al-Khattab mosque in Turin, currently detained at the Caltanissetta Repatriation Centre following
In preparation for the national strike on the 28th of November against the militarization of Italian society and for Palestine, this week I will contribute to two student-led self-training gatherings. In both, we will discuss
Today and tomorrow I will take part into two public events in Turin to discuss about the militarization of our society in Italy and Europe, and the relationship of the military-industrial-complex in our Universities. The
Goodbye, Spotify! Not only are your practices with independent artists criminal, but your CEO also has a billion-pound investment in Helsing, a German company specialising in drones and the development of artificial intelligence systems for
Thank you to Antonis Vradis and Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero — two comrades and scholars whose work I admire deeply — for their generous reviews of mine “For a Liberatory Politics of Home” in City –
Our collective study on the relationship between Frontex and the university is now out, open access in Antipode (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70090). This article is just one part of a longer story. In 2021 we carried out direct
My Inhabiting Radical Housing ERC project has come to an end. I was awarded the grant at the University of Sheffield – thanks also to the terrific support received at the Urban Institute, to which
Today, the journalist Luciana Cimino wrote a piece for Il Manifesto on how the Italian government is strengthening control over universities. The problems are twofold. On the one hand, there is the proposal of inserting
Tomorrow, I will be in Berlin to participate in the “Idea(l)s of Home. Disentangled Spatial politics and practices encountered in home research” workshop. I will deliver a keynote on my book For a Liberatory Politics
I am delighted to announce that I have been elected to the directorship of the Interuniversity Master’s programme in #Geography and Territorial Sciences at the University of Turin. It is precisely at times like these
Today I am in Modena at the International Investigative Journalism Festival, Dig Awards. Together with Danilo Conte and the talented Francesca Coin (whom I thank for the invitation), we will talk about the fight against
The Unione Sindacale di Base (USB, of which I am a member) called for a general strike against the genocide of the Palestinian people at the hands of Israel, on Monday, 22nd September, all around
We will strike; we have been striking. We will occupy; as we did before. To boycott everything Israel is the only way forward. But the coloniality of Western thinking and inhabiting is responsible for the
The Polytechnic University where I work has missed another opportunity to do the right thing. On July 15, 2025, the Academic Senate voted by a majority against the Motion for Gaza presented by a group
See you this afternoon in Turin at Valentino Park for a day against rearmament. There will be a packed program with stalls, music, and a round table discussion with other comrades where we will talk
In recent weeks, numerous cases have emerged of police officers infiltrating the structures of Potere al Popolo, an Italian genuine left political party (https://www.fanpage.it/politica/abbiamo-scoperto-almeno-cinque-poliziotti-infiltrati-in-potere-al-popolo-i-documenti-che-lo-provano/). It has now been revealed that the police have also infiltrated
A few days ago, a boycott campaign against the forthcoming ISA conference in Rabat, Morocco, was launched by the Moroccan Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel as well as by The Palestinian
Today at the Georg Simmel Centre for Urban Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, I’ll give a talk on my work on the constitutive violence of the Italian home. Thanks to Ignacio Farias and
I am very happy to participate in this important debate organized by fellow Neapolitan comrades from the Banchi Nuovi Movement (historically one of the most important workers’ movements in and beyond Naples). See you on
A new reportage by +972 mag, on the war crimes committed by the genocidal State of Israel, this time pertaining to “humanitarian” action. Read the full article: https://www.972mag.com/hunger-games-israel-gaza-food-aid/
“Stanco”, tired, is my refuge word. But tired of what, of whom? My new piece is about this. About being exhausted, but charged with liberating and affirmative power. “Tired! Of left-wing flags | Of the
I am so happy to deliver one of the keynotes for the White Rose Doctoral Partnership 2025 conference in Sheffield, today, 17th June 2025. First, it is a great opportunity to engage with PhD scholars
I am grateful to Lindsey McCarthy for her generous reading of my Duke University Press book. “For a Liberatory Politics of Home refuses easy answers, but opens up new and necessary directions for thought and
Today, the Italian daily newspaper Il Manifesto came out with a 28-page issue entirely dedicated to Gaza. This is to demarcate a political terrain. In a moment in which the liberal left starts to call
I’ll be in Palermo this Saturday, June 7, at 5 p.m., at the Festival Una Marina di Libri. I will meet students from the university coordination group in revolt (CUIR) to discuss my book on
Next week in Lisbon takes place the second appointment of the Urban Studies Summer school co-organised by the Beyond Inhabitation Lab and the Urban Transitions Hub, ICS. The School, titled Inhabiting the Surrounds: Urbanity, Critique
Since I arrived in Italy in spring 2021, I have been participating in, co-organising and supporting student—and comrade-led struggles against the military and for Palestine. From Frontex to the fight against Leonardo and the vast
Today, Friday 23rd May 2025, I will take part in the Swiss Collaboratory City Network event at the University of Geneva. I will give a keynote entitled “The Colonies of Home“. I would like to
I am glad to be part of the open-access volume “Insurgent ground: land, housing, property” curated by the wonderful Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani & Annie Powers. The book emerges from a Freedom School held at
Tomorrow, May 15, we remember the Nakba of 1948 and that of today. In the streets, in classrooms, and in workplaces, we will continue to fight the genocide that the State of Israel is committing
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
