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. Here is my CV. Get in touch @michelelancione (he/they).
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
I am grateful to Samantha Thompson for her insightful review of my book For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke, 2023) out now in Antipode. In closing her review, Samantha writes: You can read the
I am thankful to my dear friend and colleague Silvia Aru for organising a forum on my For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke, 2023) on the Rivista Geografica Italiana. The forum, published last December,
After many years, I have resigned from my editorial role in the Radical Housing Journal. The decision, as I explain below, it is entirely personal and has nothing to do with the RHJ – a
We are excited to share the news that our Mara Ferreri has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator grant of nearly 2 million for her proposal: “Enacting Decommodified Housing in Southern Europe: crises, family relations,
In the past year, Israel has sparred no resources to continue with its systematic intent to render Palestine a land uninhabitable for the Palestinian people. More than 43,000 Palestinian were killed; Gaza was destroyed in
With my brother AbdouMaliq we recently published a paper in EPD: Society & Space, titled: “Dispossessed exposures. Housing and regimes of the visible“ You can download it here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758241274636 Abstract Literatures and organising show us
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab & Urban Transitions Hub’s Urban School is happening in Turin on 23-26th September. We are welcoming 15 selected international postdocs who will engage in collective study with Lab and Hub’s members
With AbdouMaliq Simone we are organising a panel at the forthcoming ISA Sociology-RC21 conference in Rabat, Morocco. Below you can find the call for paper. Abstract submission will close on October, 15th 2024 and it
I am going to be involved in a number of sessions at the RGS-IBG conference in London this week, including discussing books from my friends Colin and Erin, as well as presenting my own book
I am happy to be in #Melbourne for a number of things, thanks to the wonderful Alison Young – Deputy Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cities. On Wednesday, I will be in a full-day
It was a privilege for me to participate in the Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s Freedom School “Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property” in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. A collective of old and
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab has hosted a tripartite session at the RC21 conference in Santiago, Chile, this July. The session was organised by our members Ana Vilenica, Margherita Grazioli and Michele Lancione. Under the title
I arrived yesterday in Shanghai and I look forward to being based here and in Suzhou for the next five weeks, as part of my visiting time at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). I will spend
Today in Sheffield at the Urban Institute with the Beyond Inhabitation Lab we are running a two-day workshop on The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation. With scholars from all over UK and EU working on
I am happy to join the Department of Architecture at KU Leuven today for their Spatial Justice UULP day, which is dedicated to PhD candidates and their projects. I will be offering one of the
The next two weeks, I am going to be busy discussing with many others the colonial war waged by the State of Israel, the militarization of our societies and the roles of our universities in
Today, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, I tried to sum up the last three years of personal and collective thinking / political organising around the relationship between the university and the
I spent the last two weeks in Los Angeles, as a guest of the Skid Row Archive and Museum. This is a community archive and museum managed by the Los Angeles Poverty Department, a performance
For a few weeks, a number of academics in Italy have been working to stop an agreement between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State of Israel to finance ‘scientific projects’ that can
Venerdì 5 aprile, 3pm, al DIST avremo un confronto sul mio ultimo libro For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke University Press, 2023). Ci saranno Sandro Mezzadra, Margherita Grazioli, Francesca Governa e Silvia Aru. Siete
