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, and here my ORCID profile. Get in touch via email (pronouns: he/they)
Our new book with brother Simone Maliq, “Beyond Inhabitation. Housing and Ordinary Desire at the Edge” is out in Spring 2027. Now available to pre-order with code E27INHAB for a 30% discount at Duke University
A national assembly of our campaign ‘La Conoscenza non Marcia’ (Knowledge does not march) to sever the links between the world of Universities and the military will take place on Oct 28th, 4pm CET. Join
To celebrate the sixth anniversary of the people’s house Estella – a communal space based in Turin – today, we are going to discuss housing struggles and housing justice in the city with comrades from
Whilst universities, the government and the EU fan the flames of rearmament, war and the suppression of dissent, we – students, workers and lecturers – continue to organise and fight for an alternative. ‘Knowledge Does
Tomorrow, October 16th, at 6pm I will chat live with comrades of Radio Onda Rossa about my recent album, La Classe. We will listen to three tracks and discuss the lyrics and their politics. Radio
The latest issue of TEIKO – an independent political magazine from Bologna – is now online. Download it! Comrades have done a brilliant job. Among others, an article co-written with brother AbdouMaliq Simone on ‘Operation,
This weekend I will have the pleasure of taking part in the Conference to Resist the Militarisation of Universities, which will be held in Padua at the Casa del Popolo Meri Rampazzo (17 and 18
Three years ago, I published this monograph with Duke University Press . It took me about 10 years to write it. Can we think of a home that does not require otherness to stand? My
Thanks to Aya Nassar, Sterling Johnson, Paroj Banerjee (PhD) and AbdouMaliq Simone for their reviews of For a Liberatory Politics of Home ( Duke University Press), just published in Dialogues in Human Geography. In my
The continuation of intellectual work and struggles by other means. La Classe, #rapconscious #antifa, is now available on all platforms. Link: https://linktr.ee/laclasse_vogue Peace!
My new album, La Classe, is out at midnight this Saturday. On Friday 25th at 9 pm sharp, I’ll present it live at OST Barriera, in Turin. #Rap #Antifa #Glitterato Save the pre-release link –
On Saturday 26th at 15:30, we meet again in Turin with Potere al Popolo to discuss opposition to the militarisation of our territories and the Meloni government, and to work toward forming an independent anti-fascist
This Sunday in Milan, I’ll be participating in Le Alleanze dei Corpi, which this year is paying tribute to the contribution of Black feminist thought on spatiality. I’m very happy to be part of the
A reminder for the Beyond Inhabitation Lab gathering “Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: Popular Intelligence and Military Capture in the Mediterranean”, to be held in Turin, 27th May – 1st June, 2027. This is
I will be doing two gigs in Turin pretty soon to preview and then launch my new HH LP, named La Classe. 19th Sept, 6pm – in Santena (TO), as part of the Noise for
In one week, we start our term, and as Director of our Master’s Degree in Geography and Territorial Sciences, I am excited to welcome many international and Italian students to Turin. This term I am
Sunday we are going to meet in Turin to continue our collective work against the militarization of our city. We are also fighting against an economic model pivoted around big events – such as the
A collective piece just came out in City. It was written by the 15 scholars who took part in the Beyond Inhabitation Lab & Urban Transitions Hub schools in 2024 in Turin and 2025 in
I would like to thank my dear colleague, Dallas Rogers, for taking the time of conversing with me about some of the ideas contained in For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke, 2023). Our exchange
We are thrilled to announce an open call for participation in our signature event, “Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: Popular Intelligence and Military Capture in the Mediterranean“, to be held in Turin, 27th May
ITA – Questa canzone si chiama Maglie strette perché letteralmente parla di questo: di quei vestiti scomodi perché il corpo é scomodo; di quel non essere mai a posto con se stess3 perché non si
Today I am going to take part in an online gathering, organised by Osvaldo Costantini, with a number of Italian anthropologists. The gist is to continue to discuss the role of the military sector in
Tomorrow I’ll be opening up an event on housing justice at the Sapienza University of Rome. I look forward to this day of exchange, which will include scholars and organisers whom I admire for their
I’ve been able to spend a few days in LA with very special people. Old and new friends, organisers in Skid Row and Echo Park Lake, scholars whom I deeply admire – including my comrade
I have released a new track, titled Piante e Dosi, produced by Stoic and arranged by Stefano Ribaudo. The name evokes the surname of our Ministry of the Interior, to denounce the securitisation and militarisation
In Turin over the next few days, there will be three events continuing the debate on war, the military, universities and forms of resistance. On Friday, 8 May, 3.30 pm, at the Ferdinando Rossi Forum,
I am happy to take part in the Altrimodi/Altrimondi festival in Turin, which in previous years was hosted in the Askatasuna social centre – evicted by police in December 2025 (read here). This year, the
On April 13 at the Einaudi Campus, as part of the SegnaLibri initiative, I will have the great pleasure of joining colleagues to discuss my book “For a Liberatory Politics of Home” (Duke University Press,
Today I will be in Bologna together with the friends and comrades of Into the Black Box, following a kind invitation from Sandro Mezzadra. Together with a number of colleagues, we will discuss Southern Urbanism,
We continue with public debates and mobilisation in Turin. Tonight a public gathering on the relationship between our city, our universities, and the military. We will discuss the political economy of death and continue to
Thank you to my dear friend Ryan Powell for his review of For a Liberatory Politics of Home in Space and Polity. “the major contribution of this remarkable text is in showcasing the explanatory power
A very important work has just been published by the Transnational Institute, which is relevant to all of us working in Academia. Their new report is titled Border Labs: How Universities Power the EU Border
This Friday and Saturday (9 a.m.–6 p.m.), we’ll be at the Castello del Valentino, in the Salone delle Colonne, to present our Master’s program in Geography and Territorial Sciences, which I direct. Come by for
This week, I joined comrades in LA to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. The celebration included a keynote speech by Ruthie Gilmore: a wonderful lecture on racial
It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the list of invited speakers for our 2026 Spring Seminar Series. We are excited to host, in order of appearance: Tatiana Thieme, Irene Peano, Ida Danewid, Ananya Roy
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Luca Rondi and Altreconomia for the two articles they have dedicated to the ERC project I coordinated, Inhabiting Radical Housing. In the first piece, Luca interviews
The “Knowledge Doesn’t March” campaign is an initiative that brings together a network of organized entities from the world of schools and universities. Its goal is to provide a tool for severing the ties between
I am happy to start my newly designed module on Racialised and Gendered Cities next week. This 36-hours class is an optional offering for second-year students of our Master’s Degree in Geography and Territorial Sciences
This is one of the armchairs in my office. Dozens of students, PhDs, post-docs come to sit here every week for hours of meetings. Just now, that armchair had the privilege to host an Iranian
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
