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
Today I am turning 40, and I am in love with so many living things. A random mix to feed the algorithm. Chickpeas, with lemon | kneading pasta | the colours Yellow, Purple | trees
I am now concluding the editing of the proofs of my forthcoming book, For a Liberatory Politics of Home, out with Duke University Press in November 2023. I worked on this text on and off
CERTO – Coordinamento per l’Etica della Ricerca TOrino is a new group, which I helped co-found and of which I am part, made of academics from the University and the Polytechnic of Turin concerned with
Università, industria delle migrazioni, controllo militare 8 maggio, 10am, Salerno In Italian – online link: https://www.unisa.it/unisa-rescue-page/dettaglio/module/87/row/9493/id/529?fbclid=IwAR131iHY-P1tqswDPOGAXBd318dZduDZDdLP9RN-zgpZVVzhOd3VPuTom7I Grazie Gennaro Avallone for organising! #AbolishFrontex
Here is a short report appeared on the Lab’s blog, on the beautiful week we just had the pleasure to attend, and to co-organise, in Paris on “Urban Life at the Extensions”. Another situated intervention
Originally appeared at: https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/blog-post/2023/04/frontex-campus-interview-professor-michele-lancione Thanks to Maurice Stierl for the care and support. Frontex off Campus! An Interview with Professor Michele Lancione Michele Lancione works as a Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Polytechnic
One year ago his day, out of nowhere, from the semi-periphery with love, with AbdouMaliq Simone we launched the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. 9 ERC post-doc researchers 2 Marie-Curies 1 Urban Studies Foundation Fellow 1 FARE
I am very happy to introduce my @ERC_Research this coming Monday, 3rd April 10 am (CET) at the DICEA Department at La Sapienza, in Rome, Italy. I will be discussing ideas and works on
Today, AbdouMaliq Simone and I are pleased to announce the Beyond Inhabitation Lab’s 2023 Spring-Summer Seminar Series, as well as my ERC Inhabiting Radical Housing project conference. All events are free to attend in person
I am honoured and thrilled to take up another term, till the end of 2026, as one of the Corresponding Editors at the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research – IJURR Get in touch
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab invites you to Paris, April 17-21 for a week of collective discussion and engagement on “Urban Life at the Extensions“. The event, organised by our co-director AbdouMaliq Simone with Lab’s support,
I recently met (for the second year in a row) some high school kids here in Turin to talk about Frontex. It was their teacher, the talented Antonella Mantovani, who brought them to me for
9th ICCG MÉXICO 2023 International Conference of Critical Geographies Mexico City, October 23 to 29, 2023 https://iccg2023.org/en/english/ Inhabiting radical housing: on the politics of inhabitation and intersectional struggles A Beyond Inhabitation Lab session, organised
With thanks to Simone Tulumello and colleagues for the invitation to join their wonderful workshop, check below for basic info on how to apply and attend. To get the full picture, please visit: https://urbantransitionshub.org/events/the-lisbon-early-career-workshop-in-urban-studies-3rd-ed-ics-ulisboa-8-10-nov-2023/ The
In Turin we are launching a new Urban and Political Geography pathway within our Master in Geography and Territorial Sciences. From Sept 2023 | All in English | With leading scholars | Beautiful City |
Today we are launching our Beyond Inhabitation Lab 2023 online Seminar series! We are going to host three wonderful speakers: 26 Jan 2023 with Tanzil Shafique on “The Myth of the Bottom-Up in Precarious Housing:
I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s event at the Urban Institute in Sheffield. The brilliant Beth Perry will speak on Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemics, with responses by Linda Westman, Aïcha Diallo & myself.
Note: this open letter was also published in Italian in the newspaper La Stampa (see below for the scan of the article) The EU anti-fraud unit (Olaf) report on Frontex is clear. The Agency ignores
I am currently offering a new 24-month Post-Doctoral Fellowship as part of a grant I was recently awarded to expand my ERC research project toward Central Eastern Europe (FARE – read more here). The researcher
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,
