I am full Professor of Economic and Political Geography at DiST in Turin and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the Urban Institute, Sheffield. I am also a co-founder and Editor of the Radical Housing Journal and Corresponding Editor at IJURR. Get in touch @michelelancione
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 –
My Department at the Polytechnic of Turin is creating maps for Frontex, the EU border control agency, which is involved in the violent pushbacks of refugees. I wrote to Altreconomia – the magazine that broke
I am very thrilled to be able to announce the post-docs joining (Jan22) my European Research Council #InhabitingRadicalHousing project at DIST – Dip. Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio. Intersectional takes on #housingstruggles:
I am happy to begin teaching today on a new introductory module that I have designed, on Geography, Theory & Practice in Turin, with a focus on the colonial roots of the discipline, discussing
After a long time of no-travelling, and a very tough couple of years, I now have the privilege to travel to Berlin (by train!) to take part in a very interesting event put together by
A dieci anni dal mio ‘Il numero 1‘, Eris Edizioni ha pubblicato un bel saggio di Daniela Leonardi intitolato ‘La colpa di non avere un tetto: Homelessness tra stigma e stereotipi’ Questo Mercoledì, 22 Sett,
If you are attending the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, don’t miss tomorrow’s (9th Sept 2021) roundtable on ‘Worldwide perspectives on (in)justice in planning with a focus on housing precarity’. Featuring Verónica Gago, Renu Khosla, Theresa
Oggi è uscito un ulteriore bando per un assegno junior sul mio progetto ERC — si tratta di un anno rinnovabile, aperto a persone interessate alla componente gestionale e di programmazione europea del progetto. Il
Join AbdouMaliq Simone & me today #RC21Antwerp for a wonderful panel with Gautam Bhan, Rupali Gupte, Ratoola Kundu, Anant Maringanti & Prasad Shetty “What Difference Does a Year Make: Indian Urban Worlds. A conversation
“Libya has long been unsafe for refugees and migrants. Both state and non-state actors subject them to a catalogue of human rights violations and abuses including unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment, rape and other
Dear Colleagues, The job adverts for the 5 post-doctoral positions I am currently offering have opened. In what follows, I am summarising the jobs on offer, and providing the related links to reach the application
In the collective imaginary – but also in much detrimental journalistic and scholarly ‘work’ – #SkidRow in #LosAngeles is presented only as a place of neglect and despair. Yet, as bell hooks taught us, margins
