Research Projects
Competitively funded projects (PI/CO-I)
(2022-2026) FARE La precarietà abitativa nell’Europa dell’Est: storie, geografie ed economie politiche urbane
(2020-2025) ERC Starting Grant “Inhabiting Radical Housing ” (click here for an overview of the project’s results)
(2019) Antipode International Workshop Awards, con il Radical Housing Journal (Co-I)
(2018) Antipode Scholar-Activist award, con FCDL (PI)
(2015) Foreign Researchers Scholarship Award, Romanian Cultural Institute (PI)
(2013-2016) Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellowship (PI)
(2011-2013) UTS Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PI)
Competitively funded projects (Mentor)
(2023-2026) Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship Global (Mentor) – Environmental gentrification and emerging collectives in uncertain times – PI: Dr Daniela Giudici
(2022-2025) Urban Studies Foundation Post-Doc Fellowship (Mentor) – Dwelling in the smart city: The politics and (re)structuring of power in/through smart housing in India – PI: Dr Jenifa Zahan
(2023-2024) Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship (Mentor) – Climate just housing: Towards more sustainable urban environments for all – PI: Dr Melissa García-Lamarca
Policy and advisory work
(2023-ongoing) Scientific advisor, Welfare Department of the Municipality of Naples, for the designand implementation of housing-led approaches to homelessness, Italy
(2018) Commissioned to compile a report on‘Housing First’for the NGO Shelter, UK
(2017) Offered training to practitioners working in the homelessness sector in Wales, as well as to members of the Welsh Assembly, on the‘Housing First’ policy, UK
(2014-2015) Commissioned a report on how to implement a harm reduction approach to homeless people and drug users for the NGO Carusel, Romania
(2013-2014) Member of the Scientific Committee of the‘Housing First Network’ in Italy, sponsored by FEANTSA (the organisation of the associations working with the homeless), Italy
Teaching, PhD and Postdoctoral mentoring
In Turin, I am the Director of the Master Degree in Geography and Territorial Sciences. I lead two Master modules, both taught in English. One on ‘Geography: theory and practice’, the other on “Racialised and Gendered cities”. I also teach a course on research ethics an qualitative methods in the PhD program, and I co-teach a further Master-level module on “Urban Economies”.
I currently supervise a number of students internationally and I am interested in working with new, highly motivated, candidates interested in working with decolonial, feminist, and critical ethnographic approaches to the contemporary urban.
Current PhD candidates
– Ms Giulia Corgnier, primary supervisor (Polytechnic of Turin), continuum of racialised carcerality in Turin
– Ms Caterina Ciarleglio, secondary supervisor (Polytechnic of Turin)
Completed PhD supervisions
– Dr Alessandra Mossa, primary supervisor (Polytechnic of Turin), geographies of madness and mental health in Turin
– Dr Saanchi Saxena, primary supervisor (Polytechnic of Turin), gender, caste and marginality of street vendors in Mumbai
– Dr Francesca Guarino (Sheffield University, primary supervisor), migration, third sector services and public space in Palermo;
– Dr Sri Suryani (Sheffield University, primary supervisor), environmental displacement and dwelling in Jakarta
– Dr Stephanie Lacey (Sheffield University, primary supervisor), motherhood and homelessness in Manchester
– Ms Martyna Piliszewska (Sheffield University, primary supervisor for three years), homelessness amongst CEE migrants in the north of the UK
– Dr Victorie Okoye, secondary supervisor (Sheffield University), participatory methods, marginality and community building in Accra, Ghana
– Dr Eirini Glynou-Lefaki, external supervisor (GSSI, Italy), everyday life and the politics of walking in l’Aquila
PhD evaluations
I have been part of 17 PhD examination committees, in the UK, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Romania.
Postdoctoral mentoring
(2021-ongoing) I have been mentoring a team of 13 post-doctoral researchers, working as part of my ERC and FARE project, as well as Marie-Curie an USF fellowships
(2018-2021) Urban Studies Early Career mentor, Faculty of Social Science, University of Sheffield
(2018-2020) Mentor of one Post-Doctoral Leverhulme ECR fellowship
Publications
Monographs
Lancione, M. (2023) For a Liberatory Politics of Home. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
304 Pages, 7 illustration, $28.95
“Michele Lancione has given us a tremendous gift with this pathbreaking and brilliant book. […] The study of housing and homelessness will not be the same.” — Ananya Roy
“[T]his book offers a whole new perspective to imagine housing futures toward housing justice in which ‘housing precarity’ is not only a site for deprivation and relegation or a ‘problem to be fixed’ but can also perform a new politics of inhabitation.” — Raquel Rolnik
Edited volumes
Amin, A. and Lancione, M, eds. (2022) Grammars of the Urban Ground. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Contributor(s): Natalie Oswin, Ananya Roy, Colin McFarlane, Nigel Thrift, Mariana Valverde, Teresa P. R. Caldeira, Filip de Boeck, Caroline Knowles, Edgar Pieterse, Tatiana Thieme, AbdouMaliq Simone, Suzanne M. Hall
264 Pages, $26.95, Open Access at Read.Duke, thanks to BA support.
“A radical, experimental agenda for the twenty-first century” – Ravi Sundaram
“An outstanding work” – Sakia Sassen
Lancione, M. and McFarlane, C. eds., (2021) Global Urbanism. Knowledge, Power and the City. London: Routledge.
46 authors, 39 chapters, including essays and interviews with scholars and activists worldwide.
370 Pages, 31 B/W Illustrations
GBP £34.99 (Paperback)
“Global Urbanism will serve as a guidepost for how we reflect about and act upon urbanization for the foreseeable future.” Professor Roger Keil, York University, Canada
Lancione, M. ed., (2016) Rethinking Life at the Margins. The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects and Politics, London: Routledge.
‘This excellent collection brings a new focus to an enduring and vital question: how is urban marginality produced, lived and contested? […] An important contribution to debates on urban life and inequality’ Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK
‘This impressive volume, with its masterful introduction, is illuminating and essential reading for urbanists determined to rethink and remake the city anew.’ Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Ethnographic Films, Novels, Activist & Collective books
Lancione, M. (2023) Università e Militarizzazione: Il duplice uso della libertà di ricerca, which means “University and Militarisation: The dual use of research freedom”. ERIS Edizioni, Turin.
One of the very few short books exploring the relationship between the Academic world and the Military sector. Written as a guide for students, educators and academics, on the basis of my own activism against the relationship of my Polytechnic with the EU Frontex Agency. More info, in English and Italian, here.
FCDL, (2019) Jurnal din Vulturilor 50: Povestea unei lupte pentru dreptate locative, which means “Diary of Vulturilor: The story of a fight for housing justice”. IDEA, Cluj-Napoca
The first book on the fight for the right to housing written by an activist Roma woman, produced collectively by the Common Front of the Right to Housing (FCDL), with the support of the Antipode Scholar-Activist Award.
Before the book, it came the community blog, which I have set up with FCDL and maintained during the 2-year community resistance. Available at JurnalDinVulturilor50.org
Lancione M. (2017) A început ploaia (It started raining). A feature documentary around evictions and the fight for housing in Bucharest, Romania. Cardiff: A Community Productions.
Official webpage: www.ainceputploaia.com.
Romania, Italy, UK – 72 minutes
Substitles in Hungarian, Czech, German, Italian, French and Spanish
Download the press kit here.
Read how we did the film here.
Lancione M. (2011) Il numero 1 (The number 1). An ethnographic novel around homelessness in Turin, Italy, Eris Edizioni, Turin.
Read more: in a paper in S&CG about the book (in English)
Buy online (in Italian).
Academic papers
Corgnier, Giulia, Michele Lancione, Patrícia Nunes Gomes, and Devra Waldman. (2025). ‘Frontex and the University: Positivist Dissonance and the Institutionalisation of Border Violence through Research’. Antipode n/a (n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70090.
Lancione, Michele, and AbdouMaliq Simone (2024). ‘Dispossessed Exposures. Housing and Regimes of the Visible’. EPD: Society & Space.
Lancione, M., (2023) Radical Housing Justice Within and Beyond Caring. Antipode, June, anti.12958. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12958.
Lancione, M. (2022). Inhabiting Dispossession in the Post-Socialist City: Race, Class and the Plan in Bucharest, Romania, Antipode, DOI: 10.1111/anti.12821 (Open Access)
Lancione, M, and A. Simone (2021). ‘Dwelling in Liminalities, Thinking beyond Inhabitation’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Online First.
Lancione, M. (2020) Underground inscriptions, Cultural Anthropology, 35:1, 31-39
Lancione M, Stefanizzi A and Gaboardi M (2018) Passive adaptation or active engagement ? The challenges of Housing First internationally and in the Italian case. Housing Studies, 33(1), 40-57, DOI: 10.1080/026
Lancione, M. (2017). Revitalising the uncanny : Challenging inertia in the struggle against forced evictions. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 35(6), 1012-1032, http://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817701731
Lancione, M. (2017). Micropolitical entanglements: Positioning and matter. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(4), 574–578.
Lancione, M. (2016) Racialised dissatisfaction: Homeless management and the everyday assemblage of difference, Transactions of the Institute of the British Geographers, 41, 363-375.
Lancione, Michele, and Colin McFarlane. 2016. “Life at the Urban Margins: Sanitation Infra-Making and the Potential of Experimental Comparison.” JOUR. Environment and Planning A , July. doi:10.1177/0308518X16659772 .
Lancione, M., (2016). The ethnographic novel as activist mode of existence: translating the field with homeless people and beyond. Social & Cultural Geography, 9365(October), pp.1–22. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2016.1231336.
Lancione M (2016) Beyond Homelessness Studies. European Journal of Homelessness 10(3): 163–176.
Lancione, M. and Clegg, S.R. (2015), The Lightness of Management Learning, Management Learning, 46:3, 280-298
Lancione, M. (2015). Housing First: Successo, Modelli E Sfide Politiche (Housing First: Success, Models and Policy Challenges). Psicologia Di Comunità, no. 2, 23–40.
Lancione, M. (2014), Entanglements of faith: Discourses, practices of care and homeless people in an Italian city of Saints, Urban Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0042098013514620
Lancione, M. (2014), Assemblages of care and the analysis of public policies on homelessness in Turin, Italy, City, 18:1, 25-40
Lancione, M. (2014), “The Spectacle of the Poor. Or: ‘Wow!! Awesome. Nice to Know That People Care!’” Social & Cultural Geography, 15:7, 693-713
Lancione, M. (2013). How is Homelessness? European Journal of Homelessness, 7(2), 237–248.
Lancione, M. (2013), Homeless people and the city of abstract machine. Assemblage thinking and the performative approach to homelessness. Area, 45:3, p. 358-364
Lancione, M. (2013), Introduction: Telescopic Urbanism and the Urban Poor: Symposium, City, 17:4, p. 474-75
Lancione, M. (2013), Truthful social science or: how we learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, (Critical review of B. Flybvjerg “Real Social Science. Applied Phronesis”), The Journal of Political Power, 6:1, p. 147-155
Lancione, M., Clegg, S.R., (2013), The chronotopes of change: Actor-networks in a changing Business School, The Journal of Change Management, 13:2, p. 117–142 -> The article has been nominated as one of the 5 best papers at the EGOS 2013 conference
Cunha, P.M., Rego, A., Clegg, S. and Lancione, M. (2012), Organizing a utopian State of Exception: The case of the S-21 extermination camp, Phnom Penh, The Journal of Political Power, 5:2, p. 279-299
Lancione, M. (2010) “Giustizia sociale, spazio e città” (Social justice, space and the city), in Rivista Geografica Italiana, 117 (4), pp. 625-652 – in Italian
Governa, F., De Luca, A., Lancione, M. (2009) “Le politiche della casa in Europa” (Housing policies in Europe), in Rivista Geografica Italiana, 116 (3) – in Italian
Reviews, Forums & other essays
Gray-Garcia, L. T., and Lancione, M. (2025), A coversation around Lisa Tiny’s “WeSearch, Reparations and RiSearch”, Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property, Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, Los Angeles
Lancione, M. and Simone, A. (2025), Tacit Alliances, Not Knowing Toghetherness, Lo Squaderno, 70
Lancione, M. (2025) A response to reviewers for a Review Forum of my book “For a Liberatory Politics of Home”, Urban Studies, Online first.
Lancione, M. (2024) Risposta ai recensori del mio libro “For a Liberatory Politics of Home”, Rivista Geografica Italiana
Amin, Ash, and Michele Lancione. 2023. ‘Urban Words and Worlds’. Dialogues in Urban Research, OnlineFirst.
Lancione, M. 2021. ‘Il Corpo e l’uso Politico Della Metafora Geografica’. Rivista Geografica Italiana 4: 172–79.
Lancione, M. and Simone, A. (2020) Bio-austerity and Solidarity in the Covid-19 Space of Emergency, Society & Space on-line blog
City Editorial Collective, (2020), For the City yet to come. City, 24(1-2),1-4
RHJ Editorial Collective, (2020), Covid-19 and housing struggles: The (re)makings of austerity, disaster capitalism, and the no return to normal, Radical Housing Journal, Vol 2(1): 09-28
Lancione, M. (2020) Otherwise care from the underground, in Arts for the Working Class
Lancione, M. 2019. Oltre il profilo: per una etnografia urbana del molteplice e del politico. Quaderni di Sociologia 81(LXIII):111–19. doi: 10.4000/qds.3528.
Lancione, M. (2019), Recentering the politics of home from within and from below, in Arts of the Working Class
Lancione, M. (2019). Caring for the endurance of a collective struggle. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(2), 216–219. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619850362
Lancione, M. (2019) Review of AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse 2017: New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times. Cambridge: Polity Press published in IJURR, available here.
Lancione, M. (2018), Review of Arapoglou, V. and Gounis, K., “Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness in Southern Europe: Reflections from Athens”, EjoH, 13:1, 119-122
Lancione, M. (2017) “There is Nothing Like the City” (book review of Amin and Thrift ‘Seeing like a city’), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, available here.
Lancione, M. (2016) “Unfolding the surface of occupation” (book review of A. Vasudevan, 2015, Metropolitan Preoccupations), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, available here.
Lancione, M. (2012) “Architecture in the space of flows” (book review), by Ballantyne, A., and Smith, C.L., Construction management and economics, 30(3), 253-255 – in English
Lancione, M. (2009) “The spaces of the modern city” (book review), by Prakash and Kuse (ed), Urban Research & Practice, 3(1), 114-118 – in English
Lancione, M. (2008) “Scenari strategici“ (book review), by Magnaghi, A., Rivista Geografica Italiana, 115(4), 2008 – in Italian
Essays in edited volumes
Lancione, M. 2025. ‘Post-socialist racial geographies studies’, in Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence Learning from Eastern Europe
edited by F. Alexandrescu, R. Powell, A. Vilenica; London: Routledge.
Lancione, M., and C. McFarlane. 2021. ‘Navigating the Global Urban’. Pp. 3–13 in Global Urbanism, edited by M. Lancione and C. McFarlane. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge.
Governa, F., and M. Lancione. 2020. ‘Vedere Come Una Città: Introduzione’. in Vedere come una Città (traduzione Italiana di Seeing Like a City). Rome: Mimesis.
Lancione, M. 2020. Abitare Una Liberazione. in Senza Metropoliz non è la mia città. Rome: Bordeaux.
Lancione, M. 2020. ‘Activism, Research and Film-Making’. in The Handbook of Displacement, edited by P. Adey, J. C. Bowstead, K. Brickell, V. Desai, M. Dolton, A. Pinkerton, and A. Siddiqi. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Lancione, M. 2020. ‘Ethics from the Underground’. in Thinking Home on the Move: A Conversation across Disciplines, edited by P. Boccagni, L. E. PéRez Murcia, and M. Belloni. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Lancione, M. 2020. ‘L’autre: In Dialogo Con Michele Lancione’. in Exploring Identities. Perspectives from a cross-disciplinary dialogue, Quaderni di urbanistica, edited by S. Cremaschi, S. Marconcini, and L. Marinaro. Rome: Quolibet.
Lancione, M. (2020). Bucarest: Citta’ sotterranea. In P. Piscitelli (Ed.), Atlante delle citta’. Nove (ri)tratti urbani per un viaggio planetario. (pp. 121–136). Milano: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.
Lancione, M. (2019). Pathways to the Machinic Subject. In T. Jellis, J. Gerlach, & J.-D. Dewsbury (Eds.), Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics. London: Routledge.
Lancione, M. (2019) Getting Rid of Home. In Lassy, J. and S. Turunen (eds.), Homelessness in 2030. Essays on Possible Futures. Y-Foundation, Keuruu.
Lancione, M. (2019), “Placing urban difference”, in Amin, A (ed), Governing the plural city, London and Delhi: British Academy and National Institute of Urban Affairs.
Ballin, E., and M. Lancione. 2019. ‘Waking up to Homelessness’. Primary Geography, 4.
Lancione, M. (2016). “The Assemblage of Life at the Margins”, In: M. Lancione, ed., Rethinking Life at the Margins. The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects and Politics. Routledge, London.
Lancione, M. (2015), “Context. Experiencing the City”, in Naar, L. and Clegg, S., Gehry in Sydney. The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, UTS, Images Publishing, Mulgrave, pp. 17-32
Lancione, M. (2015), “Commission. A Changing Business School”, in Naar, L. and Clegg, S., Gehry in Sydney. The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, UTS, Images Publishing, Mulgrave, pp. 33-42
Governa, F., Lancione, M. (2010), La città del sociale: dalle immagini come retoriche alle “non-rappresentazioni” come pratiche (A “social” city: from the use of images as rhetoric to practice of “non-representation”), in Santangelo, Vanolo “Di capitale importanza”, Carocci, Roma – in Italian
De Luca, A., Lancione, M. (2010), La nuova questione abitativa: disagio, politiche e territorio urbano (The new housing question: discomfort, policies and urban space), in Santangelo, Vanolo “Di capitale importanza”, Carocci, Roma – in Italian
Lancione, M. (2008), Gipsies and urban policies: among problems and ambiguities, depth analysis box in “L’Italia delle città: tra malessere e trasfigurazione”, Società Geografica Italiana, Roma – in Italian
Lancione, M. (2008), Social housing in European Union (15) and the role of the cities, depth analysis box in “L’Italia delle città: tra malessere e trasfigurazione”, Società Geografica Italiana, Roma – in Italian
Keynote speeches
– 2025, “What kind of home and for whom”, Keynote at the ‘Idea(l)s of home’ workshop, Technische Universität, Berlin, 10th October 2025
– 2025, “The Impossible Possibility of Home”, Keynote at the Withe Rose Doctoral Partnership conference, Sheffield, 17th June 2025
– 2025, “The colonies of home”, Keynote at the Swiss City Collaboratory Network, Geneva, 23th May 2025
– 2024, “For a Liberatory Politics of Home”, Keynote at the UULP seminar at KU Leuven, Brussels,17th May 2024
– 2023, “The Impossible Possibility of Home”, Keynote at the Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies. 3rd ed. ICS-ULisboa, 8-10 Nov 2023
– 2022, Keynote address at the two-day research workshop on “Evictability: Understanding the nexus of migration and urban displacements”, at the Malmö University Institute for Urban Research, June 2022
– 2021, “The false symmetry of research-activism. Towards accomplicenship and undercommon praxis”, keynote with Veda Popovici at the RGS-IBG Urban Geography research group conference, November 2021
– 2021, “Race, class and the plan, in Bucharest, Romania”, keynote at the DASTU, Polytechnic of Milan, at their “Planning for Social Justice” event, October 2021
– 2021, “Inhabiting dispossession in the post-socialist city: storylines, embodied struggles, and emplacement”, keynote speech at the international workshops “Migrant and Minority Activism: Between protest movements and everyday engagement”, organised by ZOiS Berlinand the EASA Anthropology of Social Movements Network, Berlin, September 2021
– 2021, “Curare a parte. Bio-austerità e geografia politica interstiziale”, keynote speech at the event “Dagli spazi di percezione agli spazi della politica”, organised by PhD students in Geography at the University of Padova, June 2021
– 2019, “On Lessness: Recentering the politics of home”, invited keynote at the 7th EUGEO Congress, in conjunction with the 51st Conference of Irish Geographers, Dublin, May 2019
– 2019, “Radical Housing: On the politics of dwelling as difference”, invited keynote at the 2019 UK Housing Studies Association Conference, Sheffield, April 2019
– 2018, “Minor ethnographies and the activist mode of existence”, keynote speech at Politicising Public Health: A Workshop for Early Career Ethnographers, LSHTM, London, October 2018
– 2017, “Beyond homelessness study”, keynote speech At the European Observatory on Homelessness Conference in Barcelona, September 2017
– 2015, “The Adaptation of Housing First” keynote at the international conference X Stratagemma. La prevenzione nella scuola e nella comunità: rigenerare la qualità della vita, Padova, 25 June 2015
Interviews and public events (partial)
2025/04-07, Invited speaker for a series of activists and students-led event on the relationship between the military and the university, and of the Palestian people genocide, Turin, Bologna, Palermo and Naples, Italy
2025/05, Invited discussant for the launch of the documentary film about the unionised anti- militarist portual dock workers of Genoa, Fondazione Museo del Cinema, Turin
2025/02, Invited speaker for an event on the current war conjuction, University of Bologna, Italy
2023/10-2024/06, Extensive interviews on Italian national newspaper on the relationship between universities and the military sector
2023/10-12 – Dozens of interviews on my book “Università e Militarizzazione” with Italian magazines and radios. An example is this one with Altreconomia, translated by me in English here.
2023/03 – Interview on Border Criminologies on Frontex and the EU border regime, available here.
2022/06 – Interview with the WOZ (Die Wochenzeitung, a Swiss-German critical Left newspaper), on urbanity, radical housing and the meaning of academic work. Available in German here, and in automated English transaltion here.
2022/01 – Interview with Border Radio, available as a Podcast on Spotify
2021/11 – Multiple interviews with L’Internazionale, Gruppo Melitea, StateWatch and others, as well as open letter to Il Manifesto on the DIST-Polito-FRONTEX case. Also, video of public intervention with students at the humanity faculty in Turin (min 13-39″). The story behind all of this is here.
2021/10 – Interviews with Radio Blackout on the agreement my Department has made with Frontex. The story is here.
2020/10 – Interview by Sara Caramaschi & Sebastiano Marconcini, L’autre. In dialogue with Michele Lancione, published in “iQuaderni di U3”, Quodilibet, in English (avalable online)
2019/04 – Interview and podcast by the journal dérive (Vienna) on the fight for the right to housing in Eastern Europe. Available here.
2019/03 – Interview and podcast for the Relational Poverty Network (USA-based) series on ‘New Poverty Politics’. The focus is on ‘Collaborative Art Praxis to Challenge Homelessness’, with Rhoda Rosen and Billy McGuinness. Available here.
2018/09 – Interview with Milena Belloni of the ERC-StG “HOMInG” project (lead by Paolo Boccagni) on ‘home among the homeless’. Available here.
2015/11 – Interview with the Romanian magazine Scena9 on my work with the Vulturilor community in Bucharest, here.
2015/08 – Interviewed by and collaborated with Max Daly for the piece ‘Bucharest’s Drug-Addicted Roma Are Being Left to Rot’, published on VICE US. Available here.
2015/06 – Interviewed for the piece ‘In Search of a Drug Consumption Room – The Open Veins of Drug Users’, published in Romanian and English on Drug Link. Available here.
2012/10 – Radio Flash, Turin: Interview on the homelessness situation in the city. Available here.
2011/08 – La Repubblica (Italian national newspaper), interviewed by Luca Rastello on my work in Sydney.
Other Works (partial)
2025, Articles in the national newspaper “Il Manifesto” against the relationship of Italian Universities with the Military sector and against the relationship of Italian academia with the State of Israel
2023/10 – Università e Militarizzazione: Il Duplice uso della Libertà di Ricerca (Eris Edizioni)
2021/10 – Public letter to fight an agreement my Department has made with Frontex. Interviews with La Repubblica, Radio Blackout and others have followed. The original letter in Italian is here, while the story in English here.
2021/03 – Video response to the Los Angeles Poverty Department ‘Walk the Talk’ archive of Skid Row residents and performers (here)
2020/03 – ‘Bio-austerity and Solidarity in the Covid-19 Space of Emergency’ with AbdouMaliq Simone, Society & Space blog (here)
2019/12 – Piece for the Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto, on the UK election (here)
2019/10 – Piece for the street newspaper ‘Arts of the Working Class’, on care
2017/02 – Release of my feature ethnographic documentary about forced evictions against Roma people in Bucharest, Romania, entitled ‘A început ploaia’ (It started to rain). Info on all the international screenings at www.ainceputploaia.com
2016/05 – Written introduction to the photographic book ‘Inside, Outside, Under Bucharest’ by photographers Massimo Branca and Ivan Marchesan.
2015/10 – An article entitled ‘Eviction and Housing Racism in Bucharest’ has been published by Open Democracy, available here. The same piece was translated into Romanian in ‘TOTB’, here.
2014/12 – Some of my pictures were used by AlJazeera’s journalist Paul Brennan to complete his video reportage of the evicted people of Vulturilor st, in Bucharest, Romania. They can be found in this video.
2014/11 – “Romania, Lucruilui Bine Facut”, Thinkpiece on housing policy and political situation in Romania before 2014’s election. Available here.
2013/04 – “How is homelessness? Objects, codes, and poetry to re-imaging what we are talking about”, Paper on homelessness for a street-based magazine in the UK, The Nervemeter, (distributed in London). Available here.
2012/10 – “I senza dimora a Torino. Alcune note di campo”. Policy paper address to the private and public services providers for homelessness in Turin. Available here.
2011/06 – “Il Numero 1”, Novel based on my PhD dissertation on homelessness. Turin, Eris Edizioni
The list of seminars and conference participation is in my CV.
