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Discussing For a Liberatory Politics of Home in Turin – 13th April (in ITA)

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, 2023)

Gabriele Proglio, Sandro Busso, Antonella Meo, and Daniela Leonardi will be there to contribute their perspectives and engage in dialogue.

I am very thankful to Daniela for organising!

For those who wish to participate, see you on April 13 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM at the Campus Einaudi in Turin.

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Today in Bologna, discussing Southern Urbanism

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, starting with a Manifesto by Ranabir Samaddar and a book edited by him, Sandro and Enrica Morlicchio.

I will discuss the importance of centring the intersection between reproductive labour and racial capitalism to theorise cities – and cityness – from and with (any) South.

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A new review of For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Ryan Powell in Space and Polity

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 and potential of higher-level theoretical syntheses. Ultimately, Lancione offers a radical re-orientation as an aid for us in making sense of an incredibly complex, ambivalent and contradictory mode of inhabitation in the contemporary period. A brilliant achievement that others must surely build upon.”

Read the full text here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562576.2025.2554983

Many other reviews can be found on Duke University’s website: https://www.dukeupress.edu/for-a-liberatory-politics-of-home

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New report by TNI on Universities and EU Border Regime with a foreword on ‘no need for defence’

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 Regime. The report is a must-read to understand the extent of the constitutive work between agencies such as Frontex and our University sector in Europe. 

I had the pleasure of writing the foreword, in which I discuss borders, the military, and the Academy through the framework of ‘no need for defence’. 

Please download, engage and circulate: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/border-labs

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Student fair at Polito – come and get to know our Master’s in Geography

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 a chat, pick up a brochure, and learn more about our program.

On Saturday at 2:15 PM, we’ll also be holding an introductory session for the Master’s program (Salone d’Onore). Everyone is welcome!

Info about the open day: https://www.polito.it/en/education/applying-studying-graduating/choosing-a-degree-programme/polito-open-days

Learn about the master: https://www.geography.unito.it/do/home.pl

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Wonderful keynote by Gilmore #UCLA with Ananya Roy

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 capitalism, racial banishment and organising, delivered in front of a packed theatre. The day after Ruthie’s talk, the Institute brought together many of the people who have intersected with its trajectory over the past years – organisers from LA and the US, as well as scholars from elsewhere. I am deeply thankful to Ananya, Hannah and Kian for organising and for having me there, and for allowing me to share some of my recent work from Naples.

The Institute has been important to me: a real model for organising action and scholarship within and beyond academia. With the change in leadership, its future will be different from the past 10 years. Yet I am sure the people who populate it will continue their solid housing justice and racial justice work for years to come.

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Beyond Inhabitation Lab 2026 Spring Seminar Series

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 and Veronika Zablotsky (with a guest discussion by Ash Amin and Ida Danewid), Samia Henni, and Iain Chambers.

The events will all take place in person – in Sala Vigliano, Castello del Valentino, Torino – and online. To attend online, you need to register at the link provided on each of the posters.

In the PDF below, you can find some general information, while on our events page, you will be able to download the individual poster for each event.

We look forward to seeing you at our 2026 Spring Seminar Series!

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Two interviews on ERC results and my approach to home(lessness) in Altreconomia (in ITA)

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 some of the researchers who have worked with me over the years: Ana Vilenica, Mara Ferreri, Daniela Morpurgo, and Rodrigo Castriota.

In the second piece, Luca and I discuss what it means to think and act in favor of a liberating approach to housing and homing.

An overview of the project’s results can be found here.

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La conoscenza non marcia – An Anti-Militarist Campaign from the University

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 public education and the military-industrial complex, and thus its complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people. It aims to reverse the tendency of our education system to be an instrument of war policies.

The campaign continues the work some of us have done in the past years to fight the constitution of an Academic-Military Industrial Complex in Italy and Europe. Much has been done in recent years on this front, including with the student movement against the genocide of the Palestinian people at the hands of Israel in Palestine. From my side, I began by examining the arrival of Frontex in my Department in 2021 (here, a recent publication on the matter in Antipode; here a post on how the story unfolded), and then I centred the problem of the relationship between the Italian University and the Military in this pamphlet.

The assembly is open to all; more info on how to join is here.

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Racialised and Gendered Cities: new Master’s module

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 at the University of Turin. The official page of the module is here.

It took me a long time to design this thing, but I enjoyed the process every step of the way. The idea is to cover some basic terrain on racialization and space, Black Geographies, feminist and queer theory and practice, and then to offer specific critical perspectives on selected themes. I am thankful to the colleagues who accepted the invitation to come and discuss their work in class, and I look forward to the conversations with students.

Below you can find the syllabus.

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