For a Liberatory Politics of Home, out
@DukePress
Can we imagine a 'home' that does not require the constitution & colonization of an alterity to stand?
In violent times, to question violent binaries, looking for a language of radical affirmations.
(i)
My Department is creating maps for
#Frontex
, the EU border control agency, which is involved in the violent pushbacks of refugees.
I wrote
@altreconomia
to dissociate myself & fight this deal. Universities are complicit in bordering & racial violence: it needs to stop!
Links 👇
A little news decided in early 2020 but effective as of 1/21….
I am now full Professor/Chair in Urban Studies
@Urban_Inst
,
@SheffSocScience
Keep me in check for a wilder ride, for how I’ll exploit this position, for the collectivities I am indebted to & future ones (1/6)
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 culture and power
in ways I had never experienced before.
thank you for that & all you taught -
#bellhooks
2020 has been hard on my family --
-- so after 13 years abroad, from 1st April (no fool!) I'll return to Italy & take up a full professorship in Geography
@PoliTOnews
Below, the countryside I grew up in (& the only bridge we had to do tagging as kids) /1
The book I've co-edited with Ash Amin, "Grammars of the Urban Ground" is now out
@DukePress
Get 30% off with code E22GRMMR
Many years in the making, germinated into a remarkable (open access 👇) compendium of critical urban lexicons from key thinkers (i)
In 2018 the wonderful
@ColinMcFarlane3
asked me to think together
#GlobalUrbanism
Three years & 46 authors later, here comes a beast of essays & interviews with scholars & activists from around the world
👍
@RoutledgeGPU
for making it paperback
Preorder
** JOB OPPORTUNITIES **
Soon I'll hire for my
@ERC_Research
Inhabiting Radical Housing, in Turin
Five 3-year post-doctoral positions / English as working language / Global research around politics of radical inhabitation
Info:
Please circulate widely!
I am 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
@IJURResearch
Get in touch if you have original high-quality content!
Thanks to the entire board for having me ✨
In
#Turin
we are launching a new
#Urban
and
#Political
#Geography
pathway within our Master in Geography and Territorial Sciences.
All in English | With leading scholars | Beautiful City | Low tuition fees.
From Sept 2023. Check the full brochure:
👇
The syllabus for my 2022/2023 Master-level module on Geography, Theory and Practice, which I teach in Turin, is available here: .
It offers an introduction to critical geographical thinking, with a focus on how it developed in Anglophone Geography.
Huge congratulations to my PhD candidate
@saanchi_saxena
for her first wonderful paper!
"Gender, caste, and street vending in India: Towards an intersectional geography" in Area
@RGS_IBGhe
Excited to share my first ever publication!! I review the literature on gender & street vending & call for an
#intersectionalfeminist
research agenda that is attentive to the co-constitution of caste, gender & urban space in India
@RGS_IBGhe
For a Liberatory Politics of Home
@DukePress
is out in Nov 2023, but it can now be pre-ordered with a 30% discount on the paperback.
Use coupon code E23LANCN at checkout ($20.27/£17.50 with discount).
Thanks for your interest and support!
#home
#homelessness
#HousingJustice
It's a privilege for me to join
@IJURResearch
as their new Corresponding Editor for Europe. I will look for cutting-edge content on housing struggles, the politics of life at the margins & visual methods. This adds on collective work
@CITYanalysis
@Radical_Housing
Exciting stuff!
UPDATE: the Polytechnic decided to keep the agreement with
#Fontex
. My Department will make maps for the Agency.
I am enraged, & motivated. I will continue to fight Frontex & to construct spaces for radical action.
Thanks for all the support!
More:
Please join
@franchiodelli
@CamilloBoano
and yours truly for our forthcoming seminars with two very distinguished guests:
20 April 4pm CET, Ash Amin on "Space/Subjectivity"
21 April 4pm CET,
@ColinMcFarlane3
on his new book, "Fragments of the city"
Reg links in the fliers 👇
World! Today we are launching our "Beyond Inhabitation: A Collective Study Lab"
The Lab offers a new infrastructure to investigate the politics of inhabitation globally.
Check out & follow
@InhabitationLab
Co-directed
@michelelancione
@XazaarAdjame
(1)
For a few weeks, we have been working to stop an agreement between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State of Israel to finance 'scientific projects' that can lead to military use.
Tomorrow we strike nationally.
Here is a short recap in ENG
ABOLISH FRONTEX INTERNATIONAL ACTION DAY – 20 JUNE 2023
Why we need to
#AbolishFrontex
now:
On fighting to keep Frontex outside of our Universities, two recent interviews:
- ENG
- ITA
@abolishfrontex
Wonderful result in the housing referendum in
#berlin
The City is invited to expropriate dwellings from large landlord (>3k units each) & make those public. We are talking ~200k units.
Not binding, but so powerful & liberatory. Well done
#dwenteignen
!
Something a bit personal. I am turning 40 today & I want to feed the algorithm with a random list of living things I love () sparkled with a pic of my sis & I. So much pain & loss & care in the past years. So much I learned in being with u. Thanks | Avanti!
Applications welcome to participate in a workshop on 23-24 May 2024, Sheffield (UK), on ‘The epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation’
Organised jointly by the
@Urban_Inst
and our
@InhabitationLab
Send in your 250-word abstracts before 25th March.
Info:
Applications are now open for the 5 Post-Docs I am offering on my
#InhabitingRadicalHousing
@ERC_Research
project
@PoliTOnews
in Turin, Italy.
For all specifications and procedures, please read:
DEADLINE 22/7/21, 3PM CEST - Important notes below.
Peace!
Twitter! Today we are launching the first book written by an activist Roma woman on housing struggles. It’s our (FCDL) super-powerful collective feminist tale of housing fights supported
@antipodeonline
. This is the project I am most proud of . ENG in 2020!
Starting today a new intro module on Geography, Theory & Practice in Turin with a focus on the colonial roots of the discipline, discussing critical grammars of genderised, racialised & uneven spatialities.
Looking forward to trying it, & then expand & share syllabus next year!
Just a reminder for the Beyond
@InhabitationLab
& Urban Transitions Hub joint summer school in Turin & Lisbon.
Keynote instructors: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alana Osbourne, Tatiana Thieme, AbdouMaliq Simone, and Filip De Boeck.
Apply by 30th April 2024 👉
Practicing resistance also means studying, as a radical care toward ourselves, our Palestinian brothers & sisters & the people dissenting from within Israel.
Thanks
@VersoBooks
, for these excellent free resources:
Full statement:
Coming back to
#Sheffield
I had the absolute pleasure to chat with the wonderful
@MagicMagid
- Green Party MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber
@EuropeanParl
. Such a generous, down to earth and radical man. Thanks Magid!
Hiring internationally, from a Uni out of the Anglophone world, is VERY hard work.
While disappointed by some (never apply for jobs you don't want!) I'm thrilled we have now selected 5 terrific scholars out of 49 we interviewed!!
More in the fall
#InhabithingRadicalHousing
Tomorrow for the first time right inside the Politecnico, a collective assembly with activist, students, researchers and journalists will discuss on why we need to keep
#Frontex
out of our Universities
Also on Zoom, in ITA:
Happy to be in Brussels for the Spatial Justice UULP day. I will be offering one of the two keynotes on my recent book, For a Liberatory Politics of Home
@DukePress
Here is
#Pride
Week - a great moment to join the city as a non-binary person & discuss
#homing
beyond
I am thrilled to take part in "Decentring Critical Urban Scholarship: Conversations with
@IJURResearch
"
I will introduce the work of
@InhabitationLab
together with other Labs located across the globe.
Thursday, 3rd November, 5-8pm UK time
Register at:
One year ago, from the semi-periphery with love,
@XazaarAdjame
we launched the Beyond
@InhabitationLab
9 ERC Fellows
2 Marie-Curies
1 USF Fellow
1 FARE Fellow
10 steering members+affiliates
Seminars, writing, research & care from Turin.
Check events at
World! Today we are launching our "Beyond Inhabitation: A Collective Study Lab"
The Lab offers a new infrastructure to investigate the politics of inhabitation globally.
Check out & follow
@InhabitationLab
Co-directed
@michelelancione
@XazaarAdjame
Around 10 fully-paid PhD positions in
#urbanstudies
are available at the doctoral program in Urban and Regional Development, Politecnico and University of Turin
Deadlines: May 13. Info:
Who passed her PhD viva today WITHOUT corrections?!?!?
The wonderful
@_ogoegbunam_
who wrote one of the best thesis I ever read, full of life, & ethnographic and conceptual insights.
It was a privilege to advise your work, & to do it with
@pjmeth1
, Victoria. Thank you!!
Thank you to my PhD supervisors (advisors),
@pjmeth1
and
@michelelancione
, who supported my commitments, who kept me grounded (Paula!) and also supported/encouraged/nudged my writing as experimentation (Michele!).
Very successful collective assembly yesterday at Polito with more than 100 people in presence and 60+ online.
Thanks to students for having me & many others. This is University at its best: interrogating itself and its subjects.
We continue our fight to push
#Frontex
out!
Today, after the sixth consecutive hour of on-line meetings, one of 'my' bright PhD candidates told me (rightly so!): 'Michele, you look shit'.
At least we can say I have successfully created a positive and encouraging dialogical relationship with my junior colleagues ;-)
Twitter! The
@Radical_Housing
Journal new issue is out!
“The renewed ‘crisis’: Housing struggle before and after the pandemic”, peer-reviewed & open source:
Follow
@Radical_Housing
& see below for highlights. This has taken much work, but it's real good.
I just had the immense privilege of interviewing
@raquelrolnik
for our forthcoming Issue 2.1
@Radical_Housing
Journal.
We spoke about her terrific book, housing struggles & the need for "a political and social organization to protect life and not profit"
Thank you, Raquel!
This Friday, with my comrade Veda Popovici, we will keynote
@UGRGRGS
Conference, on the "False symmetry of research-activism"
I am thrilled to join the amazing
@GautamBhan80
@LorettaCLees
@veronica_gago
& partners.
Friday 19th, from 10am UTC
Register
Please read our editorial announcement
@IJURResearch
, on slowing down and taking care of each other. Thanks to
@ananyaUCLA
for leading on this, and kudos also to
@SocietyandSpace
for the letter they put out yesterday to a similar effect
Academic normalcy cannot & should not be maintained at this time. Please read our editorial announcement regarding the slowing down of editorial functions & halting of the review process
@IJURResearch
:
Late last year
@SocietyandSpace
published a special issue I curated with
@XazaarAdjame
on 'Dwelling in Liminalities: Thinking Beyond Inhabitation'
Thanks to
@OswinNatalie
for steering it,
@Urban_Inst
to grant us the space for it & to our terrific authors
First meeting in
#Turin
of the new Antifascist University Alliance we put together
A renewed form of activism linking our anti-fascist praxis, to anti-militarism and the need to defend the ground of our universities to fight within and beyond them.
Join
"Dwelling in Liminalities: Uncanny conversations" is the new exciting seminar series that will take place
@Urban_Inst
@USPSheffield
in Spring 2020. Together with
@XazaarAdjame
, we will host 10 brilliant scholars across five meetings. Open to all! Info:
@Radical_Housing
Journal fifth issue is out!
Featuring 300+ pages of outstanding content, including 2 special issues, & southern conversations on housing/COVID in Lagos, Jakarta, Argentina, Manila, Lebanon & Brazil
Peer-reviewed, open-source: grab it!
Happy to announce a new successful funding application
@mur_gov_
#FARE
The project - Housing precarity in Eastern Europe: histories, geographies and urban political economies - expands current
@ERC_Research
work & will strengthen
@InhabitationLab
Info
With a few colleagues we have been fighting the deal with Frontex since July when it was announced, and we will continue now.
This public statement is a message for students and partners: some of us are not silent, some of us are vigil, some of us will not stay put.
Peace.
Massive joy for my other half who has just won a BIG scriptwriting competition judged by top producers, directors and film-makers across the Atlantic. In the horrible year we had, this is a massive achievement.
Push, Leo!! I can't wait to retire... :-)
We are launching the first call for papers of the Radical Housing Journal - a new, horizontally managed, feminist and anti-racist publication around the fight for the right to housing worldwide. Contributions are paid and peer reviewed. Check & spam at
Much great content is produced & lost.
I want to bring again attention to the six southern conversations on COVID/Housing we recently published
@Radical_Housing
Argentina, Manila, Jakarta, Lebanon, Lagos, Brazil from the ground. With struggle & love.
The emotional labour of remote caring with family & friends in Italy, Romania & in the UK is becoming exhausting. After weeks, I am tired & worried: for the imminent danger & the austerity in the making. This is why I think is key to also engage intellectually with
#COVID
ー19 1/3
Check out this new call for contributions on the criminalisation of houselessness for
@Radical_Housing
in collaboration with
@ChallengeIneq
Feel free to send me an email if you want to share ideas and proposals.
ATTN
#UnequalCities
Network>>Call for Proposals
We're excited to be working w/
@Radical_Housing
+ Core Partner/RJH editor
@michelelancione
on a special issue on the renewed criminalization of houselessness across the Atlantic.
Proposal deadline Oct. 10>>
Tomorrow I will be delivering one of the keynotes at the "Planning for Social Justice" event at
#DASTU
in Milan, at 9:30am CET
I am excited to share the floor with my
@CITYanalysis
comrade, the wonderful Oren Yftachel
The event is also online, info:
Back
@Urban_Inst
@USPSheffield
I designed and run for 3y an ECR Post-Doc scheme to provide meaningful engagement to scholars who are too often isolated and not cared for.
Now that amazing group came out with this powerful international paper
@CITYanalysis
Just landed back in post-brexit Britain after months. The officer asks, What's your reason for visiting the UK today?
Behind him a panel shows Wensleydale with cranberries on the Union Jack. It reads, CHEESEisGREAT.
Me still thinking about that reason.
Check our
@Radical_Housing
Journal CFP 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"
Submit by 31st Jan
I am happy to join the 3rd
@USForg
seminar on Infrastructure, Inequality and the Neo-Apartheid City.
Online on 09 December 10.00am to 4.00pm (GMT). I will be presenting on "Infrastructural violence and the impossible possibility of ‘home’
Program & reg:
When you are living with, and assisting with your partner, an unwell & disabled elderly person in an open-space flat (rented to increase his mobility) recording a lecture becomes an exercise in alignment -- of space & smell, of care & sound -- of bodies & the matrix in-between.
Today in Sheffield at
@Urban_Inst
with
@InhabitationLab
we are running a two-day workshop on The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation
With scholars from all over UK and EU working on themes of habitation and epistemic justice.
I look forward to the conversation & papers.