Publications

In this page, we have collated the publications emerging from the ERC Inhabiting Radical Housing Project (2020-2025, PI: Lancione). The project was the major source of funding for the Lab’s first five years of activity. On this page, you can read an account of the main project’s aim and results.

All the works reported below can be obtained by writing to each of the authors, or by accessing the Polytechnic of Turin public repository: https://iris.polito.it/

Monographs

Lancione, M. and Simone, A. (Contracted, Forthcoming) Beyond Inhabitation. Housing and Ordinary Desire at the Edge. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Lancione, M. (2023) For a Liberatory Politics of Home. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (read the blur here)

Edited books

Lancione, M. (ed.) (Contracted, Forthcoming) Housing Justice. Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Papers

Cacciotti, C. (under review). Learning through unhoming. Extended squatting time and agentic homemaking after squatting in Rome. City & Society.

Cacciotti, C. (2024) ‘Inhabiting Liminality: The Temporal, Spatial and Experiential Assemblage of Emancipatory Practices in the Lives of Housing Squatters in Rome, Italy’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 48(1).

Cacciotti, C. (2023) ‘Abitare liminale permanente. Pratiche di lotta e negoziazione quotidiana degli spazi in un’occupazione abitativa romana’, Antropologia Pubblica, 9(2).

Cacciotti, C. (2023) ‘Racializing the concept of ‘housing otherness’: The effects of temporary housing policies on squatters in Rome’, Radical Housing Journal, 5(1).

Castriota, R. (2024) ‘Housing Beyond the Metropolis: Inhabiting Extractivism and Extensions in Urban Amazonia’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(1): 32–53.

Ferreri, M. (Under review) ‘Housing decommodification as remaking the territory-property nexus’, EPD: Society & Space.

Lancione, M. (In submission) ‘Unfulfilled relations and public housing in San Giovanni, Naples’, EPD: Society & Space.

Lancione, M. and Simone, A. (2025) ‘Dispossessed exposures. Housing and regimes of the visible’, EPD: Society & Space, 41(1): 70–89.

Lancione, M. (2023) ‘Radical Housing Justice Within and Beyond Caring’, Antipode, 56(3): 841–846.

Lancione, M. (2022) ‘Inhabiting Dispossession in the Post-Socialist City: Race, Class, and the Plan, in Bucharest, Romania’, Antipode, 54(4): 1141–1165.

Morpurgo, D. (2025) ‘The impossibility of home: Conceptualizing home a-making through the lens of sex work in Italy’, EPD: Society and Space. DOI: 10.1177/02637758251405709

Morpurgo, D. (forthcoming) ‘Reading housing as an urban infrastructure patterning the ‘whore stigma’’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Morpurgo, D. (2024) ‘Il lavoro sessuale è di casa, spunti di ricerca tra geografie dell’abitare e prostituzione’, Rivista Geografica Italiana, 3(3): 5–30.

Vilenica, A. (2025) ‘Cross‐Movement Radical Housing Alliances in Argentina: For a Feminist Grammar of Tenant Organising’, Antipode, ahead of print.

Vilenica, A. (2025) ‘From Anti-Socialist Urbanism to Fostering Paths for Insurgent Global Urban Futures: Thinking from the (Post-)Yugoslav Perspective’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, June 8, 1–9.

Chapters in books

Cacciotti, C. (forthcoming) ‘Evicting people, redistributing agency. The aftermath of the ‘housing political’ learned inside Roman organized squats’, in Lancione, M. (ed.) Housing Justice: Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Cacciotti, C. (forthcoming). The afterlife of sgomberi in Rome. Political and affective frameworks of evictability in the lives of former and current squatters. In Clough Marinaro, I. & Haynes, W. (eds). Living Rome. London: Lever Press.

Cacciotti, C. (under revision). Unhoming and Becoming. Squatting’s Afterlives and the Making of Agency in Rome. In Alves de Matos, P. & Pusceddu, A.M. (eds). How do we become agents: towards an anthropology of distributed agency. London: Pluto Press.

Cacciotti, C., and Grazioli, M. (under revision). All Roads Lead to Rome: Navigating Activist and Academic Pathways through ‘Live-Along Methodologies’ in Self-Organized Spaces. In Clough Marinaro, I. & Wilcox, V. (eds). Routledge Handbook of Rome Since 1870. London: Routledge.

Castriota, (forthcoming) ‘Putting Home to Work in Belo Horizonte: Towards the Study of Housing and Popular Economies’, in Lancione, M. (ed.) Housing Justice: Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Ferreri, M. (forthcoming) ‘Commoning housing futures: transforming intergenerational property transmission as a site for housing justice’, in Lancione, M. (ed.) Housing Justice: Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Ferreri, M. (forthcoming) ‘Cens vitalici com a eina per desmercantilitzar les propietats individuals cap a una cooperativa dispersa (En. Life annuity as a tool for decommodifying individual property towards diffused cooperatives)’, in Sòl i habitatge: camins cap a la desmercantilització i cooperativització. Barcelona: Fundació La Dinamo.

Ferreri, M. (forthcoming) ‘Collective and self-managed property from anti-racist struggles: historical and contemporary insights in Europe’, in Emanuelli, S. and Rendón, G. (eds) De Gruyter Handbook of Housing Justice. Berlin: Germany.

Ferreri, M. and Vidal, L. (forthcoming) ‘Evolving policy communities for public-cooperative housing commons in new municipalist Barcelona’, in Russell, B. and Bianchi, I. (eds) Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Lancione, M. (forthcoming), ‘Habitation’, in Hamlin, M. and Delclós, C. (ed.) Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity, London: Pluto.

Lancione, M. (forthcoming), ‘The colonies of home’, in Stratford, E. and Walsh, K. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Home, London: Routledge.

Morpurgo, D. (forthcoming) ‘Housing stigma: Looking at inhabitation through the prism of sex work in Italy’, in Lancione, M. (ed.) Housing Justice: Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Rusenko, R. (forthcoming) ‘The coloniality of state responses to homelessness: Racialized systems of enclosure and confinement in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1880s to present’, in Lancione, M. (ed.) Housing Justice: Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Vilenica, A. (forthcoming) ‘An autonomous tenant power internationalism for our time: Learning from the Los Angeles Tenants Union and Autonomous Tenant Union Network’, in Lancione, M. (ed.) Housing Justice: Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Waldman, D. (forthcoming) ‘Inhabiting extensions and housing as extensions: housing and city building and Noida, India’, in Lancione, M. (ed.) Housing Justice: Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Non peer-reviewed publications (partial list)

06000 Plataforma Vecinal y Observatorio del Centro Histórico and Vilenica, A. (2024) ‘Not One Neighbour Less: Temporalities of Tenants Organising in Mexico City’, Radical Housing Journal, 6(1): 153–60.

Alcocer, K., Vilchis, L. and Vilenica, A. (2023) ‘From the Politics of What’s Possible to the Politics of What We Want’, Radical Housing Journal, 5(1): 197–209.

Calvo, S. and Vilenica, A. (2024) ‘Dialogical Devices and Political Possibilities of Art: Occupy, Inhabit, Resist’, Radical Housing Journal, 6(1): 161–75.

Escudero, M. and Vilenica, A. (2023) ‘A Fighting Time and a Dreaming Time: Struggle for Right to Remain in LA’, Radical Housing Journal, 5(1): 185–96.

Flower Drive Tenants Association, Vilenica, A. and Albright, K. (2023) ‘Here to Stay: Building a Tenant Association Against Displacement’, Radical Housing Journal, 5(1): 211–22.

Galindo, R., Vilenica, A. and Montes De Oca Quiroz, P. (2023) ‘From Quiet Life to Political Activism: Memories of Tenants Rebellions in Mexico’, Radical Housing Journal, 5(1): 243–50.

Gaytan Santiago, P., Vilenica, A. and Montes De Oca Quiroz, P. (2023) ‘Against Whitening by Dispossession: A History and the Present of Tenants Rebellion in Mexico’, Radical Housing Journal, 5(1): 231–42.

Gray-Garcia, L. T. and Lancione, M. (2025) ‘A conversation around Lisa Tiny’s “WeSearch, Reparations and RiSearch”’, in Roy, A., Graziani, T. and Powers, A. (eds) Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property. Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, Los Angeles.

Henry, I. and Vilenica, A. (2024) ‘Organising Enclaves under Black and Brown Leadership in New York City: Imani Henry of Equality for Flatbush (E4F) in Conversation with Ana Vilenica’, Radical Housing Journal, 6(1): 177–84.

Lancione, M. and Simone, A. (2025) ‘Tacit Alliances, Not Knowing Togetherness’, Lo Squaderno, 70.

Lancione, M. (2021) ‘Il Corpo e l’uso Politico Della Metafora Geografica’, Rivista Geografica Italiana, 4: 172–79.

Muñoz, G. (Inquilinos Agrupados), Vilenica, A. and Quiroz, M. (2024) ‘Dismantling Rentier Logic: Tenants Struggles in Argentina’, Radical Housing Journal, 6(1): 125–37.

Ortiz, E., Emanuelli, M. S. and Vilenica, A. (2024) ‘Tracing a Long History of the Habitat International Coalition and the Social Production of Habitat’, Radical Housing Journal, 6(1): 139–51.

Representatives of the Otomí community in Mexico City, Vilenica, A. and Guerra Arjona, F. (2023) ‘“This House Belongs to Everyone”: Otomí Community Occupation of the National Indigenous Peoples’ Institute (INPI) in Mexico City as a Struggle for Dignified Housing and the Right to the City’, Radical Housing Journal, 5(1): 251–63.

Roman, T., Quintanilla, B. and Vilenica, A. (2023) ‘Food Distribution as Solidarity and as a Tool for Building Tenant Power in Los Angeles’, Radical Housing Journal, 5(1): 265–70.

Further published works (whose writing was supported by the ERC – Partial list)

Alexandrescu, F., Powell, R. and Vilenica, A. (eds) (2025) Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Lessons from Eastern Europe. Routledge.

Amin, A. and Lancione, M. (eds) (2022) Grammars of the Urban Ground. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Cacciotti, C. (2024) Qui è tutto abitato. L’occupazione romana di Santa Croce/Spin Time Labs come esperienza abitativa liminale. Verona: Ombre Corte.

Castriota, R. (2024) ‘“Here, vale is the State”: neoextractivism and authoritarianism in the city, the countryside and the forest in the region of Carajás’, RBEUR (Brazilian Review of Urban and Regional Studies), 26(1): 1–30.

Castriota, R. (2023) ‘Preserve to extract, scam and dispossess: operational environmentalism and units of conservation in Carajás’ [In Portuguese], Revista Geografias, 18(2): 21–43.

Ferreri, M. (2025) ‘Non-linear feminist politics of/for social and spatial justice research’, Area.

Ferreri, M. (2024) ‘Housing Movements, Commons and ‘Precarious Institutionalization’’, Housing, Theory and Society.

Ferreri, M., Garcia-Lamarca, M. and Obra Social Barcelona (2023) ‘Radical methodological openness and methods as politics: reflections on militant research on squatting in Catalonia’, Antipode, 56(2): 469–491.

Ferreri, M. (2023) ‘Radical difference in ‘transitional commoning’: hidden histories of London’s squats to co-ops’, City, 27(3-4): 360-376.

Fernández Arrigoitia, M., Ferreri, M., Hudson, J., Scanlon, K. and West, K. (2023) ‘Toward a feminist housing commons? Conceptualising care – (as) – work in collaborative housing’, Housing Theory and Society, 40(5): 660-678.

Ferreri, M. (2024) ‘Housing struggles: dwelling in crisis economies’, in Hall, S. M. and Johns, J. (eds) Contemporary Economic Geographies. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 275-288.

Ferreri, M. (2023) ‘Ethics’, in Lees, L. and Demeritt, D. (eds) Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 140-144.

Lancione, M. (2025) ‘Post-socialist racial geographies studies’, in Alexandrescu, F., Powell, R. and Vilenica, A. (eds) Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Lessons from Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.

Morpurgo, D. (2023) ‘Problematising use conformity in spatial regulation: Religious diversity and mosques out of place in Northeast Italy’, Planning Theory, 22(2).

Popovici, V. (2023) ‘disavowal/ an accountable practice for delinking’, in Vilenica, A. (ed.) Decoloniality in Eastern Europe. A lexicon of reorientation. Novi Sad: New Media Center, Kuda.org.

Popovici, V. (2023) ‘The Ethics of Solidarity and Representing Evictions. A guide for the ethical representation of evictions’, in Ugron, N. (ed.) Handbook of Resistance Tactics Against Evictions. Collection of Tactics from Housing Justice and Anti-racist Movements in Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Germany, Portugal and Spain. Cluj Napoca: Desire Press.

Pražić, I. and Vilenica, A. (2023) ‘Gadji Feminism(s) in Serbia: Racial Privilege and ‘Intersectional’ Solidarity in an Eastern European Semiperiphery’, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 44(2): 70–97.

Rusenko, R. (2024) ‘The Vagrancy Concept, Border Control, and Legal Architectures of Human In/Security’, Antipode, 56(2): 628–650.

Simone, A., Somda, D., Torino, G., Irawati, M., R., N., Bathla, N., Castriota, R., Vegliò, S. and Chandra, T. (2023) ‘Inhabiting the Extensions’, Dialogues in Human Geography.

Vilenica, A. and Vladimir, M. (2025) ‘Urbanisation of Racial Capitalism in Serbia: Transition, Racialisation, Evictions’, in Alexandrescu, F., Powell, R. and Vilenica, A. (eds) Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Lessons from Eastern Europe. Routledge.

Waldman, D. and Ghertner, D. A. (2023) ‘The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating’, Progress in Human Geography, 47(2): 280-297.

Waldman, D., Dao, M., Ceron-Anaya, H. and Giardina, M. D. (2023) ‘Ethnographic vulnerabilities: Power, politics, and possibility’, in Clift, B., Batile, I., Bekker, S. and Chudzikowski, K. (eds) Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability: Negotiating, experiencing, embracing. Routledge.