Michele (he/they) is Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is co-founder and editor of the Radical Housing Journal and corresponding editor at IJURR.

His qualitative work offers a critical approach to home and homelessness, focusing on a relational reading of housing and habitation and on processes of dispossession in the contemporary urban. In recent years he mainly worked on Bucharest, Romania, where he conducted a multi-sited ethnography on racialised dispossession, which also resulted in a feature documentary around Roma-led housing struggle entitled It started raining.

In Turin, Michele is working on a 5-year European Research Council starting grant project entitled Inhabiting Radical Housing, as well as on a 4-year Italian Ministry of Universities project on Precarious Housing in Eastern Europe. He is also co-directing the ‘Beyond Inhabitation’ research lab, with AbdouMaliq Simone.

You can get in touch @michelelancione and check Michele’s full publications profile on his ORCID page.