Michele Lancione
Professor of Economic and Political Geography, Polytechnic of Turin
Visiting Professor of Urban Studies, University of Sheffield
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. They are the founder and co-director of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab (with AbdouMaliq Simone) and Director of the Master’s Degree in Geography and Territorial Sciences at the University of Turin.
Michele’s qualitative work offers a critical approach to homing, housing and urban habitation at the intersection of gender, race, class and institutional violence. Currently, their research is centred on histories of housing justice and homeless service provision in Naples, Italy. Previously, they worked on an ERC-funded project titled “Inhabiting Radical Housing” (2020-2025) and on a multi-sited ethnography on racialised dispossession in Bucharest, Romania (2014-2019).
Michele is part of the editorial boards of IJURR and EPD: Society & Space, and has been one of the co-founders and editors of the Radical Housing Journal. Their latest book is “For a Liberatory Politics of Home”, Duke University Press (2023).
You can connect with Michele via email or on their blog at www.michelelancione.eu and check Michele’s full publications profile on their ORCID page.
Selected books
Lancione, M. 2023. For a Liberatory Politics of Home. Durham: Duke University Press
Amin, A. and Lancione, M., ed., 2022. Grammars of the Urban Ground. Durham: Duke University Press
Lancione, M. and McFarlane, C. ed., 2021. Global Urbanism. Knowledge, Power and the City. London: Routledge.
Selected papers
Lancione, M. (2023). 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. (2020). ‘Radical Housing: On the Politics of Dwelling as Difference’. International Journal of Housing Policy, 273-289, 20 (2): 1–17.
Lancione, M. (2019) Weird Exoskeletons: Propositional Politics and the Making of Home in Underground Bucharest. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 43(1), 535-550