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. 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.
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