Professor Michele Lancione

Michele Lancione 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 focuses on home and homelessness, radical forms of inhabitation and the politics of life at the margins in the contemporary urban. In recent years he focused on Bucharest, Romania, where he conducted a multi-sited ethnographic on racialised dispossession, which resulted also in a feature documentary around Roma-led housing struggle entitled It started raining (www.ainceputploaia.com).

Michele has published interdisciplinary in journals such as EPD: Society and Space, IJURR, Urban Studies, Antipode and Cultural Anthropology. Recent volumes include ‘Global Urbanism’ (Routledge, with Colin McFarlane), ‘Urban Grammars’ (Duke University Press, with Ash Amin), and the monograph For a Liberatory Politics of Home, forthcoming with Duke University Press.

In Turin he is working on a 5-year European Research Council starting grant project entitled Inhabiting Radical Housing, and he has also founded the 'Beyond Inhabitation Lab', co-directed with AbdouMaliq Simone (www.beyondinhabitation.org).