Michele Lancione

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Full Professor (L. 240)
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)

Profile

Research interests

Assemblage, vitalist and processual thinking
Critical urban studies
Feminism, embodiments, politics of the body
Geografie dell'abitare radicale
Global urbanism
Homelessness, housing struggles and grassroot organising
Inhabitation and politics of everyday life
Lotta per la casa
Micropolitics and the minor
Race, racialisation, structural violence
Senza dimora
Undercommons and academic privilege
Visual and narrative methods

Biography

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 and 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

Curriculum

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Scientific branch

GEOG-01/B - Economic and Political Geography
(Area 0011 - Historical, philosophical, pedagogical and psychological sciences)

Skills

ERC sectors

SH2_2 - Democratisation and social movements
SH2_11 - Human, economic and social geography
SH3_2 - Inequalities, discrimination, prejudice, aggression and violence, antisocial behaviour
SH5_9 - Social anthropology, religious studies, symbolic representation
SH3_7 - Social policies, welfare
SH3_1 - Social structure, social mobility
SH2_9 - Urban, regional and rural studies

SDG

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Awards and Honors

  • Premio Segre per Tesi di Laurea in Geografia conferred by Università di Torino (2008)
  • Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Fellowship conferred by University of Technology of Sydney (2011)
  • Urban Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship conferred by Urban Studies Foundation (2013)
  • Foreign Researchers Scholarship Award conferred by Romanian Cultural Institute (2015)
  • Antipode Activist-Scholar Award (with FCDL) conferred by Antipode Foundation (2018)
  • ERC Starting Grant 2019 conferred by European Research Council (2019)
  • Antipode International Workshop Award (with RHJ) conferred by Antipode Foundation (2019)
  • Starting Grant Polito - Compagnia di San Paolo conferred by Politecnico di Torino e Compagnia di San Paolo (2021)
  • FARE - Precarious Housing in Eastern Europe: Histories, Geographies and Urban Political Economies conferred by Ministero Universita' e Ricerca (2022)
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Fellowships

  • Fellow - Urban Institute, Regno Unito (2021-)
    Visiting Professor in Urban Studies
  • Fellow - University of Technology of Sydney, Australia (2013-)
    Honorary associate of the University of Technology of Sydney

Editorial boards

  • ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE (2025-), Editorial board member
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOUSING POLICY (2022-), Editorial board member
  • CITY (2020-), Scientific Committee member
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH (2019-), Editor of magazine, editorial series, encyclopaedia
  • RADICAL HOUSING JOURNAL (2018-), Editorial board member
  • CITY (2011-2020), Editorial board member
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Management or scientific roles in Research Institutes

  • Politecnico di TORINO - Politecnico di TORINO (2022-), Co-director of the research group "Beyond Inhabitation Lab"
  • University of Sheffield - University of Sheffield (2017-2021), Member of the Senior Leadership team of the Urban Institute

Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Professore Ordinario, presso University of Sheffield (4/9/2017-31/3/2021)
  • Professore Associato confermato, presso Cardiff University (1/8/2016-31/8/2017)
  • Ricercatore, presso University of Cambridge (1/1/2013-31/7/2016)
  • Ricercatore, presso University of Technology Sydney (3/10/2011-31/12/2013)

Research networks

Roles as evaluator or expert

  • Starting Grant SNSF. 2022
    Swiss National Science Foundation
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. 2018
    ERC - EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - EXECUTIVE AGENCY
  • British Academy Small Grants. 2017
    BRITISH COUNCIL
  • Fulbright Exchange Program. 2019
    United States Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • ESRC Major Research Grants. 2017
    BRITISH COUNCIL
  • National Science Foundation Grants. 2019
    United States Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • ERC Starting Grant. 2022
    ERC - EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - EXECUTIVE AGENCY
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Non-commercial collaboration agreements

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO

Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Other activities and projects related to teaching

I am the Director of the Master's Degree in Geography and Territorial Sciences, University and Polytechnic of Turin (LM-80).

In addition to the courses listed above, I teach two modules (in English) in the Master's Degree Program in Geography and Territorial Sciences (LM-80). The first is entitled ‘Geography, theory and practice’, and the second ‘Racialized and Gendered Cities’.

In the past, I have taught as a tenured lecturer at the Universities of Durham, Sydney, Cambridge, Cardiff, and Sheffield, as well as a visiting lecturer in doctoral programs at various Italian and European universities.

Research

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Supervised PhD students

Other activities and projects related to research

Competitively funded projects (PI/CO-I)

(2022-2026) FARE La precarietà abitativa nell'Europa dell’Est: storie, geografie ed economie politiche urbane
(2020-2025) ERC Starting Grant "Inhabiting Radical Housing "(briefoverview)
(2019) Antipode International Workshop Awards, con il Radical Housing Journal (Co-I)
(2018) Antipode Scholar-Activist award, con FCDL (PI)
(2015) Foreign Researchers Scholarship Award, Romanian Cultural Institute (PI)
(2013-2016) Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellowship (PI)
(2011-2013) UTS Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PI)


Competitively funded projects (Mentor)

(2023-2026) Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship Global (Mentor) - Environmental gentrification and emerging collectives in uncertain times - PI: Dr Daniela Giudici
(2022-2025) Urban Studies Foundation Post-Doc Fellowship (Mentor) - Dwelling in the smart city: The politics and (re)structuring of power in/through smart housing in India - PI: Dr Jenifa Zahan
(2023-2024) Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship (Mentor) - Climate just housing: Towards more sustainable urban environments for all - PI: Dr Melissa García-Lamarca


Keynotes

- 2025, "The Impossible Possibility of Home", Keynote at the Withe Rose Doctoral Partnership conference, Sheffield, 17th June 2025

- 2025, “The colonies of home”, Keynote at the Swiss City Collaboratory Network, Geneva, 23th May 2025

- 2024, "For a Liberatory Politics of Home", Keynote at the UULP seminar at KU Leuven, Brussels,17th May 2024

- 2023, "The Impossible Possibility of Home", Keynote at the Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies. 3rd ed. ICS-ULisboa, 8-10 nov 2023

– 2022, Keynote address at the two-day research workshop on “Evictability: Understanding the nexus of migration and urban displacements”, at the Malmö University Institute for Urban Research, June 2022

– 2021, “The false symmetry of research-activism. Towards accomplicenship and undercommon praxis”, keynote with Veda Popovici at the RGS-IBG Urban Geography research group conference, November 2021
– 2021, “Race, class and the plan, in Bucharest, Romania”, keynote at the DASTU, Polytechnic of Milan, at their “Planning for Social Justice” event, October 2021
– 2021, “Inhabiting dispossession in the post-socialist city: storylines, embodied struggles, and emplacement”, keynote speech at the international workshops “Migrant and Minority Activism: Between protest movements and everyday engagement”, organised by ZOiS Berlinand the EASA Anthropology of Social Movements Network, Berlin, September 2021
– 2021, “Curare a parte. Bio-austerità e geografia politica interstiziale”, keynote speech at the event “Dagli spazi di percezione agli spazi della politica”, organised by PhD students in Geography at the University of Padova, June 2021

– 2019, “On Lessness: Recentering the politics of home”, invited keynote at the 7th EUGEO Congress, in conjunction with the 51st Conference of Irish Geographers, Dublin, May 2019

– 2019, “Radical Housing: On the politics of dwelling as difference”, invited keynote at the 2019 UK Housing Studies Association Conference, Sheffield, April 2019

– 2018, “Minor ethnographies and the activist mode of existence”, keynote speech at Politicising Public Health: A Workshop for Early Career Ethnographers, LSHTM, London, October 2018

– 2017, “Beyond homelessness study”, keynote speech At the European Observatory on Homelessness Conference in Barcelona, September 2017

– 2015, “The Adaptation of Housing First” keynote at the international conference X Stratagemma. La prevenzione nella scuola e nella comunità: rigenerare la qualità della vita, Padova, 25 June 2015

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