Fixed-term assistant professor
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
Profile
Research interests
Biography
Magda Bolzoni is Assistant Professor (RtdA) of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy). She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Turin and she has spent periods of study and research at the Western Cape University (South Africa), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Ryukoku University (Japan), where in 2017 she was a JSPS Fellow with a project on migration, social inclusion and urban change. Her researches focus on issues of urban change and gentrification, migrations, socio-spatial stratification and inequalities and she specializes in qualitative, ethnographic and mix-method methodologies.
Scientific branch
(Area 0014 - Political and social sciences)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Teaching
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente
Teachings
Master of Science
- Methodologies for Social Inclusion and Participation. A.A. 2025/26, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
- Methodologies for Social Inclusion and Participation. A.A. 2024/25, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
- Methodologies for Social Inclusion and Participation. A.A. 2023/24, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
- Architecture, society and territory A (modulo di Urban sociology). A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Titolare del corso
- Methodologies for Social Inclusion and Participation. A.A. 2022/23, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
- Architecture, society and territory A (modulo di Urban sociology). A.A. 2022/23, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Collaboratore del corso
- Methodologies for Social Inclusion and Participation. A.A. 2021/22, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
- Methodologies for Social Inclusion and Participation. A.A. 2020/21, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
- Atelier Progetto urbanistico C (modulo di Sociologia dell'ambiente). A.A. 2020/21, ARCHITETTURA PER IL PROGETTO SOSTENIBILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Methodologies for Social Inclusion and Participation. A.A. 2019/20, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
Research
Supervised PhD students
- Cristina Pezzotti. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Rosamaria Randazzo. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
Publications
Last years publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Bolzoni, Magda; Dagnes, Joselle; Storti, Luca (2025)
Economic Elites and Global Shocks: A Conceptual Mapping. In: AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST. ISSN 0002-7642
Contributo su Rivista - Bolzoni, Magda; Semi, Giovanni (2025)
Between a soft and a hard place: Southern European gentrification for short-term populations. In: EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES. ISSN 0969-7764
Contributo su Rivista - Bolzoni, Magda (2024)
International migrations in extra-urban areas: exploring challenges and opportunities in Italy and Japan. In: Social Innovation in Food and Agriculture for Achieving a Sustainable Society / Naoko Oishi, S.L., Fujiwara-Shoten, pp. 131-151. ISBN: 9784865784114
Contributo in Volume - Bolzoni, Magda (2024)
2023-2024: quale pace per chi fugge?. In: Il diritto d'asilo. Report 2024. Popoli in cammino... senza diritto d'asilo / S.N., S.L., Editrice Tau, pp. 21-47. ISBN: 979-12-5975-449-3
Contributo in Volume - Bolzoni, Magda; Donatiello, Davide; Giannetto, Leila (2024)
Sfide e tradimenti. Accoglienze e territori nelle trasformazioni del diritto di asilo. In: SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE, vol. 46, pp. 86-103. ISSN 0392-4939
Contributo su Rivista - Bolzoni, Magda; Semi, Giovanni (2023)
Adaptive urbanism in ordinary cities: Gentrification and temporalities in Turin (1993–2021). In: CITIES, vol. 134. ISSN 0264-2751
Contributo su Rivista - Bolzoni, Magda; Crivello, Silvia (2023)
Local Policies of Diversity in (Post-)Industrial Cities: A Research Agenda Between Italy and Japan. In: The Migration Conference, pp. 64-68. ISBN: 978-1-80135-248-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Bolzoni, Magda (2023)
2022-2023: Solo passi indietro?. In: Il Diritto d’Asilo. Report 2023. Liberi di scegliere se migrare o restare? / Molfetta M., Marchetti C., S.L., Tau Editrice srl, pp. 23-44. ISBN: 9791259753281
Contributo in Volume - Bolzoni, Magda (2023)
Material Changes, Symbolic Transformations: Commercial Gentrification and Urban Change in Turin, Italy. In: Diversity of Urban Inclusivity. Perspectives Beyond Gentrification in Advanced City-Regions / Mizuuchi T., Kornatowski G., Fukumoto T., Singapore, Springer, pp. 65-81. ISBN: 978-981-19-8527-0
Contributo in Volume - Bolzoni, Magda; Donatiello, Davide; Giannetto, Leila (2023)
The dark side of solidarity: ambivalences and double standards in the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Italy. In: PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO, vol. 16, pp. 451-469. ISSN 2035-6609
Contributo su Rivista