Assistant Professor with time contract
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
Profile
Biography
I am Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor in Political-Economic Geography at this Polytechnic, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, UK. I am part of the ERC-funded Inhabiting Radical Housing project team and in the Core Team of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab (https://beyondinhabitation.org/). After a PhD in Geography at Queen Mary University of London, I held research and teaching positions at the London School of Economics, Durham University and Northumbria University, UK, and at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, on a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. I am also co-founder and editor of the Radical Housing Journal. My research focuses on housing precarity, temporary and platform urbanism, and struggles for housing alternatives. It deploys qualitative methods to investigate the precarization of urban space and living, collective resistance and self-organization. My research in the UK and Spain is interdisciplinary and often collaborative, incorporating approaches and methods from urban and cultural geography, spatial planning, visual culture, and housing studies. In addition to articles and chapters in various international journals, I am the author of the monograph The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).
Scientific branch
(Area 0011 - Historical, philosophical, pedagogical and psychological sciences)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- Queen Mary PhD Studentship conferred by Queen Mary University of London, United kingdom (2009)
- Urban Geography Research Group Event Fund conferred by Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers, United kingdom (2012)
- Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Award conferred by Antipode Foundation, United kingdom (2012)
- Marie Curie Fellowship conferred by European Union H2020, Francia (2016)
- Antipode International Workshop Award conferred by Antipode Foundation, United kingdom (2019)
Fellowships
- Fellow - Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, Regno Unito (2022-)
Fellow - Fellow - London School of Economics, Department of Geography and the Environment, Regno Unito (2022-)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow - Fellow - Higher Education Academy, UK Professional Standards Framework, Advance HE, Regno Unito (2021-)
Fellow
Editorial boards
- RADICAL HOUSING JOURNAL (2019-), Director
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Ricercatore a t.d. - t.pieno (art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10), presso Northumbria University (1/10/2019-31/8/2022)
- Ricercatore a t.d. - t.pieno (art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10), presso Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1/10/2016-30/9/2019)
- Ricercatore a t.d. - t.defin. (art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10), presso London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (27/6/2016-31/7/2016)
- Professore a contratto, presso Durham University (11/5/2015-10/5/2016)
- Professore Incaricato Esterno, presso London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2/10/2014-20/3/2015)
Research networks
- European Network for Housing Research (2020-). Partecipazione
Teaching
Courses of Study Boards
- Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente invitato
Teachings
Master of Science
- Global urban geographies. A.A. 2022/23, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Global urban geographies. A.A. 2023/24, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Other activities and projects related to research
My research focuses on housing precarity, temporary and platform urbanism, and struggles for housing alternatives. It deploys qualitative methods to investigate the precarization of urban space and living, collective resistance and self-organization. My research in the UK and Spain is interdisciplinary and often collaborative, incorporating approaches and methods from urban and cultural geography, spatial planning, visual culture, and housing studies. In addition to articles and chapters in various international journals, I am the author of the monograph The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).
Publications
Publications by type
Last years publications
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- Vilenica, Ana; Can, Aysegul; Anderson, Derick; Mcelroy, Erin; Keller, Judith; Ferreri, ... (2023)
Life-Affirmative Struggles for Home Across Borders. In: RADICAL HOUSING JOURNAL, vol. 5, pp. 1-10. ISSN 2632-2870
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, Mara (2023)
Radical difference in 'transitional commoning': hidden histories of London's squats to co-ops. In: CITY, pp. 1-17. ISSN 1470-3629
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, Mara (2023)
Ethics. In: Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography / Lees L., Demeritt D., Cheltenham, Elgar, pp. 140-144. ISBN: 9781800883499
Contributo in Volume - Fernandez Arrigoitia, M.; Ferreri, M.; Hudson, J.; Scanlon, K.; West, K. (2023)
Toward a feminist housing commons? Conceptualising care - (as) - work in collaborative housing. In: HOUSING THEORY AND SOCIETY, pp. 1-19. ISSN 1403-6096
Contributo su Rivista - Orlek, Jonathan; Mcandrew, Claire; Cerulli, Cristina; Ferreri, Mara; Marianna, Cavada; ... (2023)
For a relational understanding of care in critical urban action. In: LO SQUADERNO, vol. 65, pp. 43-47. ISSN 1973-9141
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, M.; Vidal, L. (2022)
Public-cooperative policy mechanisms for housing commons. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOUSING POLICY, vol. 22, pp. 149-173. ISSN 1949-1247
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, M.; Sanyal, R. (2022)
Digital informalisation: rental housing, platforms, and the management of risk. In: HOUSING STUDIES, vol. 37, pp. 1035-1053. ISSN 1466-1810
Contributo su Rivista - Bianchi, Iolanda; Pera, Marina; Calvet-Mir, Laura; Villamayor, Sergio; Ferreri, Mara; ... (2022)
Urban commons and the local state: co-production between enhancement and co-optation. In: TERRITORY, POLITICS, GOVERNANCE. ISSN 2162-2671
Contributo su Rivista - Hudson, J.; Scanlon, K.; Udagawa, C.; Arrigoitia, M. F.; Ferreri, M.; West, K. (2021)
‘A Slow Build-Up of a History of Kindness’: Exploring the Potential of Community-Led Housing in Alleviating Loneliness. In: SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 13. ISSN 2071-1050
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, Mara (2021)
The permanence of temporary urbanism: normalising precarity in austerity London. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, P. 194. ISBN: 9789048535828
Libro - Martí-Costa, Marc; Ferreri, Mara (2021)
Una política de vivienda municipal innovadora: el programa de apoyo a las cooperativas de cesión de uso en Barcelona. In: Los nuevos retos de las políticas urbanas: Innovación, gobernanza, servicios municipales y políticas sectoriales / Navarro Yañez C. J., Valencia, Tirant Humanidades, pp. 87-102. ISBN: 9788418155666
Contributo in Volume - Ferreri, Mara (2021)
Politicising vacancy and commoning housing in municipalist Barcelona. In: The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy, Urban Politics and International Experiments in the Post-Crisis City / O'Callaghan C., Di Feliciantonio C., Bristol, Bristol University Press - Policy Press, pp. 181-196. ISBN: 9781447356905
Contributo in Volume - Hudson, Jim; Fernandez Arrigoitia, Melissa; Ferreri, Mara; Izuhara, Misa; Scanlon, Kath; ... (2021)
What collaborative housing offers in a pandemic:: Evidence from 18 communities in England and Wales. pp. 1-4
Altro - Harris, Ella; Ferreri, Mara (2021)
The Mediapolis Q&A: Mara Ferreri's The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism and Ella Harris's Rebranding Precarity. In: MEDIAPOLIS, vol. 6
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, Mara (2020)
Contesting displacement through radical emplacement and occupations in austerity Europe. In: The Handbook of Displacement / Adley, P., Bowstead, J., Brickell, K., Desai, V., Dolton, M., Pinkerton, A, Siddiqi, A., London, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 739-752. ISBN: 9783030471781
Contributo in Volume - Ferreri, M. (2020)
Painted Bullet Holes and Broken Promises: Understanding and Challenging Municipal Dispossession in London's Public Housing ‘Decanting’. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, vol. 44, pp. 1007-1022. ISSN 0309-1317
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, M. (2020)
Learning from temporary use and the making of on-demand communities in London’s Olympic “fringes”. In: URBAN GEOGRAPHY, vol. 41, pp. 409-427. ISSN 0272-3638
Contributo su Rivista