Fixed-term assistant professor
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
Profile
Biography
I am Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor in 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)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council - Creativeworks London conferred by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), through the programme 'Creativeworks London' Knowledge Exchange HUB., United kingdom (2014)
- Marie Curie Fellowship conferred by European Union H2020, Francia (2016)
- Antipode International Workshop Award conferred by Antipode Foundation, United kingdom (2019)
- British Academy Virtual Sandpit Follow-on Funding 'What makes a good city?' conferred by British Academy, United kingdom (2021)
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium conferred by Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the British Academy, United kingdom (2022)
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
- Visiting Researcher, presso London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- 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)
- 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
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente invitato
Teachings
Master of Science
- Global urban geographies. A.A. 2024/25, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Global urban geographies. A.A. 2023/24, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Global urban geographies. A.A. 2022/23, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Supervised PhD students
- Tommaso Cosentino. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
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
Last years publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Ferreri, Mara (2024)
Housing struggles: dwelling in crisis economies. In: Contemporary Economic Geographies: Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspectives / Johns J., Hall S.M., Bristol, Bristol University Press, pp. 275-288. ISBN: 9781529220568
Contributo in Volume - Ferreri, Mara (2024)
Housing movements, commons and ‘precarious institutionalization’. In: HOUSING THEORY AND SOCIETY. ISSN 1403-6096
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, Mara; Sanyal, Romola (2024)
Conversions: The emerging informalisation of housing in the Global North. In: PLANNING THEORY. ISSN 1473-0952
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, Mara; García-lamarca, Melissa (2023)
Radical Methodological Openness and Method as Politics: Reflections on Militant Research with Squatters in Catalonia. In: ANTIPODE, vol. 56, pp. 469-491. ISSN 0066-4812
Contributo su Rivista - Ferreri, Mara (2023)
L’opacità negli effetti delle economie di piattaforma sulle città contemporanee. In: La città invisibile. Quello che non vediamo sta cambiando le metropoli / Balducci A., Milano, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, pp. 91-114. ISBN: 9788807990939
Contributo in Volume - 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