michelelancione
@michelelancione.bsky.social
Prof of Geography (he/they) | Co-Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch & EPD | Direct MSc Geography at UNITO | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
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Our collective study on the relationship between Frontex and the university is out now OA in @antipodeonline.bsky.social
This work is part of a longer struggle. We hope it will be useful to those fighting the academic-military-industrial complex.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This work is part of a longer struggle. We hope it will be useful to those fighting the academic-military-industrial complex.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Los Angeles Poverty Department is facing serious financial troubles due to federal funding cuts.
As I witness myself many times, this is fundamental community infrastructure in Skid Row.
Please join me in helping them and their mission: www.lapovertydept.org/donate/
As I witness myself many times, this is fundamental community infrastructure in Skid Row.
Please join me in helping them and their mission: www.lapovertydept.org/donate/
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The Los Angeles Poverty Department is facing serious financial troubles due to federal funding cuts.
As I witness myself many times, this is fundamental community infrastructure in Skid Row.
Please join me in helping them and their mission: www.lapovertydept.org/donate/
As I witness myself many times, this is fundamental community infrastructure in Skid Row.
Please join me in helping them and their mission: www.lapovertydept.org/donate/
We express our deep concern about the situation of #Mohamed #Shahin, imam of the Omar Ibn al-Khattab mosque in Turin, currently detained following an expulsion order by the Ministry of the Interior.
His offence? Speaking for Palestine. Sign our petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
His offence? Speaking for Palestine. Sign our petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We express our deep concern about the situation of #Mohamed #Shahin, imam of the Omar Ibn al-Khattab mosque in Turin, currently detained following an expulsion order by the Ministry of the Interior.
His offence? Speaking for Palestine. Sign our petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
His offence? Speaking for Palestine. Sign our petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Today we are striking. Against the Italian government's war budget. For Palestine. For a non-militarised society. We are doing this today so that we can continue to do it, and continue to fight for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Today we are striking. Against the Italian government's war budget. For Palestine. For a non-militarised society. We are doing this today so that we can continue to do it, and continue to fight for it.
In preparation for the national strike on the 28th of November against the militarization of Italian society and for Palestine, this week I will contribute to two student-led self-training gatherings.
Today 5pm in Venice & tomorrow, 4pm in Turin/Naples/Padova. www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/11...
Today 5pm in Venice & tomorrow, 4pm in Turin/Naples/Padova. www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/11...
Two anti-militarist events with students in Venice and Turin
In preparation for the national strike on the 28th of November against the militarization of Italian society and for Palestine, this week I will contribute to two student-led self-training gatherin…
www.michelelancione.eu
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
In preparation for the national strike on the 28th of November against the militarization of Italian society and for Palestine, this week I will contribute to two student-led self-training gatherings.
Today 5pm in Venice & tomorrow, 4pm in Turin/Naples/Padova. www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/11...
Today 5pm in Venice & tomorrow, 4pm in Turin/Naples/Padova. www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/11...
Tonight in Turin, Casa del Popolo Estella with Potere al Popolo and comrades to discuss #militarisation and tightened #security measures.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Tonight in Turin, Casa del Popolo Estella with Potere al Popolo and comrades to discuss #militarisation and tightened #security measures.
Goodbye, Spotify! Goodbye to your CEO's billion-pound investment in drones and the development of artificial intelligence systems for military use. Goodbye to your ICE's ads.
For my listening and my HH music, everything else but Spotify. It's a simple, easy gesture. Necessary.
#boycottspotify
For my listening and my HH music, everything else but Spotify. It's a simple, easy gesture. Necessary.
#boycottspotify
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Goodbye, Spotify! Goodbye to your CEO's billion-pound investment in drones and the development of artificial intelligence systems for military use. Goodbye to your ICE's ads.
For my listening and my HH music, everything else but Spotify. It's a simple, easy gesture. Necessary.
#boycottspotify
For my listening and my HH music, everything else but Spotify. It's a simple, easy gesture. Necessary.
#boycottspotify
Thanks to Antonis Vradis and Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero -- two comrades and scholars whose work I admire deeply -- for their generous reviews of "For a Liberatory Politics of Home" in City @dukepress.bsky.social
Antonis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tatiana www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Antonis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tatiana www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Prefiguring liberatory futures
Published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thanks to Antonis Vradis and Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero -- two comrades and scholars whose work I admire deeply -- for their generous reviews of "For a Liberatory Politics of Home" in City @dukepress.bsky.social
Antonis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tatiana www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Antonis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tatiana www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our collective study on the relationship between Frontex and the university is out now OA in @antipodeonline.bsky.social
This work is part of a longer struggle. We hope it will be useful to those fighting the academic-military-industrial complex.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This work is part of a longer struggle. We hope it will be useful to those fighting the academic-military-industrial complex.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Our collective study on the relationship between Frontex and the university is out now OA in @antipodeonline.bsky.social
This work is part of a longer struggle. We hope it will be useful to those fighting the academic-military-industrial complex.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This work is part of a longer struggle. We hope it will be useful to those fighting the academic-military-industrial complex.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
At the Urban Institute today, with my friends and former colleagues -- looking forward.
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
At the Urban Institute today, with my friends and former colleagues -- looking forward.
My ERC project, Inhabiting Radical Housing (2020–2025), has now concluded. I am profoundly grateful to my wonderful team for all we achieved together during these last, challenging five years.
On this page, the project's objectives & achievements: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/10...
Peace
On this page, the project's objectives & achievements: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/10...
Peace
Results of the ERC Inhabiting Radical Housing (2020-2025)
My Inhabiting Radical Housing ERC project has come to an end. I was awarded the grant at the University of Sheffield – thanks also to the terrific support received at the Urban Institute, to which …
www.michelelancione.eu
October 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
My ERC project, Inhabiting Radical Housing (2020–2025), has now concluded. I am profoundly grateful to my wonderful team for all we achieved together during these last, challenging five years.
On this page, the project's objectives & achievements: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/10...
Peace
On this page, the project's objectives & achievements: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/10...
Peace
Everyday, since 1947. Yesterday was Mohammad, 11 years old, killed by the IDF while playing football, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
This is Israel in Palestine. Within and beyond Gaza, within and beyond "you cease", "I fire". Everyday, since 1947.
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
This is Israel in Palestine. Within and beyond Gaza, within and beyond "you cease", "I fire". Everyday, since 1947.
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
11-year-old Palestinian child shot dead by Israeli forces south of Hebron
english.wafa.ps
October 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Everyday, since 1947. Yesterday was Mohammad, 11 years old, killed by the IDF while playing football, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
This is Israel in Palestine. Within and beyond Gaza, within and beyond "you cease", "I fire". Everyday, since 1947.
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
This is Israel in Palestine. Within and beyond Gaza, within and beyond "you cease", "I fire". Everyday, since 1947.
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
Tomorrow, I will be in Berlin to participate in the "Idea(l)s of Home" workshop at the Technische Universität. I will deliver a keynote on my book For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social
I am very thankful to my comrade Judith Keller for inviting & to all for organising.
I am very thankful to my comrade Judith Keller for inviting & to all for organising.
October 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Tomorrow, I will be in Berlin to participate in the "Idea(l)s of Home" workshop at the Technische Universität. I will deliver a keynote on my book For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social
I am very thankful to my comrade Judith Keller for inviting & to all for organising.
I am very thankful to my comrade Judith Keller for inviting & to all for organising.
I am delighted to announce that I have been elected to the directorship of the Interuniversity Master's programme in #Geography and Territorial Sciences at the University of Turin.
It is precisely at times like these that teaching ... (i)
www.geografia.unito.it/do/home.pl
It is precisely at times like these that teaching ... (i)
www.geografia.unito.it/do/home.pl
October 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I am delighted to announce that I have been elected to the directorship of the Interuniversity Master's programme in #Geography and Territorial Sciences at the University of Turin.
It is precisely at times like these that teaching ... (i)
www.geografia.unito.it/do/home.pl
It is precisely at times like these that teaching ... (i)
www.geografia.unito.it/do/home.pl
Today I am in Modena at the International Investigative Journalism Festival.
Together with Danilo Conte and Francesca Coin, we will talk about the fight against war in universities and workplaces.
And then I'll listen to the stellar Francesca Albanese, who will speak shortly after us.
Together with Danilo Conte and Francesca Coin, we will talk about the fight against war in universities and workplaces.
And then I'll listen to the stellar Francesca Albanese, who will speak shortly after us.
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Today I am in Modena at the International Investigative Journalism Festival.
Together with Danilo Conte and Francesca Coin, we will talk about the fight against war in universities and workplaces.
And then I'll listen to the stellar Francesca Albanese, who will speak shortly after us.
Together with Danilo Conte and Francesca Coin, we will talk about the fight against war in universities and workplaces.
And then I'll listen to the stellar Francesca Albanese, who will speak shortly after us.
To boycott everything Israel is the only way forward. But the coloniality of Western inhabiting is responsible for all this. To fight that, we need to get closer to our own homes.
For nothing stands in Gaza anymore, so that our rotten edifices can continue to stand.
[Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]
For nothing stands in Gaza anymore, so that our rotten edifices can continue to stand.
[Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
To boycott everything Israel is the only way forward. But the coloniality of Western inhabiting is responsible for all this. To fight that, we need to get closer to our own homes.
For nothing stands in Gaza anymore, so that our rotten edifices can continue to stand.
[Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]
For nothing stands in Gaza anymore, so that our rotten edifices can continue to stand.
[Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]
I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print.
Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.
Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.
Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion
The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state powe
read.dukeupress.edu
August 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print.
Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.
Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.
Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
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I'm officially a Dr. now!!
Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai.
Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social
Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai.
Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I'm officially a Dr. now!!
Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai.
Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social
Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai.
Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social
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“We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. While searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, my sister suddenly collapsed to the ground. Her body didn’t even have the strength to stay upright.”
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
We are starving
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.
www.972mag.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. While searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, my sister suddenly collapsed to the ground. Her body didn’t even have the strength to stay upright.”
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
I have no words left for these fucking criminals.
At least 104 killed as Israel targets food aid sites in Gaza again aje.io/piv23b via @AJEnglish
At least 104 killed as Israel targets food aid sites in Gaza again aje.io/piv23b via @AJEnglish
At least 104 killed as Israel targets food aid sites in Gaza again
Hamas says Israel has rejected a ceasefire agreement that would release all captives in Gaza, vows to fight on.
aje.io
July 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I have no words left for these fucking criminals.
At least 104 killed as Israel targets food aid sites in Gaza again aje.io/piv23b via @AJEnglish
At least 104 killed as Israel targets food aid sites in Gaza again aje.io/piv23b via @AJEnglish
Who's the new Dr in town!?
Our wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social passed her PhD examination with flying colours (& laude!) with a poignant work on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai
👍 amazing rev @snehakrishnan.bsky.social & Tatiana Thieme + panel @andretwp.bsky.social, G Torino, F Chiodelli
Our wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social passed her PhD examination with flying colours (& laude!) with a poignant work on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai
👍 amazing rev @snehakrishnan.bsky.social & Tatiana Thieme + panel @andretwp.bsky.social, G Torino, F Chiodelli
July 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Who's the new Dr in town!?
Our wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social passed her PhD examination with flying colours (& laude!) with a poignant work on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai
👍 amazing rev @snehakrishnan.bsky.social & Tatiana Thieme + panel @andretwp.bsky.social, G Torino, F Chiodelli
Our wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social passed her PhD examination with flying colours (& laude!) with a poignant work on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai
👍 amazing rev @snehakrishnan.bsky.social & Tatiana Thieme + panel @andretwp.bsky.social, G Torino, F Chiodelli
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Starting Monday morning with a unicorn coffee and (finally) reading @michelelancione.bsky.social highly important and inspiring book!
July 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Starting Monday morning with a unicorn coffee and (finally) reading @michelelancione.bsky.social highly important and inspiring book!
The Polytechnic University where I work has missed another opportunity to do the right thing.
On July 15, 2025, the Academic Senate voted by a majority against the Motion for Gaza presented by a group of senators.
Full story & political statement: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/07...
On July 15, 2025, the Academic Senate voted by a majority against the Motion for Gaza presented by a group of senators.
Full story & political statement: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/07...
The Politechnic of Turin votes against suspending relations with Israel – SHAME!
The Polytechnic University where I work has missed another opportunity to do the right thing. On July 15, 2025, the Academic Senate voted by a majority against the Motion for Gaza presented by a gr…
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July 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The Polytechnic University where I work has missed another opportunity to do the right thing.
On July 15, 2025, the Academic Senate voted by a majority against the Motion for Gaza presented by a group of senators.
Full story & political statement: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/07...
On July 15, 2025, the Academic Senate voted by a majority against the Motion for Gaza presented by a group of senators.
Full story & political statement: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/07...
...with "great humanity, technical precision and attention to shield civilians." For the relentless, ferocious, total annihilation of the 🇵🇸 people, history and place.
July 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
...with "great humanity, technical precision and attention to shield civilians." For the relentless, ferocious, total annihilation of the 🇵🇸 people, history and place.
