Michele Lancione

Michele Lancione (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. He is co-founder and editor of the Radical Housing Journal, corresponding editor at IJURR, and co-director of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab in Turin (with AbdouMaliq Simone).

Michele’s qualitative work offers a critical approach to home and homelessness, focusing on a relational reading of housing and habitation and on processes of dispossession in the contemporary urban. In recent years he focused on Italy as well as on Bucharest, Romania, where he took part in Roma-led housing justice struggles, which also resulted in a feature documentary entitled, A început ploaia/It started raining.

His current funded research include a 5-year European Research Council project entitled Inhabiting Radical Housing, and a 4-year Italian Ministry of Universities project on Precarious Housing in Eastern Europe. Michele’s most recent book is titled, For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke University Press, 2023).