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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 8h

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.

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 3d

... To interrogate the politics patching them up. To take forms of the counter-political into our own hands. I look forward to working with students and colleagues to make this Master’s programme engaging and meaningful for all.

michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 3d

...can become both a resource for and an expression of radical care. In the classroom—seen as a safe space for inquiry—we can collectively unpack the processes that shape our subjectivities in racial capitalism. To understand what Otherness is needed to sustain those.... (ii)

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 3d

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

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 12d

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.

michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 23d

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]

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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

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Saanchi Saxena @saanchi.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

Gender, caste, and street vending in Mumbai: a situated intersectional geography

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · Jul 21

“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-...

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

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 19

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

Hamas says Israel has rejected a ceasefire agreement that would release all captives in Gaza, vows to fight on.

aje.io

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 14

Starting Monday morning with a unicorn coffee and (finally) reading @michelelancione.bsky.social highly important and inspiring book!

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you! And the unicorn looks great!!

michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 17

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...

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…

www.michelelancione.eu

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 14

...with "great humanity, technical precision and attention to shield civilians." For the relentless, ferocious, total annihilation of the 🇵🇸 people, history and place.

michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 11

Everyday Israeli humanitarianism.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza

Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’

www.theguardian.com

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 9

The USA are now sanctioning Francesca Albanese calling her fundamental investigative and justice-based work as "warfare".

The same people structurally foraging Israel's military industrial complex aka the Z!10n!st g3n0g1d@l machine.

Stay strong, Francesca. You're not alone 🇵🇸

michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yesterday at Valentino Park, in Turin.

Three hours of public debate and grassroots education against the militarization of our society. With people of all ages and social backgrounds.

Avanti!

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jul 3

In recent weeks, numerous cases have emerged of police officers infiltrating the structures of student-led political organisations in Italy.

What the State Police have deployed against them is a textbook strategy of terror.

Please support our petition: www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/07...

michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jun 30

On boycotting the ISA in Rabat:

a) ISS needs to be expelled, not suspended; b) Z!on!st abstracts need to be removed from the program; c) Affiliations to universities complicit with the g¤n¤c!d3 must be removed

In full www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/06... @pacbi.bsky.social @gs4p.bsky.social

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jun 30

Today at the Georg Simmel Centre for Urban Studies at Humboldt Uni in Berlin, I'll give a talk on my work on the constitutive violence of the Italian home.

Thanks to Ignacio Farias & colleagues for the invite!

At 6pm, Universitätsstraße 3b, Room 002

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jun 28

Sign the petition to not proscribe @palaction.bsky.social

Fighting for Palestine is staying alive, not terrorism!

Sign: chng.it/VMfjCRM4Ww

Context: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jun 27

I am very happy to participate in this debate organized by Neapolitan comrades from the Banchi Nuovi Movement (historically one of the most important workers' movements in and beyond Naples).

July 2nd, to discuss militarization, universities, & Palestine.

Details: www.facebook.com/events/10688...

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jun 25

A must read @972mag

Since May 27, well over 400 Palestinians have been killed and over 3,000 wounded while waiting for aid, according to Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basel."

www.972mag.com/hunger-games...

‘The Hunger Games’: Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone.

www.972mag.com

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jun 22

What to expect from fascist regimes governed by resentment via the logistics of their military-academic-industrial-complex? Racist death as a tool of capital and patriarchal value-accumulation. Racist death on and on. Fuck them!

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