Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Biographic Data
| ID | 811027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cesare Di Feliciantonio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cesare |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Feliciantonio |
| SIGNATURE | DI FELICIANTONIO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4830-5212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Solidarities in the quest for queer utopias
This commentary on Andrew Tucker's ‘A Sexuality Pivot’ highlights the relevance of his call in the face of violent backlashes against equalities experienced by queer people – especially trans. Solidarity through difference and beyond scale, I argue, is key for imagining and building queer utopias that exceed the boundaries of the violent present
The origins and evolution of a research agenda on new urban ruins
Almost 30 years later, silence is still here with us: Introduction of the themed issue
Since the milestone publication of Mapping Desire in 1995, geographies of sexualities have found increasing legitimacy and visibility through, among others, publications, conferences and the successful careers of some scholars in the field. However, the materiality of sex and bodies remains overlooked, this making Jon Binnie's critique (e.g. 1997) of the squeamishness of academic knowledge still timely and relevant. By reflecting on the limitatio…
I guess I really survived many crises’: On the benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research
Building on my ongoing ethnographic research with people living with HIV in different European countries, the paper focuses on RD, a Catalan man I have interviewed three times since 2014. In RD's life narrative, ‘crisis’ is a recurring theme including both the most blatant forms, like the severe housing crisis in Spain that followed the global financial crisis, and the most ordinary ones like domestic violence. Analysing the impact of crises in R…
Care, Vital Nostalgia, and the Archive: Notes on Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of Aids
Care, Vital Nostalgia, and the Archive:Notes on Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Cesare Di Feliciantonio (bio) "September 2018. I attend a three day-retreat for men living with HIV in Northern Italy aimed at improving self-esteem, acceptance and emotional awareness. During one of the informal chats at night, we discuss our experiences with HIV-healthcare. Someone says that he is very grateful for the care he receives and the …
Like a piece of meat in a pack of wolves’: Gay/bisexual men and sexual racialization
Human geographers have analyzed the co-constitutive relationship between race, gender and sexualities across different spaces and social contexts and have called for intersectional approaches in discussions of identities, power and space. This article applies an intersectional framework to the processes of sexualization, racialization and exoticization that shape the daily lives and erotic/romantic encounters experienced and narrated by participa…
Chemsex at home: Homonormative aspirations and the blurring of the private/public space divide
Sexualised drug use -usually referred to as chemsex- represents an established cultural practice among gay men in contemporary societies, mostly associated with home settings in urban areas. Against the reductionism of existing studies that conceptualize home as merely the location where chemsex occurs, the paper explores the ways in which the multidimensional character of home shapes chemsex experiences and cultures. Drawing on 25 interviews wit…
Produzione Accademica, Linguaggi e Posizionamenti: Riflessioni a Partire da Decolonialità e Privilegio di Rachele Borghi
Partendo dal testo di Rachele Borghi Decolonialita' e Privilegio (2020), questo scambio a quattro voci realizzato online nel pieno della pandemia interroga alcune delle questioni fondamentali del dibattito accademico critico contemporaneo: posizionalità; linguaggi; produzione di sapere critico all’interno dell’università neoliberista e rapporto con i movimenti sociali; metodologie di ricerca, etica e cura; pedagogia, condivisione e sapere incarna…
Here, there, everywhere: The relational geographies of chemsex
In recent years sexualised drug use, usually referred to as chemsex, has become the object of intense media health-related panic and increasing academic scrutiny. Critical social scientists have challenged pathologising perspectives, analysing the socio-cultural and political economy dimensions of chemsex. Against the silence of geographers in this emerging field, the paper develops a geographical relational analysis of chemsex, focusing on the e…
The housing pathways of lesbian and gay youth and intergenerational family relations: A Southern European perspective
Against the heteronormativity of the increasing field of studies around intergenerational family relations within asset-based welfare systems, the paper analyses the housing pathways of lesbian and gay young people, focusing on family intergenerational relations and the implications concerning emotional, private and sexual life. The paper focuses on Greece and Italy, two countries characterized by the so-called ‘Southern European’ model of welfar…
(Un)Ethical Boundaries: Critical Reflections on What We Are (Not) Supposed to Do
Building on critical readings of the rationalities behind ethical committees and their guidelines, this article analyzes how their positivist, biomedical conception of the research process can have a negative impact on research participants who might perceive their voices erased by these institutional practices. Using examples from my recent research with gay men living with HIV in England and Italy, I show how research participants have conteste…
On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation
Drawing on our situated experience as geographers of sexualities living and working in the Minority World, this response addresses some of the concerns raised by our interlocutors around the use of assemblage thinking, socio-spatial inequalities and subject formation
Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability: Reconceptualising HIV assemblages to explore what else matters in the lives of gay and bisexual men
Recent biomedical innovations in the field of HIV prevention and treatment – namely PrEP, TasP, and ‘undetectability’ – have completely reshaped the experience of living with HIV, as well as the meanings of ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ in relation to sexual practices, leading to new forms of pleasure and sociality for gay and bisexual men in the Minority World. While human geographers have been slow to engage with the changing social dimensions brought by…
On the Politics of Evolutionary Thought
This commentary on Elvin Wyly's paper, ‘The Evolution of Geographic Thought’, aims at stimulating a reflection on the possibilities offered by the politics of evolutionary thought as envisaged in the paper and its use by critical scholars. Through the analysis of the paper's ambivalences towards the politics of evolution and its history, the commentary discusses the limits and the potential of Wyly's effort to destabilise the linearity and unity …
Migration as an active strategy to escape the 'second closet' for HIV-positive gay men in Barcelona and Rome
Centred around the life narratives of HIV-positive gay migrants in two Mediterranean cities, Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain) and Rome (Italy), this paper frames their decision to migrate towards the big city as an active strategy to escape the ‘second closet’, a concept introduced by Berg and Ross in 2014 to refer to the hiding of HIV-positivity by gay men to avoid negative social condemnation. In line with recent literature on gay migration that has…
Struggles over property in the ‘post-political’ era: Notes on the political from Rome and Dublin
Geographical analyses on protests against austerity politics using the framework of post-politics have proliferated in recent years, mostly building on the work of Jacques Rancière and his conceptualisation of the political and the police order. The paper continues this tradition but seeks to move beyond those analyses reducing the political gesture to a ‘rare’ and ‘heroic’ act. It does so by bridging the work of Rancière with the work of Jean-Lu…
Living labs and vacancy in the neoliberal city
This paper evaluates smart city (SC) initiatives in the context of re-using vacant property, focusing on the role of living labs (LL). LL utilise Lo-Fi technologies to foster local digital innovation and support community-focused civic hacking, running various kinds of workshops and engaging with local citizens to co-create digital interventions and apps aimed at ‘solving’ local issues. Five approaches to LL are outlined and discussed in relation…
Governing urban vacancy in post-crash dublin: Contested property and alternative social projects
The scale and severity of property crashes following the global financial crisis has made vacancy a more visible and politically significant feature of cities. Although research has focused on urban experiments in vacant spaces, there has been less emphasis on how the contested property relations around vacancy remake urban governance. In this paper, we argue that debates about vacancy have been a central concern in post-crisis urban governance. …
Spaces of the Expelled as Spaces of the Urban Commons? Analysing the Re-emergence of Squatting Initiatives in Rome
Asserting the need to acknowledge the role of the current crisis and austerity politics in fostering the re-emergence of squatting initiatives in Rome, this article brings together the literature on squatting as an urban social movement, notably Martínez López's holistic approach, with a political economy perspective analysing the current stage of 'late neoliberalism'. In so doing, I use the conceptualization of 'expulsions' developed by Sassen t…
Lost in contradictions
Social Movements and Alternative Housing Models: Practicing the “Politics of Possibilities” in Spain
The paper introduces Gibson-Graham’s conceptualization of the “politics of possibilities” to housing studies in order to reveal how alternatives to the neoliberal housing model can be practiced here and now through the action of social movements. Centred on the main current Spanish social movement around housing, the Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), the paper shows how Gibson-Graham’s conceptualization, built around three moment…
The reactions of neighbourhoods to the eviction of squatters in Rome: An account of the making of precarious investor subjects
The article compares the reactions to the eviction of squatters in two very different neighbourhoods of Rome: the centrally located, former working-class and traditionally leftist San Lorenzo; and the peripheral, recently built, speculation and mortgage-driven Nuova Ponte di Nona. While the reaction of the San Lorenzo neighbourhood to the eviction of Communia (August 2013) was highly supportive of the squatters, the residents’ committee in Nuova …
Queering Communia: The politics of positionality when doing research on squatting in Rome
The politics of positionality in relation to sexuality and desire has remained unquestioned when investigating autonomous and alternative spaces, these studies mainly focused on political positionality through the adoption of militant and action-based methodologies. The article tries to fill this void by discussing issues of positionality related to sexuality and desire when doing research on squatting. The main aim is to discuss how entering the…
Subjectification in Times of Indebtedness and Neoliberal/Austerity Urbanism
How can we analyse the (re)emergence of squatting in relation to the current housing crisis in Italy? Centred on the case of Rome, the paper theorizes this return as resulting from processes of subjectification in the housing sector linked to the raising of indebtedness as a main dispositif of capitalism under neoliberal/austerity urbanism agendas. The political economy‐oriented literature on neoliberal/austerity urbanism is bridged with the post…
Affects, Bodies and Desire: Queering’ Methods and Methodologies to Research Queer Migration
In this paper we discuss the main methodological issues raised by a research project we carried out between 2012 and 2013 about Italian queer ‘creative’ migration in Berlin, focusing on the tensions among mobility/movement, desire, bodies, affects and fieldwork. Following an increasing international debate on the topic, the contribution discusses the (im)possibility to develop a queer method or methodology. We stress how ‘queering’ methodologies …
Social Movements and Alternative Housing Models: Practicing the “Politics of Possibilities” in Spain
The paper introduces Gibson-Graham’s conceptualization of the “politics of possibilities” to housing studies in order to reveal how alternatives to the neoliberal housing model can be practiced here and now through the action of social movements. Centred on the main current Spanish social movement around housing, the Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), the paper shows how Gibson-Graham’s conceptualization, built around three moment…
S outhern’ Alternatives of Urban Diffusion: Investigating Settlement Characteristics and Socio‐Economic Patterns in Three M editerranean Regions
The present study investigates the relation between urban form and the socio‐economic patterns of the resident population in three southern E uropean cities ( A thens, L isbon and R ome) featured by different processes of urban diffusion. The paper goes beyond the literature on sprawl focused on (residential, income and ethnic) segregation and the different features of the inhabitants of the suburbs and those of the inner cities residents. By int…
Subjectification in Times of Indebtedness and Neoliberal/Austerity Urbanism
How can we analyse the (re)emergence of squatting in relation to the current housing crisis in Italy? Centred on the case of Rome, the paper theorizes this return as resulting from processes of subjectification in the housing sector linked to the raising of indebtedness as a main dispositif of capitalism under neoliberal/austerity urbanism agendas. The political economy‐oriented literature on neoliberal/austerity urbanism is bridged with the post…
Governing urban vacancy in post-crash dublin: Contested property and alternative social projects
The scale and severity of property crashes following the global financial crisis has made vacancy a more visible and politically significant feature of cities. Although research has focused on urban experiments in vacant spaces, there has been less emphasis on how the contested property relations around vacancy remake urban governance. In this paper, we argue that debates about vacancy have been a central concern in post-crisis urban governance. …
Affects, Bodies and Desire: Queering’ Methods and Methodologies to Research Queer Migration
In this paper we discuss the main methodological issues raised by a research project we carried out between 2012 and 2013 about Italian queer ‘creative’ migration in Berlin, focusing on the tensions among mobility/movement, desire, bodies, affects and fieldwork. Following an increasing international debate on the topic, the contribution discusses the (im)possibility to develop a queer method or methodology. We stress how ‘queering’ methodologies …
Living labs and vacancy in the neoliberal city
This paper evaluates smart city (SC) initiatives in the context of re-using vacant property, focusing on the role of living labs (LL). LL utilise Lo-Fi technologies to foster local digital innovation and support community-focused civic hacking, running various kinds of workshops and engaging with local citizens to co-create digital interventions and apps aimed at ‘solving’ local issues. Five approaches to LL are outlined and discussed in relation…
Situating queer migration within (national) welfare regimes
Migration as an active strategy to escape the 'second closet' for HIV-positive gay men in Barcelona and Rome
Centred around the life narratives of HIV-positive gay migrants in two Mediterranean cities, Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain) and Rome (Italy), this paper frames their decision to migrate towards the big city as an active strategy to escape the ‘second closet’, a concept introduced by Berg and Ross in 2014 to refer to the hiding of HIV-positivity by gay men to avoid negative social condemnation. In line with recent literature on gay migration that has…
Here, there, everywhere: The relational geographies of chemsex
In recent years sexualised drug use, usually referred to as chemsex, has become the object of intense media health-related panic and increasing academic scrutiny. Critical social scientists have challenged pathologising perspectives, analysing the socio-cultural and political economy dimensions of chemsex. Against the silence of geographers in this emerging field, the paper develops a geographical relational analysis of chemsex, focusing on the e…
Spaces of the Expelled as Spaces of the Urban Commons? Analysing the Re-emergence of Squatting Initiatives in Rome
Asserting the need to acknowledge the role of the current crisis and austerity politics in fostering the re-emergence of squatting initiatives in Rome, this article brings together the literature on squatting as an urban social movement, notably Martínez López's holistic approach, with a political economy perspective analysing the current stage of 'late neoliberalism'. In so doing, I use the conceptualization of 'expulsions' developed by Sassen t…
Struggles over property in the ‘post-political’ era: Notes on the political from Rome and Dublin
Geographical analyses on protests against austerity politics using the framework of post-politics have proliferated in recent years, mostly building on the work of Jacques Rancière and his conceptualisation of the political and the police order. The paper continues this tradition but seeks to move beyond those analyses reducing the political gesture to a ‘rare’ and ‘heroic’ act. It does so by bridging the work of Rancière with the work of Jean-Lu…
The reactions of neighbourhoods to the eviction of squatters in Rome: An account of the making of precarious investor subjects
The article compares the reactions to the eviction of squatters in two very different neighbourhoods of Rome: the centrally located, former working-class and traditionally leftist San Lorenzo; and the peripheral, recently built, speculation and mortgage-driven Nuova Ponte di Nona. While the reaction of the San Lorenzo neighbourhood to the eviction of Communia (August 2013) was highly supportive of the squatters, the residents’ committee in Nuova …
Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability: Reconceptualising HIV assemblages to explore what else matters in the lives of gay and bisexual men
Recent biomedical innovations in the field of HIV prevention and treatment – namely PrEP, TasP, and ‘undetectability’ – have completely reshaped the experience of living with HIV, as well as the meanings of ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ in relation to sexual practices, leading to new forms of pleasure and sociality for gay and bisexual men in the Minority World. While human geographers have been slow to engage with the changing social dimensions brought by…
The housing pathways of lesbian and gay youth and intergenerational family relations: A Southern European perspective
Against the heteronormativity of the increasing field of studies around intergenerational family relations within asset-based welfare systems, the paper analyses the housing pathways of lesbian and gay young people, focusing on family intergenerational relations and the implications concerning emotional, private and sexual life. The paper focuses on Greece and Italy, two countries characterized by the so-called ‘Southern European’ model of welfar…
Queering Communia: The politics of positionality when doing research on squatting in Rome
The politics of positionality in relation to sexuality and desire has remained unquestioned when investigating autonomous and alternative spaces, these studies mainly focused on political positionality through the adoption of militant and action-based methodologies. The article tries to fill this void by discussing issues of positionality related to sexuality and desire when doing research on squatting. The main aim is to discuss how entering the…
I guess I really survived many crises’: On the benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research
Building on my ongoing ethnographic research with people living with HIV in different European countries, the paper focuses on RD, a Catalan man I have interviewed three times since 2014. In RD's life narrative, ‘crisis’ is a recurring theme including both the most blatant forms, like the severe housing crisis in Spain that followed the global financial crisis, and the most ordinary ones like domestic violence. Analysing the impact of crises in R…
Like a piece of meat in a pack of wolves’: Gay/bisexual men and sexual racialization
Human geographers have analyzed the co-constitutive relationship between race, gender and sexualities across different spaces and social contexts and have called for intersectional approaches in discussions of identities, power and space. This article applies an intersectional framework to the processes of sexualization, racialization and exoticization that shape the daily lives and erotic/romantic encounters experienced and narrated by participa…
Chemsex at home: Homonormative aspirations and the blurring of the private/public space divide
Sexualised drug use -usually referred to as chemsex- represents an established cultural practice among gay men in contemporary societies, mostly associated with home settings in urban areas. Against the reductionism of existing studies that conceptualize home as merely the location where chemsex occurs, the paper explores the ways in which the multidimensional character of home shapes chemsex experiences and cultures. Drawing on 25 interviews wit…
Produzione Accademica, Linguaggi e Posizionamenti: Riflessioni a Partire da Decolonialità e Privilegio di Rachele Borghi
Partendo dal testo di Rachele Borghi Decolonialita' e Privilegio (2020), questo scambio a quattro voci realizzato online nel pieno della pandemia interroga alcune delle questioni fondamentali del dibattito accademico critico contemporaneo: posizionalità; linguaggi; produzione di sapere critico all’interno dell’università neoliberista e rapporto con i movimenti sociali; metodologie di ricerca, etica e cura; pedagogia, condivisione e sapere incarna…
On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation
Drawing on our situated experience as geographers of sexualities living and working in the Minority World, this response addresses some of the concerns raised by our interlocutors around the use of assemblage thinking, socio-spatial inequalities and subject formation
S outhern’ Alternatives of Urban Diffusion: Investigating Settlement Characteristics and Socio‐Economic Patterns in Three M editerranean Regions
The present study investigates the relation between urban form and the socio‐economic patterns of the resident population in three southern E uropean cities ( A thens, L isbon and R ome) featured by different processes of urban diffusion. The paper goes beyond the literature on sprawl focused on (residential, income and ethnic) segregation and the different features of the inhabitants of the suburbs and those of the inner cities residents. By int…
Situating queer migration within (national) welfare regimes
Lost in contradictions
Social Movements and Alternative Housing Models: Practicing the “Politics of Possibilities” in Spain
The paper introduces Gibson-Graham’s conceptualization of the “politics of possibilities” to housing studies in order to reveal how alternatives to the neoliberal housing model can be practiced here and now through the action of social movements. Centred on the main current Spanish social movement around housing, the Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), the paper shows how Gibson-Graham’s conceptualization, built around three moment…
The reactions of neighbourhoods to the eviction of squatters in Rome: An account of the making of precarious investor subjects
The article compares the reactions to the eviction of squatters in two very different neighbourhoods of Rome: the centrally located, former working-class and traditionally leftist San Lorenzo; and the peripheral, recently built, speculation and mortgage-driven Nuova Ponte di Nona. While the reaction of the San Lorenzo neighbourhood to the eviction of Communia (August 2013) was highly supportive of the squatters, the residents’ committee in Nuova …
Queering Communia: The politics of positionality when doing research on squatting in Rome
The politics of positionality in relation to sexuality and desire has remained unquestioned when investigating autonomous and alternative spaces, these studies mainly focused on political positionality through the adoption of militant and action-based methodologies. The article tries to fill this void by discussing issues of positionality related to sexuality and desire when doing research on squatting. The main aim is to discuss how entering the…
Subjectification in Times of Indebtedness and Neoliberal/Austerity Urbanism
How can we analyse the (re)emergence of squatting in relation to the current housing crisis in Italy? Centred on the case of Rome, the paper theorizes this return as resulting from processes of subjectification in the housing sector linked to the raising of indebtedness as a main dispositif of capitalism under neoliberal/austerity urbanism agendas. The political economy‐oriented literature on neoliberal/austerity urbanism is bridged with the post…
Affects, Bodies and Desire: Queering’ Methods and Methodologies to Research Queer Migration
In this paper we discuss the main methodological issues raised by a research project we carried out between 2012 and 2013 about Italian queer ‘creative’ migration in Berlin, focusing on the tensions among mobility/movement, desire, bodies, affects and fieldwork. Following an increasing international debate on the topic, the contribution discusses the (im)possibility to develop a queer method or methodology. We stress how ‘queering’ methodologies …
Governing urban vacancy in post-crash dublin: Contested property and alternative social projects
The scale and severity of property crashes following the global financial crisis has made vacancy a more visible and politically significant feature of cities. Although research has focused on urban experiments in vacant spaces, there has been less emphasis on how the contested property relations around vacancy remake urban governance. In this paper, we argue that debates about vacancy have been a central concern in post-crisis urban governance. …
Spaces of the Expelled as Spaces of the Urban Commons? Analysing the Re-emergence of Squatting Initiatives in Rome
Asserting the need to acknowledge the role of the current crisis and austerity politics in fostering the re-emergence of squatting initiatives in Rome, this article brings together the literature on squatting as an urban social movement, notably Martínez López's holistic approach, with a political economy perspective analysing the current stage of 'late neoliberalism'. In so doing, I use the conceptualization of 'expulsions' developed by Sassen t…
Living labs and vacancy in the neoliberal city
This paper evaluates smart city (SC) initiatives in the context of re-using vacant property, focusing on the role of living labs (LL). LL utilise Lo-Fi technologies to foster local digital innovation and support community-focused civic hacking, running various kinds of workshops and engaging with local citizens to co-create digital interventions and apps aimed at ‘solving’ local issues. Five approaches to LL are outlined and discussed in relation…
Struggles over property in the ‘post-political’ era: Notes on the political from Rome and Dublin
Geographical analyses on protests against austerity politics using the framework of post-politics have proliferated in recent years, mostly building on the work of Jacques Rancière and his conceptualisation of the political and the police order. The paper continues this tradition but seeks to move beyond those analyses reducing the political gesture to a ‘rare’ and ‘heroic’ act. It does so by bridging the work of Rancière with the work of Jean-Lu…
Migration as an active strategy to escape the 'second closet' for HIV-positive gay men in Barcelona and Rome
Centred around the life narratives of HIV-positive gay migrants in two Mediterranean cities, Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain) and Rome (Italy), this paper frames their decision to migrate towards the big city as an active strategy to escape the ‘second closet’, a concept introduced by Berg and Ross in 2014 to refer to the hiding of HIV-positivity by gay men to avoid negative social condemnation. In line with recent literature on gay migration that has…
(Un)Ethical Boundaries: Critical Reflections on What We Are (Not) Supposed to Do
Building on critical readings of the rationalities behind ethical committees and their guidelines, this article analyzes how their positivist, biomedical conception of the research process can have a negative impact on research participants who might perceive their voices erased by these institutional practices. Using examples from my recent research with gay men living with HIV in England and Italy, I show how research participants have conteste…
On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation
Drawing on our situated experience as geographers of sexualities living and working in the Minority World, this response addresses some of the concerns raised by our interlocutors around the use of assemblage thinking, socio-spatial inequalities and subject formation
Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability: Reconceptualising HIV assemblages to explore what else matters in the lives of gay and bisexual men
Recent biomedical innovations in the field of HIV prevention and treatment – namely PrEP, TasP, and ‘undetectability’ – have completely reshaped the experience of living with HIV, as well as the meanings of ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ in relation to sexual practices, leading to new forms of pleasure and sociality for gay and bisexual men in the Minority World. While human geographers have been slow to engage with the changing social dimensions brought by…
On the Politics of Evolutionary Thought
This commentary on Elvin Wyly's paper, ‘The Evolution of Geographic Thought’, aims at stimulating a reflection on the possibilities offered by the politics of evolutionary thought as envisaged in the paper and its use by critical scholars. Through the analysis of the paper's ambivalences towards the politics of evolution and its history, the commentary discusses the limits and the potential of Wyly's effort to destabilise the linearity and unity …
The housing pathways of lesbian and gay youth and intergenerational family relations: A Southern European perspective
Against the heteronormativity of the increasing field of studies around intergenerational family relations within asset-based welfare systems, the paper analyses the housing pathways of lesbian and gay young people, focusing on family intergenerational relations and the implications concerning emotional, private and sexual life. The paper focuses on Greece and Italy, two countries characterized by the so-called ‘Southern European’ model of welfar…
Care, Vital Nostalgia, and the Archive: Notes on Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of Aids
Care, Vital Nostalgia, and the Archive:Notes on Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Cesare Di Feliciantonio (bio) "September 2018. I attend a three day-retreat for men living with HIV in Northern Italy aimed at improving self-esteem, acceptance and emotional awareness. During one of the informal chats at night, we discuss our experiences with HIV-healthcare. Someone says that he is very grateful for the care he receives and the …
Like a piece of meat in a pack of wolves’: Gay/bisexual men and sexual racialization
Human geographers have analyzed the co-constitutive relationship between race, gender and sexualities across different spaces and social contexts and have called for intersectional approaches in discussions of identities, power and space. This article applies an intersectional framework to the processes of sexualization, racialization and exoticization that shape the daily lives and erotic/romantic encounters experienced and narrated by participa…
Chemsex at home: Homonormative aspirations and the blurring of the private/public space divide
Sexualised drug use -usually referred to as chemsex- represents an established cultural practice among gay men in contemporary societies, mostly associated with home settings in urban areas. Against the reductionism of existing studies that conceptualize home as merely the location where chemsex occurs, the paper explores the ways in which the multidimensional character of home shapes chemsex experiences and cultures. Drawing on 25 interviews wit…
Produzione Accademica, Linguaggi e Posizionamenti: Riflessioni a Partire da Decolonialità e Privilegio di Rachele Borghi
Partendo dal testo di Rachele Borghi Decolonialita' e Privilegio (2020), questo scambio a quattro voci realizzato online nel pieno della pandemia interroga alcune delle questioni fondamentali del dibattito accademico critico contemporaneo: posizionalità; linguaggi; produzione di sapere critico all’interno dell’università neoliberista e rapporto con i movimenti sociali; metodologie di ricerca, etica e cura; pedagogia, condivisione e sapere incarna…
Here, there, everywhere: The relational geographies of chemsex
In recent years sexualised drug use, usually referred to as chemsex, has become the object of intense media health-related panic and increasing academic scrutiny. Critical social scientists have challenged pathologising perspectives, analysing the socio-cultural and political economy dimensions of chemsex. Against the silence of geographers in this emerging field, the paper develops a geographical relational analysis of chemsex, focusing on the e…
Solidarities in the quest for queer utopias
This commentary on Andrew Tucker's ‘A Sexuality Pivot’ highlights the relevance of his call in the face of violent backlashes against equalities experienced by queer people – especially trans. Solidarity through difference and beyond scale, I argue, is key for imagining and building queer utopias that exceed the boundaries of the violent present
The origins and evolution of a research agenda on new urban ruins
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Geography (7 works)