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Biografia

Lidia Katia C. Manzo è Ricercatrice Tenure Track in Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi presso l’Universitas Mercatorum. 

Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale all’Università di Trento, con un’affiliazione alla City University of New York (CUNY), dove ha approfondito lo studio delle culture urbane e dei processi di gentrification. È stata Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow per il progetto europeo CITY-OF-CARE, da cui è nato l’omonimo network internazionale di cui è fondatrice. 

La sua attività di ricerca esplora la città come spazio relazionale e simbolico, con un focus su disuguaglianze urbane, infrastrutture di cura, insicurezza abitativa e alimentare, stigma territoriale e pratiche di resistenza comunitaria.

Utilizza metodologie etnografiche e partecipative, conducendo ricerche sul campo in Italia, Irlanda e Stati Uniti, e pubblicando su riviste scientifiche internazionali e volumi collettanei. È autrice dei libri Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan’s Chinatown (Springer, 2023); Quartieri operai: Identità e trasformazioni (Odoya, 2023); e delle prossime monografie Abitare la soglia: Cura, salute mentale e comunità (DeriveApprodi, in uscita nel 2025) e CARE, HEALTH and HOUSING: Crisis, Experiences and Answers (Bristol University Press, in uscita nel 2025).

Attualmente è Co-Principal Investigator del progetto internazionale NEW MURALISM – Urban Futures Through the Arts in Italy (Leverhulme Trust, Università di Manchester, Regno Unito), che indaga come le opere d’arte pubblica site-specific stiano ridefinendo lo spazio urbano in Italia, producendo nuovi immaginari estetici e interrogando le formazioni sociali e politiche. Coordina in particolare il lavoro etnografico multi-situato e l’analisi delle politiche pubbliche sul campo. 

Nel 2024 è stata Visiting Research Fellow presso KU Leuven (Belgio) e Research Associate presso il Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation dell’Università di Oxford.

Facoltà

Scienze della Società e della Comunicazione

Materia d'insegnamento

Digital and Social Media Management

Dipartimento

Scienze umane e sociali

Docente di riferimento

L20 - Comunicazione e multimedia

Ricevimento

Martedì, dalle ore 9:30 alle ore 11:30

Modalità di prenotazione degli uffici

Digitale, previo appuntamento via email con la docente, per verificare la disponibilità oraria.

Società scientifiche

American Sociological Association (ASA)

International Sociological Association (ISA) — membro dei seguenti comitati di ricerca:

  • RC03 (Comunità)

  • RC21 (Sociologia urbana e regionale)

  • RC43 (Housing)

  • WG03 (Sociologia visuale)

Association of American Geographers (AAG)

Geographical Society of Ireland (GSI)

Convegni Scientifici

ORGANIZED conference tracks and seminars

 

Date

Title

Place

2024

December, 4

Seminar Organizer and chair: Why Should We Care About Healthier Homes?” for the Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) at Kellogg College, Oxford University.

Oxford,

UK

2024

June, 18-19

International Workshop Co-organizer and discussant: The Financialization of Social Housing” with Manuel B. Aalbers (KU Leuven) and Rory Hearne (Maynooth University) for the FWO – Research Foundation Flanders.

Brussels, Belgium

2023

November, 25

Session Co-organizer and discussant: Reproductive justice and COVID: families and care during the pandemic, in Europe and the US”, with Eva-Sabine Zehelein (University of Frankfurt) for “Beyond Genders. Intersectionality between theory and practice” conference organized by CIRSDe – Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerche e Studi delle Donne e di Genere at Turin University.

Turin,

Italy

2022

May, 18-20

Session Organizer and discussant: Social Housing in the aftermath of Covid-19” for the annual Conference of Irish Geographers.

Limerick, Ireland

2021

November, 24

Seminar Organizer: Ambivalent and Consistent Relationships: The Role of Personal Networks in Cases of Domestic Violence" by Elisa Bellotti, Manchester University for “Dialogues” seminar series of the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.

Milan,

Italy

2021

July, 25

Session Organizer: Love in the Diverse City” for ISA Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development annual meeting.

Antwerp, Belgium

(online)

2019

December, 12

Session Organizer and discussant: Ethnographic Accounts of Personal Networks” for SIAA (Italian Society for Applied Anthropology) VII annual meeting.

Ferrara,

Italy

2018

July, 16

Session Co-organizer and discussant: Putting the Financialisation of Housing in the ‘Rights’ Place: A Multi-Scalar Perspective” for ISA World Congress of Sociology.

Toronto, Canada

2018

May, 8-9

International Workshop co-organizer, panel discussant, and fieldtrip leaderPost-Crash Cities: Housing Financialisation, late-Neoliberalism and Community Responses” for Conference of Irish Geographers 2018.

Maynooth, Ireland

2016

April 27

Seminar organizer and discussant: “Governing the city in a post-crisis context. The case of Dublin” by Niamh Moore-Cherry at Politecnico di Milano.

Milan,

Italy

2015

August 27-29

Session Co-organizer and discussant: “Investigating urban image making: actors processes and tactics” for ISA RC21 International Conference.

Urbino,

Italy

2014

December 17

Seminar Co-organizer and discussant: “The Political Economy of Spaces of Exclusion” by Manuel Aalbers at Politecnico di Milano.

Milan,

Italy

2014

November 17

Seminar Co-organizer and discussant: “Real estate bubble, crisis, anti-eviction movements (cases from Spain)” by Marisol Garcìa at Politecnico di Milano.

Milan,

Italy

2014

Sept.17

Seminar Co-organizer and discussant: “How is family housing property reshaping welfare regimes?” for ERC HOUWEL project on housing markets and welfare state transformations, at Politecnico di Milano.

Milan,

Italy

2014

July 13-19

Session Co-organizer and discussant: “Too Much and Too Little: Urban Landscapes of Homelessness and Gentrification” for ISA World Congress of Sociology.

Yokohama, Japan

2014

April 15

Seminar organizer: "The rent-gap and territorial stigmatization: conceptual linkages in the analysis of displacement" by Tom Slater at the University of Trento.

Trento,

Italy

2013

Sept. 27-29

Symposium Coordinator: "Mi Generation Camp" first edition of the three days Forum of Youth Policies, for the City of Milan.

Milan,

Italy

2013

May 20

Discussant at the seminar "How to organize a roof over one’s head when one has a low and discountinuous budget" organized by Bricocoli M. and Sabatinelli S. at Politecnico di Milano.

Milan,

Italy

2012

August 1-4

Session Organizer and discussant: “Culture and visual forms of power. Experiencing contemporary spaces of resistance” for 2012 Second ISA Forum of Sociology.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

KEY international conference PRESENTATIONS (selection)

Date

Title

Place

2025

June, 5-8

“Caring Through Crisis: The Health Impact of Neglected Social Housing and the Power of Women’s Networks in inner-city Dublin” for the Fourth Global

Carework Summit, Duke University.

Durham, North Carolina

USA

2024

June, 19

“Trauma Under the Threat of Social Housing Financialization: OliverBond House Regeneration and the Struggle for Community in Dublin” for the international workshop "The Financialization of Social Housing”, FWO – Research Foundation Flanders.

Brussels, Belgium

2024

April, 15-18

“Inadequate Social Housing and Health: A City of Care Approach in All Policies” for the Housing Studies Association “Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives: Exploring the Intersections of Health and Housing” conference.

Sheffield

UK

2023

May, 17

“Engaging in mixed methods research for a better health in Dublin 8” the annual Conference of Irish Geographers.

Wexford,

Ireland

2022

November, 28

“La città della cura. Prospettive di genere nella finanziarizzazione dell’edilizia sociale” for the conference "La seconda città. Sguardi e corpi negli spazi urbani”Department of Law at Ferrara University

Ferrara,

Italy

2022

August, 26

“Defaming Narratives: Poverty, Territorial Stigma and Residents Pride of Place in Inner City Dublin” for RC21 2022 conference

Athens, Greece

2022

June 24

"Resisting Financialization of Social Housing through Networks of Care: a Gendered Perspective” for the annual SISEC conference.

Bologna,

Italy

2022

March, 1

“It’s not good for the SOUL. It’s not good for the HEART. It’s not good for the HEAD”. CITY-OF-CARE: a Gendered perspective on the Financialization of Social Housing for AAG 2022 annual meeting

New York, USA

ONLINE

2021

September, 14

CITY-OF-CARE: a Gendered perspective on the Financialization of Social Housing” for IBA Lab 2021

Vienna, Austria

2021

July, 24

The Food Frontier: Consuming Gentrification in Sunset Park Slope (Brooklyn, NY)” for ISA Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development annual meeting.

Antwerp, Belgium

ONLINE

2021

July 7

"La reinvenzione della vita quotidiana in lockdown" (in Italian) roundtable discussion for the “Everyday Life” section of the Italian Association of Sociology in collaboration with Cambio “OpenLab on Covid” journal special issue for my research on couple relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic (Carocci 2021)

ONLINE

2021

June 24

"Reti del quotidiano e impatto della pandemia: spazi, tempi, corpi" (in Italian) roundtable discussion for the SISCC (Italian Society of Sociology, Culture and Communication) for my research on couple relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic (Carocci 2021)

ONLINE

2021

June, 5

Academic mothers being left behind during covid-19: challenges and opportunities toward a new culture of care and citizenship” for International Conference of the journal Scuola Democratica.

Florence, Italy

ONLINE

2021

April 9

CITY-OF-CARE: a Gendered perspective on the Financialization of Social Housing” for AAG 2021 annual meeting

Seattle,

USA

ONLINE

2021

March 31

WORKING MOTHERS IN LOCKDOWN: Everyday Tactics and Moral Subjectivities during Covid-19 in Italy and USfor ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK) annual conference 

St Andrews, UK

ONLINE

2019

June 12

"Bond Girls": Women's Relationalities of Care in Austerity Ireland,” Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA).

Leicester,

UK

2019

May, 15-18

“Being in Love at the Time of Globalization: Exploring Diversity in Intercultural Relationships among Young Adults in the Italian Context,” 7th EUGEO Congress.

Galway, Ireland

2019

May, 15-18

“Squatter Movements, Gentrification, and the Production of (Alternative) Public Life: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Milan,” 7th EUGEO Congress.

Galway, Ireland

2018

July, 21

Supported Home Ownership and Adult Independence in Milan: The Gilded Cage of Family Housing Gifts and Transfers” for ISA World Congress of Sociology.

Toronto, Canada

2018

May 12

“Reciprocity, Community, and Commodification of (social) Housing in Dublin,” Conference of Irish Geographers 2018.

Maynooth, Ireland

2018

May 9

“‘People helping one another when you have nothing’. How ethnography still counters myths about the urban poor after the crash,” Post-Crash Cities Workshop: Housing Financialisation, late-Neoliberalism and Community Responses.

Maynooth, Ireland

2017

April 5-9

“Lived experiences of resistance and solidarity among working-class communities in Dublin’s post-crash gentrification,” AAG 2017 Annual Meeting.

Boston,

USA

2016

June 16-18

“Gentrification ‘Suspended’? Variegated effects of actually-existing neoliberalism in the aftermath of Dublin’s crisis,” working paper co-authored with Sinéad Kelly, EURA Conference.

Turin,

Italy

2016

March 29-April 2

“Brooklyn's Super-gentrification, Displacement and Community Gardens, An Ethnography of Resistance to Gentrification Forces in Park Slope” session on “Practices of Gentrification” at AAG 2016 Annual Meeting.

San Francisco, USA

2015

February 27

“Community Institutions and Class Inequality in Super Gentrification: a Longitudinal Study of Park Slope, Brooklyn,” session on Gentrification and Public Space, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference.

New York, USA

2014

July 13-19

“Cool Streets: Attitude or Commodification? What - and Who - Is Driving Gentrification Along Two Changing Boulevards in Milan and Brooklyn” for the RC21 on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development and “Community Politics and the Middle-Class Desire for Diversity and Difference. Evidence from 40 Years-Span of (super)Gentrification in Brooklyn's Park Slope” for the RC03 on Community Research at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology on “Social justice and democratization”.

Yokohama, Japan

2013

August 12

“Super gentrification: the loose mix of transition zones. Moving architectural concepts into ethnographic practice in Brooklyn’s Park Slope," Urban Sociology round table on Diversity, Gentrification and Consensus from the Community Prospective, American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Conference 2013.

New York, USA

2012

August 1-4

“The gentrification of sensibilities: Politics and aesthetics in a NYC changing neighborhood,” panel of the  RC21, Research Committee 21 on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development at the Second ISA Forum of Sociology.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

2012

April 14

“Living Boundaries in the Changing Neighborhood,” 14th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference "Public Sociology".

Chicago, USA

2011

October 14-16

“Doing urban ethnography, visually. Making power relations (in)visible in the contemporary city,” 2011 Public Anthropology Conference “(Re)Defining Power: Paradigms of Praxis” American University. 

Washington DC, USA

2011

October 3-4

“People in the changing neighborhood. Urban Conflicts and Social Boundaries. A comparative analysis of two historic neighborhoods in Milan (Italy) and Brooklyn (New York, USA),” Entretiens Jacques-Cartier 2011, Colloque “Métropoles des Amériques: Inégalités, Conflits et Gouvernance”.

Montreal, Canada

2011

July 7-9

“Emergent spaces, contemporary urban conflicts. Experiences of social mix in changing neighbourhoods: the Milan’s Chinatown case study,” ISA RC21 Research Committee Annual Conference, session organized by Gary Bridge and Tim Butler on “Negotiating social mix in global cities”.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2011

April 6

“Ethnic Neighborhoods and Urban Revitalization. The Milan’s Chinatown case study,” BSA British Sociological Association 60th Annual Conference - Panel “Space, Mobility and Place", London School of Economics.

London,

UK

2011

March 17

“A-way from Paolo Sarpi. An Ethnographic Research in Milan's Chinatown” Urban Affairs Association 41st Conference “Reclaiming the City” - Panel 003: Dynamics of Neighborhood Exclusion and Inclusion.

New Orleans,

USA

 

Comitati Editoriali

Frontiers in Sociology – Review Editor per la sezione Sociological Theory

CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios – Membro dell’Editorial Advisory Board

Urbanities – Book-Reviews Editor (2012–2014)

Le Principali aree di ricerca in ambito accademico riguardano:

Le principali aree di ricerca in ambito accademico riguardano le culture urbane, con particolare attenzione alle condizioni abitative e all’insicurezza alimentare come determinanti sociali della salute; le relazioni interculturali, le dinamiche di genere e le responsabilità di cura nella vita quotidiana; e l’uso di metodi etnografici, visuali e partecipativi per promuovere politiche pubbliche più inclusive. Attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare e orientato alla giustizia sociale, i suoi studi analizzano come le trasformazioni urbane, i processi di finanziarizzazione e la riorganizzazione del welfare influenzino il benessere delle comunità marginalizzate.

RICERCA-ORCID

0000-0001-8530-6719

SSD

GSPS-06/A

GSD

14/GSPS-06