Michele Lancione is a Professor of Political Economic Geography at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is Co-Director, together with AbdouMaliq Simone, of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab (www.beyondinhabitation.org). His research focuses on housing, gender, and homelessness, and he is actively involved in anti-militarist activism. His latest monograph is titled For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Duke University Press).