Dr Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
My profile
Biography
I am a critical human geographer working at the intersection of different fields: urban geography, political economy, housing, health (HIV) and sexualities.
Editorial Board membership
I am one of the editors of Social & Cultural Geography (Social & Cultural Geography | Taylor & Francis Online (tandfonline.com)
I am one of the co-editors of ACME: an International Journal for Critical Geographies (https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme)
I am also a member of the editorial board of Gender, Place & Culture (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/current)
Projects
In 2022 I am conducting a research project (“The importance of housing security and homemaking practices to navigate uncertainty for people ageing with HIV”), funded by Manchester Metropolitan University (Accelerator Grants), on the impact of different forms of housing provision on everyday life and wellbeing for people ageing with HIV in England, Italy and Spain.
In 2020-2021 I was part of the research project “A Manifesto for Pandemic Sexual and Gendered Citizenships: Practicing Urgent Witnessing” funded by the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, bringing together scholars based in/working on different contexts (England; India; Ireland; Italy; Mexico; Trinidad) to explore, question and theorize how the pandemic and lockdown have exacerbated inequalities and vulnerabilities for gender and sexual minority groups specifically around social cohesion.
In 2018-20 I was the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions International Fellowship (grant number 747110) to investigate the life choices of different generations of gay men living with HIV in England and Italy.
In 2016-2018 I worked in Ireland as a postdoctoral researcher on two externally-funded projects in the field of urban geography, notably vacancy and ‘smart’ redevelopment (‘The New Urban Ruins’ led by Dr Cian O’Callaghan, Trinity College Dublin; ‘The Programmable City’ led by Prof Rob Kitchin at Maynooth University).
Teaching
I am the unit leader for ‘Contemporary Urbanism’ (L5) and ‘Specialist Field Investigation (Rome)’ (L6). From 2022-2023 I will be the unit leader also for ‘Economic and Development Geographies’ (L5).
In 2021-2022 I also covered as unit leader for ‘Introducing Human Geographies 2’ (L4).
I regularly contribute to the units ‘Geographies of Citizenship and Social Justice’ (L6), ‘Critical Human Geography’ (L6), ‘Frontiers in Human Geography’ (L5) and ‘Professional Geographer’ (L4).
Supervision
I am happy to supervise human geography projects with a contemporary urban focus. Examples of topics for projects include: housing trajectories; the housing crisis; contemporary social movements; feminist and queer understanding of home; urban poverty, polarization and segregation; homelessness; geographies of HIV; cities and migration; LGBT migrants; geographies of welfare; financial geographies; gentrification and displacement; neoliberal urbanism.
Research outputs
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Cardullo, P., Feliciantonio, C.D., Kitchin, R. The Right to the Smart City.
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Chapters in books
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Gay men living with HIV in England and Italy in times of undetectability: a life course perspective.' In Blidon, M., Brunn, S.D. (ed.) Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places: a changing world. Springer, pp. 235-246.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Gay Men Living with HIV in England and Italy in Times of Undetectability: A Life Course Perspective.' Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places: A Changing World. pp. 235-246.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability.' In Henrickson, M., Charles, C., Ganesh, S., Giwa, S., Kwok, K.D., Semigina, T. (ed.) HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life. Policy Press, pp. 67-83.
Feliciantonio, C.D. 'Against the Romance of the Smart Community: The Case of Milano 4 You.' The Right to the Smart City. pp. 99-110.
Kitchin, R., Cardullo, P., Feliciantonio, C.D. 'Citizenship, Justice, and the Right to the Smart City.' The Right to the Smart City. pp. 1-24.
Crowhurst, I., Testaì, P., Feliciantonio, C.D., Geymonat, G.G. 'Italy.' Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe. pp. 317-330.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Student migrants and squatting in Rome at times of austerity.' Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy: Resistance and Destabilization of Racist Regulatory Policies and B/Ordering Mechanisms. pp. 93-98.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'In Italy it’s different: Pride as a space of political contention.' The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities. pp. 97-104.
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Journal articles
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Here, there, everywhere: The relational geographies of chemsex.' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
Boussalem, A., Di Feliciantonio, C. '‘Like a piece of meat in a pack of wolves’: gay/bisexual men and sexual racialization.' Gender, Place and Culture,
Di Feliciantonio, C. '‘I guess I really survived many crises’: On the benefits of longitudinal ethnographic research.' Area,
Di Feliciantonio, C., Ferrante, N., Giubilaro, C., Pecorelli, V. 'Produzione Accademica, Linguaggi e Posizionamenti: Riflessioni a Partire da Decolonialità e Privilegio di Rachele Borghi.' Acme: an international e-journal for critical geographies, 22(1) pp. 860-877.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Brown, G. 'Chemsex at home: homonormative aspirations and the blurring of the private/public space divide.' Geoforum, 147pp. 103879-103879.
Brown, G., Di Feliciantonio, C. 'On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation.' Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(1) pp. 140-144.
Brown, G., Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability: Reconceptualising HIV assemblages to explore what else matters in the lives of gay and bisexual men.' Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(1) pp. 100-118.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Dagkouly-Kyriakoglou, M. 'The housing pathways of lesbian and gay youth and intergenerational family relations: A Southern European perspective.' Housing Studies, 37(3) pp. 414-434.
Di Feliciantonio, C. '(Un)Ethical Boundaries: Critical Reflections on What We Are (Not) Supposed to Do.' Professional Geographer, 73(3) pp. 496-503.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'On the Politics of Evolutionary Thought.' Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Human Geography), 112(5) pp. 532-535.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Dagkouly-Kyriakoglou, M. 'The housing pathways of lesbian and gay youth and intergenerational family relations: a Southern European perspective.' Housing Studies,
Di Feliciantonio, C., O’Callaghan, C. 'Struggles over property in the ‘post-political’ era: notes on the political from Rome and Dublin.' Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38(2) pp. 195-213.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Migration as an active strategy to escape the ‘second closet’ for HIV-positive gay men in Barcelona and Rome.' Social and Cultural Geography, 21(9) pp. 1177-1196.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Inclusion in the homonormative world city: The case of gay migrants living with HIV in Barcelona.' Documents d'Analisi Geografica, 65(3) pp. 517-540.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Salvati, L., Sarantakou, E., Rontos, K. 'Class diversification, economic growth and urban sprawl: evidences from a pre-crisis European city.' Quality and Quantity, 52(4) pp. 1501-1522.
O’Callaghan, C., Di Feliciantonio, C., Byrne, M. 'Governing urban vacancy in post-crash Dublin: contested property and alternative social projects.' Urban Geography, 39(6) pp. 868-891.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Aru, S. 'From (urban) commons to commoning: Political practices and horizons in the Mediterranean context. Introduction to the special issue.' ACME, 17(2) pp. 258-268.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Does love drive spaces of commoning?.' ACME, 17(2) pp. 454-479.
Cardullo, P., Kitchin, R., Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Living labs and vacancy in the neoliberal city.' Cities, 73pp. 44-50.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Queering Communia: the politics of positionality when doing research on squatting in Rome.' Gender, Place and Culture, 24(3) pp. 426-437.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Social Movements and Alternative Housing Models: Practicing the “Politics of Possibilities” in Spain.' Housing, Theory and Society, 34(1) pp. 38-56.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Spaces of the Expelled as Spaces of the Urban Commons? Analysing the Re-emergence of Squatting Initiatives in Rome.' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(5) pp. 708-725.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Gadelha, K.B., DasGupta, D. '‘Queer(y)ing methodologies: doing fieldwork and becoming queer’–guest editorial.' Gender, Place and Culture, 24(3) pp. 403-412.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Gadelha, K.B. 'Affects, Bodies and Desire: ‘Queering’ Methods and Methodologies to Research Queer Migration.' Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 108(3) pp. 275-288.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Aalbers, M.B. 'The Prehistories of Neoliberal Housing Policies in Italy and Spain and Their Reification in Times of Crisis.' Housing Policy Debate, 28(1) pp. 135-151.
Feliciantonio, C.D. 'The reactions of neighbourhoods to the eviction of squatters in Rome: An account of the making of precarious investor subjects.' European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(4) pp. 352-367.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'Subjectification in Times of Indebtedness and Neoliberal/Austerity Urbanism.' Antipode, 48(5) pp. 1206-1227.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Gadelha, K.B. 'Situating queer migration within (national) welfare regimes.' Geoforum, 68pp. 1-9.
Aalbers, M.B., Di Feliciantonio, C., Adkins, L., Christophers, B., Haiven, M., Hall, S. 'Debt to Society: Accounting for Life Under Capitalism.' DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 6(3) pp. 316-328.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe. A Rainbow Europe?.' SEXUALITIES, 19(8) pp. 997-999.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Salvati, L. ''Southern' Alternatives of Urban Diffusion: Investigating Settlement Characteristics and Socio-Economic Patterns in Three Mediterranean Regions.' Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 106(4) pp. 453-470.
Di Feliciantonio, C., Brown, G. 'Introduction: The sexual politics of austerity.' ACME, 14(4) pp. 965-974.
Di Feliciantonio, C. 'The sexual politics of neoliberalism and austerity in an 'exceptional' Country: Italy.' ACME, 14(4) pp. 1008-1031.