Dr Cesare Di Feliciantonio

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