Antonio Stopani
Co-Investigator (DIST, Università di Torino)
Biography
Antonio Stopani is a researcher at the University of Turin where he teaches Critical Geography of Migrations and Human Geography. Trained in geography and modern history at the EHESS (Paris), his research practice intersects archival research and ethnographic forms of fieldwork.
Research interests
Antonio Stopani is interested in the construction of state borders in relation to changes in land ownership regimes and land use in the modern age. He has studied Eastern European migratory flows in Southern Italy and the repopulation of its regions. For more than 10 years, Antonio has been studying the multiple ways in which migrants make space for themselves in contemporary societies through hospitality practices, debt-credit relationships, fictitious brotherhood and sisterhood, real estate investments, work niches. His research is therefore concerned with the social and spatial mobilities of migrants, their circulation networks and diasporic configurations (especially in Italy and Greece).
Selected publications
Antonio Stopani, “La forza del privilegio. Dinamiche e forme di aggregazione attraverso il caso dei Greci Coronei (Regno di Napoli sec. XVI)”, in Gerassimos Pangratis (dir.), La diaspora neo-greca nell’Italia centro-meridionale della prima età moderna (XV-XVIII sec.), Greek Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies of Venice, 2024 (forthcoming)
Antonio Stopani, “Rehabi(li)tating abandonment. Urban occupations and their regenerative practices”, A. Anguissola, A. Buono, G. Miniaci (dir.), Forsaken Relics, 2024, pp. 121-142
Antonio Stopani, Le proprietà di un’occupazione. Un’etnografia dell’ex Moi. Torino 2013-2019, Turin, Rosemberg & Sellier, 2023
Antonio Stopani, “La forza del privilegio. Dinamiche e forme di aggregazione attraverso il caso dei Greci Coronei (Regno di Napoli sec. XVI)”, in Gerassimos Pangratis (dir.), La diaspora neo-greca nell’Italia centro-meridionale della prima età moderna (XV-XVIII sec.), Greek Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies of Venice, 2024 (forthcoming)
Antonio Stopani, “Rehabi(li)tating abandonment. Urban occupations and their regenerative practices”, A. Anguissola, A. Buono, G. Miniaci (dir.), Forsaken Relics, 2024, pp. 121-142
Antonio Stopani, Le proprietà di un’occupazione. Un’etnografia dell’ex Moi. Torino 2013-2019, Turin, Rosemberg & Sellier, 2023
Contacts: antonio.stopani@unito.it
TEAM
Giovanna Astolfo
Co-Investigator
Camillo Boano
Co-Investigator
Edoardo Ciuffreda
Research Assistant
Antonio Di Campli
Research Assistant
Alessandra Faccini
Research Assistant
Manuel Grimaldi
Research Assistant
Stefano Mastromarino
Research Assistant
Richard Lee Peragine
Research Assistant
Antonio Stopani
Co-Investigator
Inappropriable is a research, a collective investigation and a condition of possibility which sets out to interrogate practices of inhabitation, infrastructures of life, of marronage and fugitive worldling, focusing on labour ecologies in territories of migration: frontiers where bodies, spaces and labour are reconfigured through extractive and plantation-like capitalist processes of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion.