Practices of Citizenship and Real Estate Dynamics: Roberto Falanga and Chiara Pussetti in conversation with Vando Borghi and Davide Olori

Authors

• Vando Borghi University of Bologna
  Vando Borghi is professor in Sociology of economic and labour processes at the University of Bologna. His research deals with the interaction among policies, institutions and social practices and is conducted on different empirical grounds: labor, unemployment and vulnerability, activation policies, urban transformations, culture and city policies, research and policy bases. In recent years, this research has focused mainly on the theme of the cognitive/informational bases of policies and on the effects of inclusion or exclusion of social actors in the production processes of these same bases.
• Roberto Falanga University of Lisbon http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1059-5509
  Bachelor and Master degrees in psychology (University Sapienza, Rome), and PhD in Sociology (University of Coimbra, Portugal). I have conducted original research upon participatory processes in urban policymaking in Southern Europe, with remarkable track record of published international papers, book chapters, and policy briefs on the topic. In my current position, I am Postdoc Research Fellow (SFRH/BPD/109406/2015) and co-Principal Investigator of the H2020-funded project ROCK (GA 780320) at the Institute of Social Sciences (University of Lisbon). Along with my academic career, since 2014 I have had responsibilities as consultant of the BipZip Programme, which promotes participatory approaches to local development and regeneration of urban neighbourhoods in Lisbon, which was awarded in 2013 as best practice by the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy. Between 2015 and 2016, I have worked as policy evaluator of urban practices of citizen participation for the EEA-funded programme “Portugal Participa: Caminhos para a Inovação Societal” in Portugal. In 2017, I have been contracted by the Council of Europe as international expert on citizen participation for the programme on local development of Eastern European countries.
• Davide Olori University of Bologna
  Davide Olori (Bachelor and Master degrees in Sociology), obtained his PhD in Sociology (University of Bologna, 2016) and Social Science (University of Chile, 2017). He has researched and published on territorial segregation, socio-spatial vulnerabilization and environmental explotation. His is currently a Postdoc Research Fellow at Department of Sociology and Law Economy of University of Bologna, working on the H2020-funded project ROCK (GA 780320), tracing the social consequences of urban regeneration of the university area in the historic centre of Bologna.
• Chiara Pussetti University of Lisbon http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2146-3587
  Chiara Pussetti (PhD in Cultural Anthropology, University of Turin, Italy, 2003) has lectured at graduate and post-graduate levels in Italy, Portugal, and Brazil and has researched and published extensively on the subjects of migration, healthcare, body and emotions, social inequality, suffering and well-being, creativity and public art in urban contexts. Chiara is currently researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, PI of the ICS-UL team of the ROCK project (GA 780320) and of the EXCEL Project (FCT, Portugal, PTDC/SOC-ANT/30572/2017).