Ugo Rossi

Currently un-employed (since mid-January 2012)

Doctorate (Napoli, "L'Orientale", Italy); MA (Durham, UK)

Hello, this is the academic webpage of Ugo Rossi. I'm married to Annalisa, with one daughter, Rebecca.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

My educational path has taken place mainly at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" where I first graduated in Political Sciences in 1998 and then I obtained a doctorate degree in Development Geography in 2003. Both my graduate (laurea) and my doctoral theses were supervised by late Professor Pasquale Coppola. In 2000-01 I spent a year in the UK for a master's degree in urban and regional studies at the Geography Department of the University of Durham. After the doctorate, I had research contracts at the L'Orientale University and I held post-doc positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and more recently at the University of Cagliari in Italy. I've also taught in a number of Italian universities, more recently at the University of Cagliari (Economic Geography) and at the Second University of Naples (Spatial Planning and Analysis).

LATEST POSITION
Until January 2012 I have been a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Cagliari. My two-year fellowship (2010 and 2011) was funded by the Regional Government of Sardinia - see below further details on the research project.

UPCOMING POSITION

In October 2012 I will start a new job as 'university researcher' (with teaching duties) in politico-economic geography at the University of Turin, Faculty of Economics. It is a faculty position more or less equivalent to lecturer in the British system.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
My scholarly background is in regional economic develoment studies but since my doctoral research the main focus of my work has shifted to the field of critical urban politics, touching on a variety of issues and themes, including:

- urban growth politics;
- 'new urban politics';
- entrepreneurial cities;
- the politics of public space in regenerating cities;
- creative cities and culture-led urban regeneration;
- logistics, transshipment and the strategies of port cities in the Mediterranean;
- theories of governance and governmentality;
- post-structuralist approaches to urban and regional studies (e.g. network formation, discourse analysis, assemblage theory);
- critical political and social theory.

My research interests concentrate also on wider geographical economic issues relating to the evolution of post-Fordist capitalism, to regional economic development, and to post-development theories and the geographical concept of 'Global South'.

I also like writing on issues relating to the positionality of transnational social scientists and to the publishing practices of early career geographers, and more generally I am intrigued by the critical sociology and geography of the academe, with special reference to the production of post-national publishing spaces.

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECT
Over the last two years I've been recipient of a research fellowship funded by the regional government of Sardinia and administered by the University of Cagliari.

My research project focused on the ways in which cities are responding - in terms of governance strategies as well as socio-economic practices and projects - to the global economic crisis. As relates to my case-studies (Cagliari, other Italian port-cities and the larger Mediterranean region) I'm interested in the transshipment sector as an emerging key-sector in which politico-economic elites devise material-discursive strategies of economic and geographical competitiveness. In this context, I'm reflecting on the conceptual implications of the current structural crisis, in the attempt to overcome the conventionally dialectical understading of economic crises particularly within political economy approaches. I have also an incipient interest in understanding the varieties of capitalism theoretically.

These themes are also part of my involvement in a Leverhulme Trust International Network on urban responses to the neo-liberal crisis across Europe, coordinated by Sara Gonzalez (University of Leeds).

WRITING PROJECTS
At present, along with other ongoing writing projects, particularly those reporting on field research related to the previously mentioned research projects, I'm working on an article on the varying ontologies of capitalism.

Other writing projects include:
- (with P. Giaccaria) a chapter on 'hospitality' for a book entitled 'Mediterranean Lexicon' in English written by Italian geographers as a contribution to the next International Geographical Congress in Cologne this summer
- (with A. Vanolo) a chapter for a Handbook of Urban Regeneration by Routledge
- After New Regionalism: reconnecting Italian southern regions to the space of flows

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
I am co-editor of the Dialogues in Human Geography journal. See: http://dhg.sagepub.com/

I also sit in the editoral boards of Geography Compass (http:/www.geography-compass.com/), ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (http://www.acme-journal.org/) and Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali (http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=3).

Below you can download my CV and some SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

E-mail address: urossi at hotmail.com

My books:

The book has been published in November 2011 (in January 2012 in the US market). Look at the contents and reviews here: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235924

The Italian-language version of the book on urban political geographies (October 2010)

Read the reviews by Sandro Mezzadra in Il Manifesto (6/2/2011) and by Lucia Tozzi in Alfabeta (July 2011 issue), both in Italian http://www.laterza.it/index.php?option=com_laterza&Itemid=97&task=schedalibro&isbn=9788842094470 Read also the symposium on the book in the Italian-language journal "Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali" with contributions by P Bonora, F Indovina and E Mingione (downloadable in this website)

My research monograph on the politics of urban development in Naples (published in November 2009), with a foreword by Andy Jonas (University of Hull):

Up-dated: April 2012

Open diary:

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27 March 2012

Excellent news! I've finally got a faculty position - subject to probation after three years and then becomes permanent - through a 'concorso' at the University of Torino, in Italy. I still can't believe it after so many years in a limbo of Italian-style precariousness, my doctoral degree was awarded almost ten years ago (I described this condition and its wider implications in a paper I published in Area, which can be downloaded in this website).

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15 December 2011

The journal 'City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action' (see also its interactive website http://www.city-analysis.net/) has published my critical review of 'Rising Shanghai', an edited book on the economic ascent of this global city. See attachments.

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22 November 2011

This week I've started my research visit in Barcelona within the framework of the Leverhulme Trust Network on cities and the economic crisis entitled 'Towards a Post-Neoliberal Urban Deal". I will be here for 3-4 weeks as a visiting scholar at IN3, the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), hosted by Ramon Ribera Fumaz. During these weeks we'll do fieldwork for our project. UOC is a new university for distance learning; the IN3 Institute is housed in a futuristic building located in the newly regenerated 'innovation district' of Poblenou in Barcelona. On next Wednesday (November 30) I'll give a seminar in the department entitled 'On the varying ontologies of capitalism: embeddedness, dispossession, subsumption'.

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11 May 2011

SAGE has advertised the English-language version (expanded and amended) of my book with Alberto Vanolo: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235924 It's now a public thing, though we're still debating about the final title! Alberto favours "Urban Political Geography. A Global Perspective" (the title appearing in this pre-print advertisement), I support "The Geographies of Urban Politics. The Neoliberal Era"...

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23 December 2010

With the other participants in the Leverhulme Trust Network (see my previous news dating 23 March) we're organizing a paper session at the next RC21 conference, entitled The End of Urban Neoliberalism (as we knew it)?.
See http://www.rc21.org/conferences/amsterdam2011/
The deadline for paper proposals has just passed, we have received an unexpectedly high number of submissions.. the selection process will be painful!

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23 march 2010

Good news! We've just heard from the Leverhulme Trust that we've been awarded a grant for an international network entitled "Towards a post-neoliberal urban deal? Uneven local responses to the global recession". Sara Gonzalez (Leeds) is the coordinator and administrator of this 2-year grant (£ 66,000). The other members are: Stijn Oosterlinck (Leuven), Martin Jones (Aberystwyth), Ramon Ribera Fumaz (Barcelona) and myself (Cagliari)
Visit the network's website: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/network/index.html

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