Mercredi 12 novembre 2025
12h30 à 14h00
INRS (385, rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal). Local 3114
Conférence offerte en anglais seulement
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Résumé de la conférence
The talk will delve into the dynamics of student housing financialisation, highlighting how evolving forms of statecraft, urban branding strategies, and a dominant discourse around the need to “close the gap” between demand and supply of student beds have shaped an increasingly financialised student housing landscape in Milan, Italy. It will explore how the local state’s role as an enabler of financialisation intersects with varying degrees of embeddedness and visibility of key financial and real estate actors in the city, and how these shifting relationships may open (or constrain) possibilities for grassroots contestation of the financialisation of housing and urban development.
Conférencière invitée
Carola Ludovica Giannotti Mura is a PhD candidate in URBEUR – Urban Studies at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she holds a position funded by the PRIN PNRR project “LINUS – Living the University City.” She is especially interested in the political economy of housing and in its impact on urban transformations, imaginaries and moral economies. Her current research focuses on the financialisation of rental housing for students and young professionals in Milan, Italy.