Claudio Minca

I am a cultural geographer with a strong interest in social and political theory.

Before taking up my current position, I have worked in a range of diverse international contexts. After having started my academic career in Italy, at the universities of Trieste and Venice, I was appointed as Professor of Geography at Newcastle University and at Royal Holloway, University of London. I then worked as Head of Department at Wageningen University, Netherlands, and at Macquarie University, Australia. My main research projects have focused on the relationship between spatial theory, biopolitics and modernity. I have also written extensively on philosopher Giorgio Agamben and camp political geographies.

My most recent books are Thinking like a Route (2026, with Y.Weima), A Spatial Theory of the Camp(2025, with R.Carter-White), Appunti di Geografia (2022), Camps Revisited (2019, with I.Katz and D.Martin), After Heritage (2018, with H.Muzaini).

I am currently P.I. of an ERC Advanced Grant for the project: TheGAME: Counter-mapping informal refugee mobilities along the Balkan Route.