Curriculum Vitae 2023
Personal Details
Name: Sandro
Mezzadra
Title: Dr.
Position: Professor
Date of birth: 22nd
June 1963
Contact Address: Dipartimento delle Arti
Piazzetta
Morandi 2
40125 Bologna, Italy
Orcid number:
0000-0002-5592-824X
Telephone (work) +39 051 2097274
Telephone (mobile) +39 348 7928987
Fax +39
051 2092001
Email sandro.mezzadra@unibo.it
Education and Professional
Qualifications
University of Turin, PhD History of Political Thought and Institutions
(1993)
University of
Bologna, Laurea in Scienze Politiche,
110/110 cum laude (MA, Political Science) (1989)
University of Genoa, Laurea in Filosofia, 110/100 cum laude (MA,
Philosophy) (1985)
Academic positions
Professor of Political Philosophy, 2020 – present.
Courses taught: “Critical Theories of Contemporary Capitalism” (in English), “Political
Philosophy”, “Politics of Imaginary”, “Politics of Intersectionality” (in
Italian). In charge as a coordinator of research activities, Department of
Arts.
Scientific qualification as Full Professor of Political Philosophy (National Italian procedure),
2013-2022.
Adjunct Fellow, 2012 – present, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney
University.
Associate Professor of Political Philosophy, 2012 – present, Department of Political and Social
Sciences, University of Bologna. Courses taught: “Frontiers of Citizenship”,
“Political Philosophy”.
Associate Professor of History of Political Thought, 2007 – 2012, Department of
Politics, Institutions, History, University of Bologna. Courses taught:
“Frontiers of Citizenship”, “Colonial and Postocolonial Studies”.
Senior Lecturer in History of Political Thought, 1999 – 2007, Department of
Politics, Institutions, History, University of Bologna. Courses taught:
“History of Contemporary Political Thought”, “Frontiers of Citizenship”,
“Colonial and Postocolonial Studies”.
In charge for internationalization,
Department of Politics.
Visiting Professor, 1999-2008, University of Bologna, Buenos Aires campus. Course taught:
“Western Europe since 1945: Citizenship Models and Political development”.
Lecturer,
1996-1997, Department of Sociology, University of Genoa.
Course taught: “Cultural Sociology”.
Fellowships, Scholarships,
Visiting Professorships
Visiting Professor of Political Theory, New School for Social Research, New York,
Department of Politics, August 2017-July 2018.
Visiting Research Fellow, Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung
(BIM), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, August 2016 – July 2017.
Kosmos Fellow,
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie & Berliner Institut für empirische
Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin,
October 2015 – July 2016.
Visiting Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Program in Literature, Duke
University, Durham, NC, January 2015.
Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Programa
Lectura Mundi – IDAES (Institute for advanced studies), October – November 2014.
Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Programa
Lectura Mundi, October – November 2013.
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, December 2010 and
May 2013.
Visiting Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Program in Literature,
Duke University, Durham, NC, November 2010.
Research Fellow, Programme International d’Études Avancées (PIEA) de la Fondation
Maison des sciences de l’homme (Paris) – Columbia Institute for Scholars at
Reid Hall, joint research project “Conflicts, Claims, Law and
Constitution-Building” (2009).
Visiting Fellow, University of Western Sydney, Centre for Cultural Research, Eminent
Research Visitors Scheme (2006-2008).
Research Scholarship funded by the University of Bologna – CUNY (2003).
Research Scholarship – Max Planck Gesellschaft für
Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a.M (1999).
Research Scholarship – Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung,
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (1997-1998).
Post-doctoral Fellowship – University of Turin, Department of Political Studies (1994-1996).
Experience of
international PhD (co-)supervising and/or examining
2023: Université
Paris Nanterre (PhD Candidate: Matteo Polleri; title of the dissertation: Critique
de l’économie politique ou analytique des pouvoirs. Points d’héresie entre Marx
et Foucault).
2023: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (PhD Candidate: Laura Menna; title
of the dissertation: “El
oro negro de la ciudad”: una etnografía sobre la producción del sujeto mantero
y su voz).
2022: Leuphana
Universität, Lüneburg (PhD Candidate: Mouna Maaroufi; title of the dissertation:
Migration and Racialization. Reconfiguring
Infrastructures of Labor Supply after the “Summer of Migration”).
2022: UNAM,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (PhD Candidate: Federico De Stavola;
title of the dissertation: Al sur de la plataforma: trabajo y capital en la
app latinoamericana Rappi).
2021: New School for
Social Research, New York (PhD Candidate: Douglas de Toledo Piza; title of the dissertation: At the Fringes of Legality.
Chinese Mobilities in Uneven Geographies of Development).
2021: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät (PhD candidate:
Marikka Pierdicca; title of the dissertation: Integrationsregime in der Arbeitswelt. Eine Ethnographie migrantischer
Praktiken der Selbstständigkeit in Norditalien).
2020: Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Centro
de educação e ciências humanas, Departamento de sociologia PhD Candidate: Paolo
Targioni; title of the dissertation: Linhas que separam, linhas que unem: percepção
da fronteira na cidade de Cáceres – MT).
2019: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (PhD candidate: Poonam Sharma;
title of the dissertation: The Invisible Politicized Roles and Religious
Disorganization of Bangladeshi and Nepali Migrants in West Bengal and North-East
India).
2019: UNSAM, Buenos Aires (PhD
candidate: Andrea Fagioli; title of the dissertation: Clase y multitud: la subjetividad política desde la perspectiva del
marxismo postoperaista).
2019: King’s College, London
(PhD candidate: Aila
Spathopoulou; title of the dissertation: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying
its Violence: Migrants’ uneven geographies within and against the hotspot regime
governing Greece).
2017: Central European
University, Budapest (PhD candidate: Raia Apostolova; title of the dissertation:
Moving Labor Power and Historical Forms
of Migration).
2017: Université Paris Nanterre (PhD candidate:
Daniel Veron; title of the dissertation: Sociologie des sans-papiers.
Processus d’illégalisation des migrantes et expériences clandestines
(Paris, Buenos Aires,
Montréal).
2016: Universität Wien (PhD candidate:
Antonella Ceccagno; title of the dissertation: Global Labor Regimes and Local Policies:
The Chinese-run Fast Fashion Industry in Prato,
Italy).
2016: Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense – Università
di Torino (PhD candidate: Simona De Simoni; title of the dissertation: Filosofia politica dello spazio: il programma di ricerca di Henri Lefebvre
e le sue conseguenze teoriche).
2015: Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (PhD candidate:
Davide Gallo Lassere; title of the dissertation: Argent et capitalisme. De Marx aux monnaies du commun).
2015 Goldsmith College, University of London (PhD candidate:
Charles Heller; title of the dissertation: Liquid Trajectories.
Documenting Illegalized Migration and the Violence of Borders).
2015 Goldsmiths College, University of London (PhD candidate:
Lorenzo Pezzani; title of the dissertation: Liquid
Traces. Spatial practices,
aesthetics and humanitarian dilemmas at the maritime borders of the EU).
2014
Ohio State University (PhD
candidate: Joshua J. Kurz; title of the dissertation: The Figure of the Refugee).
2014 Université
libre de Bruxelles/LUISS Guido Carli; GEM PhD School, Erasmus Mundus Joint
Doctorate, Globalisation, the EU & Multilateralism (PhD candidate Chenchen
Zhang; title of the dissertation: Territory,
Rights and Mobility: Theorising the Citizenship/Migration Nexus in the Context of
Europeanization).
2013 Goldsmiths College, University of London (PhD
candidate: Marina Tazzioli; title of the dissertation: Countermapping Migration Governmentality. Arab Uprisings and Practices
of Migration Across the Mediterranean).
2012 Macquarie University, Sydney (PhD
candidate: Olivia Hamilton; title of the dissertation: Another(’s) Rome: Difference and Belonging in a Twenty-first Century
City).
2011 University of Paris Diderot –
Paris 7 (PhD candidate: Matthieu Renault; title of the dissertation: Frantz Fanon et les langages décoloniaux.
Contribution à une généalogie de la critique postcoloniale).
2011 University of Sevilla Pablo de
Olavide (PhD candidate: Edileny Tomé da Mata; title of the dissertation: La efectividad de los derechos sociolaborales
de los inmigrantes negroafricanos en Andalucia).
2011 University
of Buenos Aires (PhD candidate: Verónica Gago; title of the dissertation: Mutaciones en el
trabajo en la Argentina post 2001: entre la feminización y el trabajo esclavo).
2006 University
of Frankfurt (PhD candidate: Manuela Bojadzjev; title of the dissertation: Die windige Internationale. Rassismus und
Kämpfe der Migration).
2004 University
of Utrecht (PhD candidate: Rutvica Andrijasevic; title of the dissertation: Trafficking in Women and the Politics of
Mobility in Europe).
Editorial positions
2021 – present: member of the editorial
board of Emancipations.
2021 – present: member of the editorial
board of Politics.
2020 – present: member of the editorial
board of Dialogues in Human Geography.
2018 – present: member of the
editorial advisory board of Critical Times.
2016 – present: member of the international
advisory board of From the South: A Transdisciplinary
Journal of postcolonial Humanities.
2014 – present: member of the editorial review of the series «Frontiers of the Political»,
Rowman & Littlefield International.
2013 – present: member of the editorial
board of Cultural Studies.
2013 – present: member of global
advisory board of the series Pivot. Breaking the Boundaries of Traditional Scholarly
Communication – Politics and Mobility
(Palgrave)
2012 – present: member of editorial
board of International Political
Sociology (published by Wiley-Blackwell)
2008 – present: international
contributing editor, Interventions: The
International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (published by Routledge).
2009 – 2018: member of editorial
board, Traces. A Multilingual Series of
Cultural Theory and Translation (Ithaca, NY – Hong Kong).
2012 – 2018: member of editorial
board of Materiali foucaultiani.
2008 – 2012: member of editorial board,
Subjectivity (published by Palgrave
MacMillan).
2004 – present: member of board of
directors, Studi culturali (Bologna)
2022 – present: member of board of directors,
Scienza & Politica (Bologna)
2003 – 2021: member of editorial board,
Scienza & Politica (Bologna)
2002 – 2004: directing editor, DeriveApprodi (Roma)
2000 – 2002: member of editorial
board, Il mulino (Bologna)
1994 – present: regular contributor
to the daily newspaper il Manifesto (Roma)
1987 – present: member of editorial
board, Filosofia politica (Bologna)
Academic and Scientific
Associations
-
Calcutta Research Group – International Advisory Committee
-
International
Studies Association, ISA (member)
-
Centre
for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, International
Advisory Board
-
Center for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) –
Goldsmiths University, London (until 2018)
-
Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney,
Contesting Euro Visions project key partner (until 2010)
-
Società Italiana Filosofia
Politica
-
Association
des Amis de la FMSH
-
Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des politischen Denkens (until
2017)
- Hugo Preuss Gesellschaft (Vorstand,
until 2015)
Language skills
Active knowledge:
Italian (native speaker), English, German, Spanish
Reading
knowledge: French.
Grants
European Grants
2022-2026: INCA (Increase corporate
political responsibility and accountability). Horizon Europe. Funded by the
European Union under G.A. Nº 101061653. Sandro Mezzadra is a member of the
Bologna research unit.
2019-2021: PLUS (Platform Labor in
Urban Spaces: Fairness, Welfare, Development). Horizon 2020 Call:
H2020-SC6-Transformations. Topic: transformations-01-2018. Type of action: RIA.
Sandro Mezzadra is the coordinator of the European consortium and of the
Bologna research unit.
2019-2020: RELEVANT REALISM (H2020 MSCA-IF-EF-ST). Sandro Mezzadra is the
coordinator of the project.
2016-2020: GLOBUS (Reconsidering European
Contributions to Global Justice). Horizon 2020 Call: H2020-INT-SOCIETY-2015.
Topic: INT-03-2015. Type of action: RIA. Sandro Mezzadra is a member of the
Bologna research unit.
2012-2014: MIGPRO (Beyond Cinicism
and Bare Life: Practices of Citizenship Against Migrants’ Inclusive Exclusion),
FP7-PEOPLE. Sandro Mezzadra is the coordinator of the project.
2011-2014: OECUMENE (Citizenship after
Orientalism), European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (Institutions,
values, beliefs and behaviour ERC-AG-SH2). Principal investigator: Engin Isin
(Open University, Milton Keynes, UK). Sandro Mezzadra is a member of the Advisory
Board.
2010-2013: MIG@NET (Transnational Digital Networks, Migration and Gender),
FP7. Coordinator: Panteion University, Athens. Sandro
Mezzadra coordinates the Bologna research unit (funding: ca. 140.000 euros).
2008-2011: GeMIC (Gender, Migration, and
Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe: an
interdisciplinary perspective), FP7. Coordinator: Panteion University, Athens. Sandro
Mezzadra coordinates the Bologna research unit (funding: ca. 130.000 euros).
2007-2010: ATACD (A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics), FP6.
Coordinator: Goldsmiths College, University of London. Sandro Mezzadra coordinates
the Bologna research unit (funding: ca. 10.000 euros).
International Projects
2020-2023: The Geopolitics of Automation,
Discovery project funded by the Australian Research Council. Sandro Mezzadra is
partner investigator.
2017-2020: Social Movements Lab,
Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University. Sandro Mezzadra co-directs the
Lab with Michael Hardt.
2016-2019: Data Centres and the
Governance of Labour and Territory, Discovery project funded by the Australian
Research Council. Sandro Mezzadra is partner investigator.
2016 (April – December): Politiken
und Vermittlung mobiler Arbeit (“Politics and intermediation of mobile labor”),
project funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Migrants,
Refugees, and Integration, Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und
Migrationsforschung (BIM), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Sandro Mezzadra
coordinates the project with Manuela Bojadzijev.
2013-2016: Logistics as
Global Governance: Labour, Software and Infrastructure along the New Silk Road,
Discovery project
funded by the Australian Research Council. Sandro Mezzadra is partner investigator.
2011-2012: Belonging Differently,
Task force established by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Sandro Mezzadra is a member.
2009-2012: Transit Labor. Creative
Labour and Social Mobilities in the Asian Century, Discovery project funded by
the Australian Research Council. Sandro Mezzadra is partner investigator.
Selection
of keynote lectures and talks, 2013-2023 (online talks during the Covid-19
pandemics, 2020-2021, are not listed).
January
31 2013: Dislocating citizenship and
autonomy, keynote speech at the “Migration and Militant Research Workshop”,
Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London.
June 10 2013: The Poverty of Italian Theory. Postcolonialism
and Beyond, keynote speech at the study day on “Italy and Postcolonial Studies”,
University of Newcastle.
June 28 2013: Migration Studies and Beyond: Mobility, Borders,
Struggles, keynote speech at the Annual
Graduate Conference, “Im/mobilizing
In/equalities: Migration and Marginality in Times of Crisis”, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
Central European University, Budapest.
January 25 2014: Border as Method. Knowledge and Politics beyond
the Nation, keynote speech, “L’Italian theory existe-t-elle? Does Italian Theory Exist?”, International
conference, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense – Université Paris-Sorbonne.
May 30 2014, Desafiando fronteras. Control de la
movilidad y experiencias migratorias en el contexto capitalista, talk delivered
at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Centro de Investigaciones
sobre América del Norte (CINAM).
December 4
2014, A
Historical-Geographical Materialism? Staging a Dialogue Between Marx and Gramsci,
keynote lecture at the international conference “Crisis, Risks, and New
Regionalisms in Europe”, Università di Milano, Polo Universitario Sesto San
Giovanni.
February 20 2015, Condizione
postcoloniale, postcolonialismo, studi postcoloniali. Un provvisorio bilancio,
keynote lecture at the international conference “Archivi del futuro – il
postcoloniale, l’Italia e il tempo a venire”, Università degli studi di Padova.
March 27 2015,
The Multiple Shadows of the Color Line.
Borders, Migration, Labor – and Race, keynote lecture at the 11. Kritnet Tagung,
“Rassismus und Ökonomie im europäischen Migrations- und Grenzregime”, Zürich,
Shedhalle/Rote Fabrik, co-organizzato dal Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens,
Universität Zürich.
June 12 2015,
What is at Stake in the Mobility of
Labor? Borders, Migration, Contemporary Capitalism, keynote lecture at the
international conference “Migration and Late Capitalism. Critical Intersections
with the Asia-Pacific and Beyond”, Presented by the
Migration and Mobility Program of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at the
University of Victoria, British Columbia (Canada).
June 29 2015, A Dialogue on Capital’s and Labor’s Histories, Dipesh Chakrabarty & Sandro Mezzadra, The Bologna
– Duke Summer School on Global Studies and Critical Theories, 2015 edition, Dipartimento di Storia,
Culture, Civiltà, Università di Bologna.
July 3 2015, Capital, Capitalism, Critique. Then and Now,
closing lecture, The Bologna – Duke Summer School on Global Studies and
Critical Theories, 2015 edition, Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Civiltà,
Università di Bologna.
November 11 2015, Migración y trabajo vivo en el capitalismo
global, keynote lecture at the international conference Migración y trabajo vivo en el capitalismo
global. Una discusión
latinoamericana sobre la perspectiva de la autonomía de las migraciones, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México.
December 11 2015, The Multiple Shades of Neoliberalism. Social
Movements, “Progressive” Governments, and new Political Conflicts in Latin
America, keynote lecture at the international conference “Spaces and
Tactics of Politics: Transnational Connections, Neoliberalisation, and the
Reshaping of Civil Society”, University of Turku (Finnland), Department of
Social Research/Turku Political Sociology Study Group” (TURPO).
July 26 2016,
Repensar los márgenes.
Perspectivas poscoloniales sobre la Modernidad y la Globalización, inaugural
lecture held at the Summer School “Canarias y la mirada decolonial”,
Universidad de Verano de Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, July 26-28.
September 6 2016, Global borders,
keynote lecture, held at the Summer school “Border regimes: confrontations, configurations,
transpositions”, organized by the Graduate School of the Humanities,
Philosophisch-historische Fakultät, Universität Bern, Kandersteg (Switzerland),
September 5-9.
September 19 2016, The Potential
of the Logistical Gaze with Respect to Migration, joint inaugural lecture
by Sandro Mezzadra and Manuela Bojadzijev, Kosmos Summer University “Investigating
Logistics”, Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
October 10-12 2016, Borders of the
Human, a three-day discussion with Sandro Mezzadra and Naoki Sakai, A
Winton Chair Cornerstone Event, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
April 10
2017: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism. Toward a Critique
of Extraction Writ Large, lecture held at the University of Virginia,
Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, Charlottesville.
April 14
2017: Operations and Optionality, a
grad student workshop jointly held by Sandro Mezzadra and Bob Meister, Chicago
Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), University of Chicago.
April 19
2017: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism. Toward a Critique of
Extraction Writ Large, lecture held at the Chicago Center for Contemporary
Theory (3CT), University of Chicago.
May 31
2017: Democracy Under Erasure? The European Union and Its Multiple
Crises, lecture
held at the International Institute for Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
June 3 2017: Bordering the Global:
the Multiplication of Labor and the Challenges of Decolonization, keynote lecture at the
international conference “Conflict,
Justice and Decolonization II: Paradigm Shift of the Colonial-Imperial Order
and the Aporia of Human Sciences”,
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, June 2-3.
July 5 2017:
Confronting contemporary capitalism:
dispossession, exploitation, extraction, “Critical dialogue” between Sandro
Mezzadra and David Harvey, held in Bologna in the framework of the Summer
School in Global Studies and Critical Theory, jointly organized by the University
of Bologna, the University of Virginia, and Duke University.
October 12
2017: The “Migration crisis” in Europe and
the Current Global Predicament, a seminar featuring Sandro Mezzadra and Étienne Balibar in conversation, The
Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York.
April 13
2018: Contemporary Capitalism and Extraction:
The Politics of Social Cooperation, a dialogue between Sandro Mezzadra and
Michael Hardt, University of North Carolina, Department of Communication.
April 21 2018:
Bordering Europe. Thinking Migration
Politically in Hard Times, keynote Spring Constellations lecture, New York, New School for Social Research.
November 15
2018: Sealing Borders? Rethinking Border
Studies in Hard Times, Keynote lecture held at the International Conference
B/orders in Motion. Current Challenges
and Future Perspectives, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder),
and Collegium Polonicum (Slubice).
April 24
2019: An Extractive Turn in Global Capitalism?
Patterns of Valorization, Social Struggles, and the State, Talk delivered
at the “Global China and the Future of
Capitalism Seminar Series”, organized by The Department of Sociology,
University of Hong Kong & The Faculty of Social Sciences, University of
Hong Kong in collaboration with The French Centre for Research on Contemporary
China (CEFC).
April 25
2019: Unpacking the Border. Global
Capitalism, Social Conflicts, and the Contemporary Geographic Turmoil, Talk
delivered at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Communication Seminar Series).
May 4 2019:
The Gaze of Autonomy, a Marxist Gaze?
Taking Stock of the Autonomy of Migration Approach, Plenary talk delivered at
the Historical Materialism 2019 Athens
Conference, “Rethinking Crisis, Resistance, and Strategy”, Panteion University,
Athens.
June 16 2019:
Class Struggle, Labor Power, and the Politics of the Body. Marxian Threads
in the Work of Michel Foucault, talk delivered at the Institute for
Research in Humanities, University of Kyoto.
September 13,
2019: Alienation: A Crucial Problematic Beyond the Pitfalls and Shortcomings
of a Concept, keynote lecture held at the “Critical Legal Conference 2019”,
University of Perugia.
October 2,
2019: Proliferating Borders in the Battlefield of Migration. Rethinking
Freedom of Movement, keynote lecture held at the V South by Midwest International Conference on
Latin American Cultural Studies, Liquid
Borders / Fronteras líquidas,
Washington University in St. Louis.
November 2, 2019: Proliferating borders in the
battlefield of migration. Rethinking freedom of movement, keynote
lecture at the Kyiv Biennial 2019 – “The Black
Cloud”, Kyiv.
May 22, 2022: Maritime Migration Across the Mediterranean, lecture
held at the Summer Camp “South Asian Labour Migration and Maritime
Migrants.” Organized by Calcutta Research Group [CRG], Institute for Human
Sciences, Vienna [IWM], Nepal Institute of Peace [NIP], Alliance for Social
Dialogue [ASD], 21-23
May 2022, Kathmandu, Nepal.
June 3,
2022: Rethinking Extractive Capitalism, keynote speech at the Graduate conference
“Extraction. Multiple Frontiers of Power and Resistance,” Department of Sociology
and Social Anthropology, Central European
University, Vienna, 3-4 June 2022.
June 9,
2022: Crisis de movilidad, multiplicación de fronteras y subjetividades
migrantes en la coyuntura pandemica, distinguished lecture delivered online,
Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), Escuela de Humanidades y Educación, Cátedra
Alfonso Reyes.
October 29, 2022: Is Globalization Really
Over? Mutations of Capitalism in an Age of Pandemic and War, keynote
speech at the conference “Marx22,” organized by the Centrum för marxistiska samhällsstudier,
Stockholm.
May 17, 2023: Una genealogía de la precariedad. Trabajo, subjetividad, multitud, public lecture delivered at Es Baluard Museu
d’Arti Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca.
June 7, 2023: Spaces
of Struggle. Rethinking Internationalism in an Age of War and Transition, Annual
Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Solidarity Lecture, London School of Economics.
Publications in English (for a full list of
publications see https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/sandro.mezzadra/pubblicazioni)
a. Books
S. Mezzadra
– B. Neilson, The Rest and the West. Capital and Power in a Multipolar World,
London – New York: Verso, forthcoming (manuscript delivered in May 2023).
S. Mezzadra
– B. Neilson, The Politics of Operations.
Excavating Contemporary Capitalism, Durham, NC and London: Duke University
Press. 2019.
S.
Mezzadra, In the Marxian Workshops. Producing
Subjects, London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
S. Mezzadra
– B. Neilson, Border as Method, or the
Multiplication of Labor, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013.
V. Borghi – S. Mezzadra, In The Multiple Shadows of Modernity.
Strategies of Critique of Contemporary Capitalism, Saarbrücken: Lambert
Academic Publishing, 2011.
b. Edited books
S. Mezzadra
– J. Reid – R. Samaddar (eds), The Biopolitics
of Development. Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present, New
Delhi and Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.
É. Balibar
– S. Mezzadra – R. Samaddar (eds), The Borders
of Justice, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2011.
A. Fumagalli –
S. Mezzadra (eds), Crisis in the Global Economy:
Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios, Los Angeles,
CA: Semiotext(e), 2010.
c. Edited journals issues
S. Mezzadra – M.
Hardt (eds), South Atlantic Quarterly, 119:1, January 2020 (special
section on “Mediterranea: Sea Rescue as Political Action”).
S.
Mezzadra – M. Hardt (eds), South Atlantic
Quarterly, 116:4, November 2017 (special issue on “October! The Soviet Centenary”).
S.
Mezzadra – A. Amendola – T. Terranova (eds), Theory, Culture & Society, 32:7-8, December
2015 (special issue on “Eurocrisis, Neoliberalism and the Common”).
S. Mezzadra –
B. Neilson (eds), South Atlantic
Quarterly, 114:1, January 2015 (special issue on “Extraction, Logistics,
and Finance”).
S. Mezzadra –
N. Sakai (eds), Translation. A
Transdisciplinary Journal, issue 4, 2014 (special issue on “Politics”).
S. Mezzadra – H. Friese (eds), European Journal of Social Theory, 13
(2010), 3 (special issue on ‘Mobility and Migration’).
d. Journal essays and book chapters
S. Mezzadra, “Into
the World Market. Karl Marx and the Theoretical Foundation of Internationalism,”
in P. Capuzzo and A. Garland Mahler (eds), The Comintern and the Global
South. Global Designs/Local Encounters, London – New York: Routledge, 2023:
47-67.
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, “The Capitalist Virus.” Politics, published online 11.7.2022
S. Mezzadra, “Movements
of Migration Within and Beyond Citizenship.” Citizenship Studies, 26 (2022),
4-5: 577-583.
S.
Mezzadra – B. Neilson, “Borders,” in B. Skeggs, S.R. Farris, A. Toscano and S.
Bromberg (eds), The Sage Handbook of Marxism, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, 2021,
vol. 3: 1593-1610.
S.
Mezzadra, “Intersectionality, Identity, and the Riddle of Class.” Papeles
del CEIC, 2021/2: 1-10.
S.
Mezzadra – B. Neilson, “The Geopolitics of Labor,” in L. Weber and and C.
Tazreiter (eds), Handbook of Migration and Social Justice, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2021: 14-25.
S. Mezzadra, “Testing
Borders: Covid-19 and the Management of (Im)mobility,” in W. Baier, E. Canepa,
and H. Golemis (eds), Capitalism’s Death Threat. Transform! Yearbook 2021,
London: Merlin Press, 2021: 246-255.
S. Mezzadra, “Foreword,” in L. Amigoni et al. (eds.), Debordering Europe. Migration and Control in the Ventimiglia Region. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020: vii-xi.
S. Mezzadra, “Challenging
Borders. The Legacy of Postcolonial Critique in the Present Conjuncture.” Soft
Power, 7 (2020), 2: 21-44.
S. Mezzadra – N.
De Genova, “Migration and the Question of New Political Possibilities. A Dialogue.”
Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences, 1 (2020):
337-374.
S. Mezzadra – M. Bojadžijev, “Debating
Platform Capitalism. Introduction.” Soft Power, 7 (2020), 1: 239-242.
S. Mezzadra – R. Samaddar, “Colonialism,” in M. Musto (ed.),
The Marx Revival. Key Concepts and New Interpretations. Cambridge – New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2020: 247-265.
S. Mezzadra, “Abolitionist Vistas
of the Human. Border Struggles, Migration, and Freedom of Movement.” Citizenship
Studies, 24 (2020), 4: 424-440 (reprinted in H. Schwiertz and H. Schwenken,
eds, Inclusive Solidarity and Citizenship Along Migratory Routes in Europe
and the Americas. London – New York: Routledge, 2022: pp. 20-36).
S. Mezzadra, “Class Struggle,
Labor Power, and the Politics of the Body. Marxian Threads in the Work of
Michel Foucault.” Zinbun (Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto University),
50 (2020): 57-69.
S.
Mezzadra, “Preface,” in K. Lynes, T.
Morgenstern, and I.A. Paul (eds.), Moving Images. Mediating Migration as Crisis.
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020: 11-13.
S. Mezzadra – M. Hardt, “Introduction: Migrant Projects of
Freedom.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 119 (2020), 1: 168-175.
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, “Foreword,”
in A. Cooper and S. Tinning (eds), Debating and Defining Borders. Philosophical
and Theoretical Perspectives. London – New York: Routledge, 2019: xvii-xxv.
S. Mezzadra, “Sealing Borders? Rethinking Border Studies in Hard Times.” Viadrina
Center B/orders in Motion, Working Papers Series N. 3, Frankfurt (Oder), 2019. https://www.borders-in-motion.de/working-paper-series
S. Mezzadra, “Forces and
Forms. Governmentality and Bios in
the Time of Global Capital.” Positions,
27 (2019), 1: 145-158.
S. Mezzadra, “In the Wake of
the Greek Spring and the Summer of Migration.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 117 (2018), 4: 925-933.
S. Mezzadra, “A World to Gain: On the Borders of
‘Theory’.” In D. Gentili, E. Stimilli, and G. Garelli (eds), Italian Critical
Thought. Genealogies and Categories. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018:
73-80.
S. Mezzadra et al., “Logistical Borderscapes: Politics
and Mediation of Mobile Labor in Germany After the ‘Summer of Migration’.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 117 (2018), 2:
291-312.
S. Mezzadra, “Marx in Algiers.” Radical Philosophy, 2.01 (February 2018): 79-86.
S. Mezzadra – V. Gago “A Critique of the
Extractive Operations of Capital: Toward an Expanded Concept of Extractivism.” Rethinking Marxism, 29 (2017), 4: 574-591.
S. Mezzadra
– M. Hardt, “October! To Commemorate the Future.” South
Atlantic Quarterly, 116 (2017), 4: 649-668.
S. Mezzadra –
V. Gago, “In the Wake of the Plebeian Revolt. Social Movements, ‘Progressive’ Governments,
and the Politics of Autonomy in Latin America.” Anthropological Theory, 17 (2017), 4: 474-496.
S.
Mezzadra – B. Neilson, “On the Multiple Frontiers of Extraction. Excavating
Contemporary Capitalism”, Cultural Studies,
31 (2017),
2-3: 185-204.
S. Mezzadra,
“MLC 2015 Keynote. What’s at Stake in
the Mobility of Labour? Borders, Migration, Contemporary Capitalism”, in
Migration, Mobility & Displacement,
2 (2016), 1: 31-43. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/mmd/article/download/15466/6178
S. Mezzadra, “Resonances
of the Common”, in F. Luisetti, J. Pickles and W. Kaiser (eds), The Anomy of the Earth. Philosophy,
Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas, Durham, NC and London:
Duke University Press, 2015: 215-226.
S. Mezzadra, ‘The
Proliferation of Borders and the Right to Escape’, in Y. Jansen, R. Celikates
and J. de Bloois (eds), The Irregularization
of Migration in Contemporary Europe. Detention, Deportation, Drowning,
London – New York, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015: 121-135.
S. Mezzadra –
B. Neilson, “Operations of Capital”, in South
Atlantic Quarterly, 114 (2015), 1: 1-9.
S. Mezzadra – N. De Genova – J. Pickles (eds), ‘New Keywords:
Migration and Borders’, in Cultural
Studies, 29 (2015), 1: 55-87.
S. Mezzadra –
N. Sakai, ‘Introduction’, in Translation.
A Transdisciplinary Journal, issue 4, 2014: 9-29.
S. Mezzadra –
B. Neilson, ‘The State of Capitalist Globalization’, in Viewpoint Magazine, 4 (2014), http://viewpointmag.com/2014/09/04/the-state-of-capitalist-globalization/
S. Mezzadra –
B. Neilson, ‘The Materiality of Communism: Politics Beyond Representation and
the State’, in South Atlantic Quarterly,
113 (2014), 4: 777-790.
S. Mezzadra,
‘Review essay: Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital’,
in Interventions. International Journal
of Postcolonial Studies, 16 (2014), 6: 916–925.
S. Mezzadra,
‘Multicultural Specters in the Crisis of European Citizenship’, in J. Steyn and
N. Stamselberg (eds), Breaching Borders.
Art, Migrants, and the Metaphor of Waste, London: I.B. Tauris, 2014: 239-255.
S. Mezzadra, ‘Transformations of a
Furrow. Land and Borders’, in S. de Vajay – P. Donoso – F. Costa (eds), Of Bridges & Borders, vol. II,
Zürich: JRP/Ringier, 2014: 309-337.
S. Mezzadra, ‘Seizing Europe –
Crisis Management, Constitutional Transformations, Constituent Movements’, in
Ó.G. Agustín – Ch. Ydesen (eds), Post-Crisis
Perspectives. The Common and Its Powers, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2013:
99-118.
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, ‘Extraction,
Logistics, Finance. Global Crisis and the Politics of Operations’, in Radical Philosophy, 178, March-April 2013:
8-18.
S.
Mezzadra – B. Neilson, ‘Fabrica mundi.
Producing
the World by Drawing Borders’, in Scapegoat:
Archtecture, Landscape, Political Economy, 4 (2013): 3-18.
S. Mezzadra, ‘The New European Migratory Regime and the Shifting
Patterns of Contemporary Racism’, in C. Lombardi-Diop – C. Romeo (eds), Postcolonial Italy. Challenging National
Homogeneity, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012: 37-50.
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, ‘Between
Inclusion and Exclusion: On the Topology of Global Space and Borders’, in Theory, Culture & Society, 29 (2012),
4/5: 58-75.
S. Mezzadra – P. Capuzzo, ‘Provincializing
the Italian Reading of Gramsci’, in N. Srivastava – B. Bhattacharya (eds), The Postcolonial Gramsci, London – New
York: Routledge, 2012: 34-54.
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, ‘Borderscapes
of Differential Inclusion: Subjectivity and Struggles on the Threshold of
Justice’s Excess’, in É. Balibar – S. Mezzadra – R. Samaddar (eds), The Borders of Justice, Philadelphia, PA:
Temple University Press, 2011: 181-203.
S. Mezzadra, ‘Beyond the Desert, Beyond the State’, in South Atlantic Quarterly, 110 (2011), 4: 989-997.
S. Mezzadra, ‘How Many Histories of Labour? Towards a
Theory of Postcolonial Capitalism’, in Postcolonial
Studies, 14 (2011), 2: 151-170.
S.
Mezzadra, ‘Bringing Capital Back In: A Materialist Turn in Postcolonial Studies?’,
in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 12
(2011), 1: 154-164.
S.
Mezzadra, ‘The Topicality
of Prehistory. A New Reading of Marx’s Analysis of “So-called Primitive Accumulation”’,
in Rethinking Marxism, 23 (2011), 3:
302-321.
S. Mezzadra, ‘The Gaze of Autonomy.
Capitalism, Migration, and Social Struggles’, in V. Squire (ed), The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity, London:
Routledge, 2011: 121-142.
S.
Mezzadra – H. Friese, ‘Introduction’, in European
Journal of Social Theory, 13 (2010), 3: 299-313 (monographic issue on
migration, edited by the authors of the introduction).
S. Mezzadra, ‘Anti-Racist Research
and Practice in Italy’, in Darkmatter,
6 (2010) (http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2010/10/10/anti-racist-research-and-practice-in-italy/).
S. Mezzadra, ‘Living in Transition. Toward a
Heterolingual Theory of the Multitude’, in R.F.
Calichman – J.N. Kim (eds), The Politics
of Culture. Around the Work of Naoki Sakai, London: Routledge, 2010, 121-137.
S.
Mezzadra, ‘Italy, Operaism and Post-Operaism’, in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, ed. Immanuel
Ness, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009: 1841–1845.
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, ‘Border as Method,
or, the Multiplication of Labor’, in Trasversal,
06-08 (http://eipcp.net/transversal/0608/mezzadraneilson/en)
S. Mezzadra, ‘“Property of the Self”, Individual
Autonomy and the Modern European Discourse of Citizenship’, in P. Banerjee – S.
Kumar Das (eds), Autonomy. Beyond Kant
and Hermeneutics, New Dehli – London – New York: Anthem Press, 2007: 37-48.
S. Mezzadra – É. Balibar, ‘Borders, Citizenship,
War, Class. A Dialogue with Étienne Balibar and Sandro Mezzadra’, ed. by M. Bojadzijev
and I. Saint-Saëns, in New Formations,
Number 58, summer 2006: 10-30.
S. Mezzadra, ‘Citizen and Subject. A Postcolonial
Constitution for the European Union?’, in Situations,
1 (2005-2006), 2, pp. 31-42.
S. Mezzadra – F. Rahola, ‘The Postcolonial Condition:
A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present’, in
‘Postcolonial Text’, 2 (2006), 1, http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/393/819
(reprinted in P.K. Malreddy, B. Heidemann, O.B. Laursen, and J. Wilson, eds, Reworking Postcolonialism. Globalization, Labour
& Rights, London – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 36-54).
S. Mezzadra, ‘The Right to Escape’, in Ephemera, 4 (2004), 3: 267-275.
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, ‘Né
qui, né altrove — Migration, Detention, Desertion: A Dialogue’, in Borderlands, e-journal, Volume 2, Number
1, 2003 http://www.borderlands.net.au/issues/vol2no1.html
e. Short articles, interviews, etc.
S. Mezzadra – B. Caccia – Ch. Heller, ‘Mediterranea: Thinking Through a Political Invention
in Tumultous Times. A Conversation’, in Parse Journal, 10, 2020 https://parsejournal.com/article/mediterranea-thinking-through-a-political-invention-in-tumultuous-times/
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson – P. Apostolidis, ‘Critical Dialogue on The Fight for Time and The Politics of
Operations’, in Perspective on Politics, 18 (2020), 1, pp. 230-235.
S. Mezzadra
– D. Correale, ‘Realize ® Refuse ®Exit’, in A. Alpert – S.R. Premnath
(eds), Learning & Unlearning, Shifter 24, 2019: 33-43.
S. Mezzadra
– B. Neilson, ‘Lampedusa’, in
R. Braidotti and M. Hlavajova, Posthuman
Glossary, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018: 228-230.
‘Humanitarianism
Destroys Politicality. An interview with Sandro Mezzadra by Davor Konjikušić’,
in B. Buden – Lina Dokuzović (eds), They’ll
Never Walk Alone. The Life and Afterlife of Gastarbeiters, Wien:
Transversal.at, 2018: 43-51 (also available online: http://transversal.at/transversal/1017/mezzadra-konjikusic/en).
S. Mezzadra, ‘Seeing Like a Migrant’ (review of
Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant,
Stanford University Press, 2015), June 2016, https://itself.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/book-event-the-figure-of-the-migrant-seeing-like-a-migrant-mezzadra/
S. Mezzadra,
‘Series Editors’ Foreword’, in S. Perera, Survival
Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka, Palgrave
MacMillan, 2016.
S. Mezzadra
– M. Bojadžijev, ‘“Refugee crisis” or crisis of European migration policies?’, Focaalblog, November 2015, http://www.focaalblog.com/2015/11/12/manuela-bojadzijev-and-sandro-mezzadra-refugee-crisis-or-crisis-of-european-migration-policies/
S. Mezzadra
– D. Sztulwark, ‘Political Anatomy of the South American Conjuncture: Images of
Development and New Social Conflict in the Present Period’, in Viewpoint, 2015, https://viewpointmag.com/2015/08/06/political-anatomy-of-the-south-american-conjuncture-images-of-development-and-new-social-conflict-in-the-present-period/
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, ‘Geography is not enough”, in Dialogues in Human Geography, 3 (2013),
3: 332-335 (response to a book review forum on Border as Method).
G. Garelli – M. Tazzioli, ‘Double Opening, Split
Temporality, and New Spatialities: an Interview with Sandro Mezzadra on
“Militant Research”’, in Postcolonial
Studies, 16 (2013), 3: 309-319.
S. Mezzadra, ‘The Multiplication of Labor. An Interview’,
in Viewpoint, 3, 2013, http://viewpointmag.com/2013/09/30/issue-3-workers-inquiry/
S. Cobarrubias, M. Casas Cortes, J. Pickles, ‘An
Interview with Sandro Mezzadra’, in Environment
and Planning D. Society and Space, 29 (2011), 4: 584-598.
SIGNED: Sandro Mezzadra
DATE: March 9, 2023
