Dr Giovanni Picker

  • Senior Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

Biography

I am currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Sociology. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology and Comparative Urban Studies from Milan-Bicocca University (2009), and a B.A. + M.A. (Laurea) in Political Sciences and Cultural Sociology from the State University of Milan (2004). 

Research interests

As an ethnographer interested in urban life, politics, the economy, and culture, I draw on combinations of ethnography and archival research to examine dominant logics and shared understandings of belonging, moral worth, incorporation, and exclusion. I am particularly interested in race as a logic of social organization, and the ways in which various forms of racism play out at the intersections of everyday life and urban politics.

Since 2003, I have empirically researched these social phenomena in a number of cities in Kosovo, Romania, Italy, France, the UK and Germany.

I also have co-edited six thematic collections focusing on the relationships between urban spaces, the state and everyday forms of domination, with the aim of critically broadening theoretical horizons and decentering typically Western-oriented perspectives. Two of the most recent jointly edited collections are the following:

  • European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism [Manchester University Press, 2022], edited with Noa K. Ha. A collection that organically rethinks European urban modernity by incorporating various combinations of global urban studies and postcolonial, decolonial and race critical theories from different historical perspectives.

My current book project develops a socio-historical framework to examine the diverse and often undiscussed racial aspects of 21st century European urban societies in order to more radically address social inequalities in Europe and beyond.

Related research interests

  • Ethnographic/Sociographic theory and writing styles
  • Anthropology of policy
  • Global and European histories of the Left 
  • Theory and history of Socialism and Postsocialism

Research groups

  • Sociology

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2006 | 2005
Number of items: 48.

2024

Picker, G. (2024) Urban revolutions: urbanisation and (neo-)colonialism in transatlantic context , by Stefan Kipfer, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2022, 324 pp., £112.00 (hbk), ISBN: 9789004524903. Ethnic and Racial Studies, (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2348719)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2024) Planning a European racial city: dealing (with) dread in 21st-Century Berlin. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (Accepted for Publication)

2022

Ha, N. K. and Picker, G. (Eds.) (2022) European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9781526158437

Ha, N. K. and Picker, G. (2022) Introduction: rethinking the European urban. In: Ha, N. K. and Picker, G. (eds.) European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 1-34. ISBN 9781526158437

2021

Ghebremariam Tesfau', M. and Picker, G. (2021) The Italian postracial archive. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(2), pp. 195-214. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1730924)

Murji, K. and Picker, G. (2021) Racist morbidities: a conjunctural analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic. European Societies, 23(sup1), S307-S320. (doi: 10.1080/14616696.2020.1825767)

2019

Murji, K. and Picker, G. (Eds.) (2019) Special Issue: Racial and Post-racial Senses of Place. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 39(11/12) [Edited Journal]

Murji, K. and Picker, G. (2019) Race and place. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 39(11/12), pp. 913-922. (doi: 10.1108/IJSSP-10-2019-0203)

Picker, G. (2019) Sovereignty beyond the state: exception and informality in a Western European city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 43(3), pp. 576-581. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12704)

Picker, G. , Murji, K. and Boatcă, M. (Eds.) (2019) Racial Urbanities: Toward A Global Cartography. Social Identities. [Edited Journal]

Picker, G. (2019) Anti-gitanismo, conocimiento racial y amnesia colonial. Sociología Histórica, 10(1), pp. 237-246.

Picker, G. , Murji, K. and Boatcă, M. (2019) Racial urbanities: towards a global cartography. Social Identities, 25(1), pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.1080/13504630.2017.1418606)

Picker, G. and Vivaldi, E. (2019) Racial segregation: camps for Roma and slums in Italy. In: Cortés Gómez, I. and End, M. (eds.) Dimensions of Antigypsyism in Europe. Series: ENAR Anti-Racism in Focus, 3. European Network Against Racism aisbl (ENAR) and the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma: Brussels, Belgium, pp. 180-197. ISBN 9782960130829

2018

Vincze, E., Petrovici, N., Raț, C. and Picker, G. (Eds.) (2018) Racialized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism. Series: Neighborhoods, communities and urban marginality. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783319762722

Picker, G. (2018) Conclusion: (re)centring labour, class, and race. In: Vincze, E., Petrovici, N., Raț, C. and Picker, G. (eds.) Radicalized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism. Series: Neighborhoods, communities and urban marginality. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 207-226. ISBN 9783319762722 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76273-9_8)

Picker, G. (2018) Kristina Graaf and Noa Ha (eds). 2015. Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Urbanities, 8(1), pp. 80-81. [Book Review]

2017

Picker, G. (2017) Social inclusion/exclusion. In: Turner, B. S., Chang, K.-s., Epstein, C. F., Kvisto, P., Ryan, J. M. and Outhwaite, W. (eds.) The Wiley Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Series: Wiley Blackwell encyclopedias in social sciences (2908). Wiley-Blackwell: West Sussex, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781118430866 (doi: 10.1002/9781118430873.est0532)

Picker, G. (2017) Post-socialist Europe and its “Constitutive Outside”: ethnographic resemblances for a comparative research agenda. In: Krase, J. and Uherek, Z. (eds.) Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders, and Migration. Series: Palgrave studies in urban anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 39-53. ISBN 9783319539515 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53952-2_3)

Pasquetti, S. and Picker, G. (Eds.) (2017) Confined Informality: Global Margins, Statecraft, and Urban Life. International Sociology. 32(4) [Edited Journal]

Pasquetti, S. and Picker, G. (2017) Urban informality and confinement: toward a relational framework. International Sociology, 32(4), pp. 532-544. (doi: 10.1177/0268580917701605)

Picker, G. (2017) Rethinking ethnographic comparison: two cities, five years, one ethnographer. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 46(3), pp. 263-284. (doi: 10.1177/0891241614548105)

Picker, G. (2017) Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe. Series: Routledge advances in sociology. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9781138808782

2016

Picker, G. (2016) ‘That neighbourhood is an ethnic bomb!’ The emergence of an urban governance apparatus in Western Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(2), pp. 136-148. (doi: 10.1177/0969776413502659)

Picker, G. (2016) Christopher D. Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth, and David W. Wong (eds), Social-spatial segregation. Concepts, processes and outcomes. Urban Research and Practice, 9(2), pp. 226-228. (doi: 10.1080/17535069.2016.1190511)[Book Review]

2015

Picker, G. and Pasquetti, S. (Eds.) (2015) Durable Camps: The State, the Urban, the Everyday. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 19(5) [Edited Journal]

Picker, G. (2015) Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Urban Studies, 52(9), pp. 1742-1745. (doi: 10.1177/0042098015580755)[Book Review]

Picker, G. , Greenfields, M. and Smith, D. (2015) Colonial refractions: the ‘Gypsy camp’ as a spatio-racial political technology. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 19(5), pp. 741-752. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071123)

Picker, G. and Pasquetti, S. (2015) Durable camps: the state, the urban, the everyday. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 19(5), pp. 681-688. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071122)

2014

Picker, G. (2014) Gypsies and Travellers in Housing: the Decline of Nomadism, by David Smith and Margaret Greenfields. Bristol: Policy Press, 2013. Roma Rights, 2014(1), pp. 113-114. [Book Review]

Picker, G. and Roccheggiani, G. (2014) Abnormalising minorities. The state and expert knowledge addressing the Roma in Italy. Identities, 21(2), pp. 185-201. (doi: 10.1080/1070289X.2013.854719)

2013

Picker, G. (2013) “Ţiganu-i ţigan”: verbal icons and urban marginality in a post-socialist European city. Civilisations, 62(1 & 2), pp. 51-70. (doi: 10.4000/civilisations.3271)

Picker, G. (2013) Policy logic and the spatial segregation of Roma in Europe. The cases of Florence and Cluj-Napoca. In: Zincone, G. and Ponzo, I. (eds.) How European Cities Craft Immigrant Integration: Something to Learn. Foundation for European Progressive Studies, pp. 40-57. ISBN 9788889988688

Picker, G. (2013) Sedentarisation and 'the right to nomadism': the urban and regional fabric of nomad camps in Italy (1967-1995). Zeitgeschichte, 40(5), pp. 276-286.

2012

Picker, G. (2012) La biopolitica della differenza. Un'antropologia delle politiche dei campi nomadi a Firenze. DADA Rivista di Antropologia post-globale, 2(2), pp. 93-110.

Picker, G. (2012) Racial Criminalization of Migrants in the 21st Century by Salvatore Palidda. Critical Sociology, 38(2), pp. 333-335. (doi: 10.1177/0896920511435762)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2012) Left-wing progress? Neo-nationalism and the case of Romany migrants in Italy. In: Stewart, M. (ed.) The Gypsy ‘Menace’: Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics. Hurst & Co.: London, pp. 81-94. ISBN 9781849042192

Picker, G. (2012) Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(4), pp. 780-781. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2011.639792)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2012) Territori postcoloniali ai limiti. I campi per rom in Italia e Francia tra doxa e storia. In: Ceva, E. and Galeotti, A. E. (eds.) Lo spazio del rispetto. Series: Ricerca. Bruno Mondadori: Milano, pp. 96-121. ISBN 9788861598126

2011

Picker, G. (2011) Rom e Sinti in Italia. Tra stereotipi e diritti negati, and Politiche possibili. Abitare le città con i Rom e i Sinti. Modern Italy, 16(3), pp. 398-401. (doi: 10.1080/13532944.2011.586546)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2011) Inclusione, esclusione, enclusione. Per un'etnografia della governance di rom migranti in Italia. In: Baldin, S. and Zago, M. (eds.) Il mosaico Rom: specificità culturali e governance multilivello. Series: Collana ISMU (46). Franco Angeli: Milano, pp. 77-87. ISBN 9788856844719

Picker, G. (2011) Nomads’ land? Political cultures and nationalist stances vis-à-vis Roma in Italy. In: Stewart, M. and Rövid, M. (eds.) Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Romany Studies. Central European University Press: Budapest, pp. 211-227. ISBN 9786155053160

Picker, G. (2011) Tra inclusione ed esclusione. Una storia sociale dell'educazione dei rom e dei sinti in Italia. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 16(5), pp. 735-737. (doi: 10.1080/1354571X.2011.622488)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2011) Welcome ‘in’. Left-wing Tuscany and Romani migrants (1987–2007). Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 16(5), pp. 607-620. (doi: 10.1080/1354571X.2011.622469)

2010

Picker, G. (2010) Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe. Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization and the Neoliberal Order. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(9), pp. 1677-1679. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2010.510902)[Book Review]

2009

Picker, G. (2009) Inclusionary Rhetoric / Exclusionary Practices. Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy. Davide Però, New York: Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-84545-157-8. Anthropology in Action, 16(3), pp. 69-70. (doi: 10.3167/aia.2009.160307)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2009) Inclusionary Rhetoric / Exclusionary Practices. Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy. Davide Però, New York: Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-84545-157-8. [Italian Translation]. Studi Emigrazione, XVII(3), pp. 56-57. [Book Review]

2006

Picker, G. (2006) Fieldwork between distance and intimacy: reflections on a photo exhibition on the streets. Achab: Rivista di Antropologia, 9, pp. 33-42.

2005

Picker, G. (2005) Le due rive di Mitrovica: il ponte sul fiume Ibar/Ibër come frontiera interna. Conflitti Globali(2), pp. 119-129.

This list was generated on Tue Dec 24 22:11:53 2024 GMT.
Number of items: 48.

Articles

Picker, G. (2024) Planning a European racial city: dealing (with) dread in 21st-Century Berlin. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (Accepted for Publication)

Ghebremariam Tesfau', M. and Picker, G. (2021) The Italian postracial archive. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(2), pp. 195-214. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1730924)

Murji, K. and Picker, G. (2021) Racist morbidities: a conjunctural analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic. European Societies, 23(sup1), S307-S320. (doi: 10.1080/14616696.2020.1825767)

Murji, K. and Picker, G. (2019) Race and place. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 39(11/12), pp. 913-922. (doi: 10.1108/IJSSP-10-2019-0203)

Picker, G. (2019) Sovereignty beyond the state: exception and informality in a Western European city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 43(3), pp. 576-581. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12704)

Picker, G. (2019) Anti-gitanismo, conocimiento racial y amnesia colonial. Sociología Histórica, 10(1), pp. 237-246.

Picker, G. , Murji, K. and Boatcă, M. (2019) Racial urbanities: towards a global cartography. Social Identities, 25(1), pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.1080/13504630.2017.1418606)

Pasquetti, S. and Picker, G. (2017) Urban informality and confinement: toward a relational framework. International Sociology, 32(4), pp. 532-544. (doi: 10.1177/0268580917701605)

Picker, G. (2017) Rethinking ethnographic comparison: two cities, five years, one ethnographer. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 46(3), pp. 263-284. (doi: 10.1177/0891241614548105)

Picker, G. (2016) ‘That neighbourhood is an ethnic bomb!’ The emergence of an urban governance apparatus in Western Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(2), pp. 136-148. (doi: 10.1177/0969776413502659)

Picker, G. , Greenfields, M. and Smith, D. (2015) Colonial refractions: the ‘Gypsy camp’ as a spatio-racial political technology. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 19(5), pp. 741-752. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071123)

Picker, G. and Pasquetti, S. (2015) Durable camps: the state, the urban, the everyday. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 19(5), pp. 681-688. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071122)

Picker, G. and Roccheggiani, G. (2014) Abnormalising minorities. The state and expert knowledge addressing the Roma in Italy. Identities, 21(2), pp. 185-201. (doi: 10.1080/1070289X.2013.854719)

Picker, G. (2013) “Ţiganu-i ţigan”: verbal icons and urban marginality in a post-socialist European city. Civilisations, 62(1 & 2), pp. 51-70. (doi: 10.4000/civilisations.3271)

Picker, G. (2013) Sedentarisation and 'the right to nomadism': the urban and regional fabric of nomad camps in Italy (1967-1995). Zeitgeschichte, 40(5), pp. 276-286.

Picker, G. (2012) La biopolitica della differenza. Un'antropologia delle politiche dei campi nomadi a Firenze. DADA Rivista di Antropologia post-globale, 2(2), pp. 93-110.

Picker, G. (2011) Welcome ‘in’. Left-wing Tuscany and Romani migrants (1987–2007). Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 16(5), pp. 607-620. (doi: 10.1080/1354571X.2011.622469)

Picker, G. (2006) Fieldwork between distance and intimacy: reflections on a photo exhibition on the streets. Achab: Rivista di Antropologia, 9, pp. 33-42.

Picker, G. (2005) Le due rive di Mitrovica: il ponte sul fiume Ibar/Ibër come frontiera interna. Conflitti Globali(2), pp. 119-129.

Books

Picker, G. (2017) Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe. Series: Routledge advances in sociology. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9781138808782

Book Sections

Ha, N. K. and Picker, G. (2022) Introduction: rethinking the European urban. In: Ha, N. K. and Picker, G. (eds.) European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 1-34. ISBN 9781526158437

Picker, G. and Vivaldi, E. (2019) Racial segregation: camps for Roma and slums in Italy. In: Cortés Gómez, I. and End, M. (eds.) Dimensions of Antigypsyism in Europe. Series: ENAR Anti-Racism in Focus, 3. European Network Against Racism aisbl (ENAR) and the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma: Brussels, Belgium, pp. 180-197. ISBN 9782960130829

Picker, G. (2018) Conclusion: (re)centring labour, class, and race. In: Vincze, E., Petrovici, N., Raț, C. and Picker, G. (eds.) Radicalized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism. Series: Neighborhoods, communities and urban marginality. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 207-226. ISBN 9783319762722 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76273-9_8)

Picker, G. (2017) Social inclusion/exclusion. In: Turner, B. S., Chang, K.-s., Epstein, C. F., Kvisto, P., Ryan, J. M. and Outhwaite, W. (eds.) The Wiley Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Series: Wiley Blackwell encyclopedias in social sciences (2908). Wiley-Blackwell: West Sussex, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781118430866 (doi: 10.1002/9781118430873.est0532)

Picker, G. (2017) Post-socialist Europe and its “Constitutive Outside”: ethnographic resemblances for a comparative research agenda. In: Krase, J. and Uherek, Z. (eds.) Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders, and Migration. Series: Palgrave studies in urban anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 39-53. ISBN 9783319539515 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53952-2_3)

Picker, G. (2013) Policy logic and the spatial segregation of Roma in Europe. The cases of Florence and Cluj-Napoca. In: Zincone, G. and Ponzo, I. (eds.) How European Cities Craft Immigrant Integration: Something to Learn. Foundation for European Progressive Studies, pp. 40-57. ISBN 9788889988688

Picker, G. (2012) Left-wing progress? Neo-nationalism and the case of Romany migrants in Italy. In: Stewart, M. (ed.) The Gypsy ‘Menace’: Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics. Hurst & Co.: London, pp. 81-94. ISBN 9781849042192

Picker, G. (2012) Territori postcoloniali ai limiti. I campi per rom in Italia e Francia tra doxa e storia. In: Ceva, E. and Galeotti, A. E. (eds.) Lo spazio del rispetto. Series: Ricerca. Bruno Mondadori: Milano, pp. 96-121. ISBN 9788861598126

Picker, G. (2011) Inclusione, esclusione, enclusione. Per un'etnografia della governance di rom migranti in Italia. In: Baldin, S. and Zago, M. (eds.) Il mosaico Rom: specificità culturali e governance multilivello. Series: Collana ISMU (46). Franco Angeli: Milano, pp. 77-87. ISBN 9788856844719

Picker, G. (2011) Nomads’ land? Political cultures and nationalist stances vis-à-vis Roma in Italy. In: Stewart, M. and Rövid, M. (eds.) Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Romany Studies. Central European University Press: Budapest, pp. 211-227. ISBN 9786155053160

Book Reviews

Picker, G. (2024) Urban revolutions: urbanisation and (neo-)colonialism in transatlantic context , by Stefan Kipfer, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2022, 324 pp., £112.00 (hbk), ISBN: 9789004524903. Ethnic and Racial Studies, (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2348719)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2018) Kristina Graaf and Noa Ha (eds). 2015. Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Urbanities, 8(1), pp. 80-81. [Book Review]

Picker, G. (2016) Christopher D. Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth, and David W. Wong (eds), Social-spatial segregation. Concepts, processes and outcomes. Urban Research and Practice, 9(2), pp. 226-228. (doi: 10.1080/17535069.2016.1190511)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2015) Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Urban Studies, 52(9), pp. 1742-1745. (doi: 10.1177/0042098015580755)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2014) Gypsies and Travellers in Housing: the Decline of Nomadism, by David Smith and Margaret Greenfields. Bristol: Policy Press, 2013. Roma Rights, 2014(1), pp. 113-114. [Book Review]

Picker, G. (2012) Racial Criminalization of Migrants in the 21st Century by Salvatore Palidda. Critical Sociology, 38(2), pp. 333-335. (doi: 10.1177/0896920511435762)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2012) Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(4), pp. 780-781. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2011.639792)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2011) Rom e Sinti in Italia. Tra stereotipi e diritti negati, and Politiche possibili. Abitare le città con i Rom e i Sinti. Modern Italy, 16(3), pp. 398-401. (doi: 10.1080/13532944.2011.586546)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2011) Tra inclusione ed esclusione. Una storia sociale dell'educazione dei rom e dei sinti in Italia. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 16(5), pp. 735-737. (doi: 10.1080/1354571X.2011.622488)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2010) Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe. Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization and the Neoliberal Order. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(9), pp. 1677-1679. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2010.510902)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2009) Inclusionary Rhetoric / Exclusionary Practices. Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy. Davide Però, New York: Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-84545-157-8. Anthropology in Action, 16(3), pp. 69-70. (doi: 10.3167/aia.2009.160307)[Book Review]

Picker, G. (2009) Inclusionary Rhetoric / Exclusionary Practices. Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy. Davide Però, New York: Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-84545-157-8. [Italian Translation]. Studi Emigrazione, XVII(3), pp. 56-57. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Ha, N. K. and Picker, G. (Eds.) (2022) European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9781526158437

Vincze, E., Petrovici, N., Raț, C. and Picker, G. (Eds.) (2018) Racialized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism. Series: Neighborhoods, communities and urban marginality. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783319762722

Edited Journals

Murji, K. and Picker, G. (Eds.) (2019) Special Issue: Racial and Post-racial Senses of Place. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 39(11/12) [Edited Journal]

Picker, G. , Murji, K. and Boatcă, M. (Eds.) (2019) Racial Urbanities: Toward A Global Cartography. Social Identities. [Edited Journal]

Pasquetti, S. and Picker, G. (Eds.) (2017) Confined Informality: Global Margins, Statecraft, and Urban Life. International Sociology. 32(4) [Edited Journal]

Picker, G. and Pasquetti, S. (Eds.) (2015) Durable Camps: The State, the Urban, the Everyday. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 19(5) [Edited Journal]

This list was generated on Tue Dec 24 22:11:53 2024 GMT.

Supervision

I am interested in connecting with students who are considering pursuing doctoral studies looking at any aspects of social inequalities, particularly with an urban focus which acknowledges the relevance of race and racism.

I am currently supervising the following PhD students:

Chase Beecroft - Race Critical Theories

Leslie Molina - The Racial State and Migration in the US and the UK

Rohit Rao - Race, Schooling and Education

Concetta Smedile (University of Cordoba) - Anti-Roma Racism and Romani Activism in Sicily

Nichelle Santagata - Black Women's Mental Health and Healing

Haritha Venu - Transformation and Climate Crisis in Kerala

  • Santagata, Nichelle
    Mental Healthcare System Disparities: Black Communities Within the United Kingdom

Teaching

2024-2025

Global Inequalities (BA) Contributor - Semester 1

Ethno-graphing Race and Racism (BA) - Semester 1

Critique and Criticism (PhD) - Semester 2

Racial Justice and the City (MA) - Semester 2

Additional information

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I am one of the regional liaisons (Central and Eastern Europe and Russia) of the Black Europe Summer School. For any information on the Summer School, feel free to email me. All details here, blackeurope.org.

More information on my work is available on my website.