Curriculum Vitae
Luisa Rossini
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Luisa Rossini
Citation names
- Rossini, Luisa
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 3C1A-9E68-FE82
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6162-4894
Email addresses
- luisa.rossini@ics.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Portuguese | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) |
| German | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2016/02/25
Concluded
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Dottorato in Analisi, Rappresentazione e Pianificazione delle Risorse Territoriali Urbane e Storiche-Architettoniche e Artistiche
indirizzo in pianificazione urbana e territorliale (Doctor of Philosophy)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
"Conflicting citizenship and (re)active zones in urban areas: the cases of Rome and Berlin" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Very Good |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/09/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/08/01 - 2026/12/01 | Deliver sAfe and Social Housing
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium
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European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference paper |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/09/18 | Unlocking Public Assets for Cooperative Housing: Decommodification and Collective Control | Abitare collaborativo e inclusione sociale: riflessioni, evidenze e prospettive future
NOI Techpark Bolzano-Bozen (Bozen, Italy)
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| 2025/07/03 | Access to public assets for cooperative housing: comparing strategies of decommodification of housing | ENHR Grand Paris 2025: Affordable Housing in Greening Cities
Champs-sur-Marne, at Cité Descartes (Paris, France)
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| 2025/06/17 | TENANTS' STRUGGLES AS A NEW POLITICAL IDENTITY? Solidarity, resistance, and urban unionism in financialized housing markets | Contested Solidarities: Contentious Politics Between Resistance, Backlash and Change
Central European University, Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2025/03/21 | ACESSO A BENS PÚBLICOS PARA HABITAÇÃO COOPERATIVA | Novas Formas de Viver 2025 Construir comunidade
Évora, Salão Central Eborense (Evora, Portugal)
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| 2024/07/05 | How to build new barricades: limits and potentialities of Micro-Transnational Activism in the Lisbon & Barcelona housing struggle | 30th International Conference of Europeanists: "Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation, and Reaction"
Lyon University (Lyon, France)
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| 2024/04/17 | Reclaiming Public Spaces: Radical Alternatives to the Exclusionary Project of Rightsizing Policies | ISCTE Seminar on Social Movements and Political Action
ISCTE - University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2022/06/29 | Paper presented (L. Rossini, A. García Bernardos, M. A. Martínez) “The configuration of a multi-pronged housing movement in Barcelona” at the XIV Congreso Español de Sociología FES | Desigualidades, fronteras y resiliencia
Campus de Espinardo - Universidad de Murcia (Murcia, Spain)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/01 - 2025/12/19 | Reading group of the Urban Transition Hub that is part of SHIFT research group at ICS (2025/01/01 - 2025/12/30)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2024/12/01 - 2025/11/28 | Organization of the 5th edition of the Lisbon Early Career workshop in Urban Studies. Selectin of papers, enrollment of students,
mentoring and organizing tasks during the event (2025/11/26 - 2025/11/28)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2024/12/01 - 2025/06/18 | Organization of the joint conference between ESA Research Network 25 on Social Movements; ECPR Standing Group on Participation
and Mobilization and CES Research Network on Social Movements. (2025/06/16 - 2025/06/18)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Central European University Center for Academic Writing, Austria |
| 2024/12/01 - 2025 | Webinar Contested Solidarities: A Roundtable Discussion, joint event organized by the CES Social Movements Research Network
and the Social Movements & Political Action Seminar Series, Invited keynotes: Dr. Didem Türkoglu is an Assistant Professor
at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey; Nino Zhgenti (Oxford University); Pierre Monforte (Universitat Internacional
de Catalunya – International University of Catalunya).
(2025/03/13 - 2025/03/13)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal |
| 2023/11/08 - 2023/11/10 | Mentoring a group for the Lisbon-Early Career in Urban Studies in 2023 (2023/11/08 - 2023/11/10)
Workshop (Other)
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2023/02/05 - 2023/11/10 | Co-organizating the Lisbon-Early Career in Urban Studies in 2023 (2023/11/08 - 2023/11/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2022/02/04 - 2022/11/25 | Co-organizating the Lisbon-Early Career in Urban Studies in 2022 (2022/11/22 - 2022/11/25)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2021/11/29 - 2021/12/02 | Mentoring a group for the Lisbon Early-Career Workshop (2021/11/29 - 2021/12/02)
Workshop (Other)
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2021/06/09 - 2021/06/09 | Chair of the Webinar Housing in Europe: from financialization to mobilization organized by the Urban Transition Hub (for ICS-ULisboa).
Speakers: Manuel B. Aalbers (KU Leuven); Melissa García Lamarca (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); Sonia Arbaci (University
College London); Thomas Maloutas (Harokopio University of Athens) (2021/06/09 - 2021/06/09)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2021/04/04 - 2021/06/09 | Organizer of the webinar Housing Crisis and Social Mobilization in Times of COVID-19 organized by Urban Transition Hub (for
ICS-ULisboa). Speakers: Armin Kuhn (Left Parliamentarian Group in the German Bundestag and Stadt von Unten Berlin); Marco
Allegra (ICS-ULisboa, Urban Transitions Hub); Margherita Grazioli (GSSI and Blocchi Precari Metropolitani); Miguel Martinez
(University of Uppsala) (2021/06/09 - 2021/06/09)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022/06/27 - 2022/06/28 | Presenter of the paper (L. Rossini, A. García Bernardos, M. A. Martínez) “The configuration of a multi-pronged housing movement
in Barcelona” at The Struggle for Housing Justice Crises, Movements, Knowledge and Policy - Council for European Studies Social
Movements Research Network and Project HOPES Pre-conference
Conference
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The Struggle for Housing Justice Crises, Movements, Knowledge and Policy
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto de Telecomunicações ISCTE-IUL, Portugal |
| 2022/06/09 - 2022/06/09 | Presenter of the research project titled (L. Rossini, A. García Bernardos, M. A. Martínez) “Defending and claiming housing
rights in times of crisis: the relation between housing movements in Barcelona” (before titled “Housing crisis and social
mobilization in times of COVID-19) for the SHIFT seminaries at ICS-ULisboa
Seminar
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SHIFT seminars
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2021/04/19 - 2021/04/21 | Presenter of the paper “Squatting in Rome and its confrontation with the institutions” at the on-line Conference "Houses of
cards? The rules and institutions of housing illegality in Western countries
Conference
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The Rules and Institutions of Housing Illegality/Informality in Western Countries
Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research, United Kingdom
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| 2021/02/13 - 2021/02/13 | Keynote speaker for the topic “Squatting in Berlin: the history of a movement” at the Conference held for the eviction of
the historical feminist house project, Liebig34 in Berlin organized by the Goethe Institute
Symposium
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Liebigstraße 34 Berlin Eviction Story
Goethe Institut Berlin, Germany
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/11/30 - 2025/12/10 | Partecipazion e Conflitto (2035-6609) | University of Salento |
| 2025/09/25 - 2025/10/15 | Housing Policy Debate (2152-050X) | Taylor & Francis |
| 2024/02/01 - 2024/05/10 | IJURR (1468-2427) | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 2022/10/01 - 2022/11/15 | Housing Studies | |
| 2022/07/01 - 2022/08/01 | Cosmos The Centre on Social Movement Studies | |
| 2020/12/15 - 2021/01/15 | Radical Housing Journal |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/11/01 - 2026/11/01 | Chairing the Research Network on Social Movements for the Center of European Studies, organization of confernces and events,
management of the mailing list and relations with the Center of European Studies organization
President / Vice-president
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| 2022/11/25 - 2025/11/25 | Co-chair of the Council for European Studies network on Social Movements. I am organizing, selecting papers, creating panels
and coordinating the International conference held every yearas well as the pre-conference event. I am organizing web seminars
and coordinating the network webpage.
President / Vice-president
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Columbia University Council for European Studies, United States |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/11/26 - 2025/11/28 | THE LISBON EARLY-CAREER WORKSHOP IN URBAN STUDIES WHAT’S THE URBAN WORTH? REVALUING THE VALUE OF URBAN LIFE | ICS - Universtity of Lisbon |
| 2025/06/16 - 2025/06/18 | Contested Solidarities: Contentious Politics Between Resistance, Backlash and Change | Central European University, Vienna |
| 2024/07/01 - 2024/07/04 | Radical Europe: violence, emancipation & reaction - CES network Social Movements Conference | Sciences Po Lyon |
| 2022/12/20 - 2023/01/07 | Europe's past, present and future: utopias and dystopias - CES network Social Movements Conference | University of Iceland | Reykjavik, Iceland |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/01 - 2026/01/30 | Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest (2330-1392) | Berghahn Books |
| 2023/11 - 2024/03 | PlaNext | |
| 2022/02/05 - 2023/03/05 | Partecipazione e Conflitto (2035-6609) |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/09/01 - 2024/08/31 | Questão urbana e o lugar dos subalternos: reflexões sobre trabalho profissional e direito à moradia | Francine Helfreich Coutinho dos Santos |
| 2023/02/05 - 2023/04/05 | HoME – Housing precarity and health, Mobilizations and policies, Emotions and empowerment | Gabriele D'Adda |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/02/01 - 2025/02/01 | Co-Editor of the blog SHIFT (ICS-ULisboa research group) since | Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/09/21 - 2025/12/21 | Three months secondment for research field work for the participation to the Eurpean project DASH | |
| 2024/08/16 - 2024/12/16 | Three months secondment in Berlin for the Marie Curie Deliver sAfe and Social Housing (DASH) project that aims to promote sustainable and safe housing by generating new ideas and converting them into concrete housing products and services. My research will focus on practices of social innovation in housing and the institutionalization of forms of radical grassroots urbanism, particularly strategies related to the reclamation of public / private properties for affordable housing. | European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium |