D'OVIDIO MARIANNA

Marianna d'Ovidio, Phd in Urban Studies, is Associate Professor of Sociology of Environment and Territory at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is also Deputy Coordinator of the URBEUR doctoral programme in Urban Studies.

Her research focuses on contemporary urban transformations and on how they are shaped by the interplay between structural forces and individual and collective agency. Through empirical research on fashion, luxury, craft production, art and cultural practices, she investigates how urban actors navigate, negotiate and contest the dynamics of financialised capitalism, and with what implications for local development and the right to the city.

She was recently the scientific head of the research Milano Re-Mapped (coordinated by Pirelli HangarBicocca) funded by Fondazione Cariplo. She coordinated the research Streaming Culture (Mapping cultural production and consumption in pandemic times) funded by Fondazione Cariplo and the Milano-Bicocca unit within the CICERONE research funded by the European Community (Horizon 2020).

She is also co-editor in chief with Carl Grodach (Monash University) of the international journal City, Culture and Society 

She has published in international and Italian journals, including Space and Culture, Urban Studies, City, City Culture and Society, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Sociologia Urbana e Rurale, Sociologica, Territorio.