Lidia K.C. Manzo has a Ph.D. in Sociology (April 2014, the University of Trento) and holds a MA in Political and Social Communication (March 2009, the University of Milan) where she performed urban research and a documentary on Milan’s Chinatown. He
...MoreLidia K.C. Manzo has a Ph.D. in Sociology (April 2014, the University of Trento) and holds a MA in Political and Social Communication (March 2009, the University of Milan) where she performed urban research and a documentary on Milan’s Chinatown. Her ethnographic and visual work examines how the everyday co-productions of space and identity support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice. Dr. Manzo’s dissertation was focused on institutions, housing and lifestyles in the Super-gentrification process of Brooklyn’s Park Slope, whereby she has held a twenty-months long affiliation as Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the City University of New York. Currently, Manzo is Italian partner member in the international research project HOUWEL - Housing markets and welfare regimes - coordinated by Richard Ronald at the University of Amsterdam. Recent publications include: Gentrificación de sensibilidades. Política y estética en un barrio en transformación de la Ciudad de Nueva York (Quid 16, 2013), Desire for Diversity and Difference in Gentrified Brooklyn. Dialogue between a Planner and a Sociologist (Cambio, III, 6, 2013). Manzo first theoretical essay was published in Italian under the title «Il Quartiere: il nostro campo di gioco» Verso una sociologia ‘spazialista’ (Odoya, 2013). More info on: www.lidiakcmanzo.com
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