Principal Investigator: Professor Sandro Mezzadra

Department: Department of Political Science

Key areas of expertise / interest: citizenship, mobility and migration; history of European political theory.

Summary: Sandro Mezzadra studied Philosophy and Political Science at the Universities of Genoa and Bologna. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Turin in 1993. He was a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, of the Max Planck Gesellschaft für Rechtsgeschichte, and a visiting researcher at Duke University, at Goldsmiths (University of London) and is currently eminent research fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research (University of Western Sydney).
As assistant professor of “History of Political Theories” since 1999, and as associate professor since 2007 he teaches Contemporary Political Theory and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Bologna (Faculty of Political Sciences). Since 1999 he has taught European History in a masters course organized by the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires. He is in charge of the internationalization process at the Department of Politics, Institutions and History.
His research interests have been focused for many years on the history of political, legal, and social sciences in Germany between the 19th and the 20th century. In recent years he has worked especially on the subject of citizenship, both from an historical standpoint and focusing on contemporary discussions. He has explored the relation between citizenship, migration, and globalization in a series of essays that have been translated in several languages and have been widely discussed at an international level. He has also played an important role in introducing postcolonial criticism in Italy.
He is member of the editorial board of a number of Italian and international journals including «Filosofia politica», «Scienza & Politica», «Studi culturali», «Multitude», «Subjectivities» and «Historical Materialism».

Publications
S. Mezzadra, La costituzione del sociale. Il pensiero politico e giuridico di Hugo Preuss, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999.

S. Mezzadra – A. Petrillo (editors), I confini della globalizzazione. Lavoro, culture, cittadinanza, Roma, Manifestolibri, 2000.

S. Mezzadra, “Citizenship. Displacements and Crisis of a Concept between Post-War and Globalization”, in S. Hänninen – J. Vähämäki (Editors), Displacements of Politics, Jyväskylä (Finland), SoPhi, 2000, pp. 160-168.

S. Mezzadra, “Migration – Kapitalismus – Nation. Der junge Max Weber zur Lage der Landarbeiter im ostelbischen Preußen”, in Associations, IV (2000), 2, pp. 283-301.
S. Mezzadra, Diritto di fuga. Migrazioni, cittadinanza, globalizzazione, Verona, ombre corte, 2001, second enlarged editino 2006 (Spanish translation Derecho de fuga. Migraciones, ciudadanía y globalización, Madrid, Traficantes de sueños, 2005).

S. Mezzadra – A. Dal Lago, “I confini impensati dell’Europa”, in H. Friese – A. Negri – P. Wagner (editors), Europa politica. Ragioni di una necessità, Roma, Manifestolibri, 2002, pp. 143-157 (French translation, “Les frontiéres impensées de l’Europe”, in Lignes, n.s., 13, février 2004, pp. 67-80).

T.H. Marshall, Cittadinanza e classe sociale, ed. by S. Mezzadra, Roma – Bari, Laterza, 2002.

R. Guha – G.Ch. Spivak, Subaltern Studies. Modernità e (post)colonialismo, ed. by S. Mezzadra, Verona, Ombre corte, 2002.

S. Mezzadra (editor), “Genealogie multiculturali. Storia e critica”, in Contemporanea, VI (2003), 1, pp. 127-165.

S. Mezzadra – E. Rigo, "L’Europa dei migranti", in G. Bronzini - H. Friese – A. Negri – P. Wagner (a c. di), Europa, Costituzione e movimenti sociali, Roma, Manifestolibri, 2003, pp. 213-230.

S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson, “Né qui, né altrove — Migration, Detention, Desertion: A Dialogue”, in Borderlands, e-journal Volume 2 Number 1, 2003
(http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/issues/vol2no1.html)

S. Mezzadra, “Nach dem Kolonialismus. Migration, Bürgerrechte, Globalisierung”, in Th. Atzert – J. Müller (Editors), Immaterielle Arbeit und imperiale Souveränität. Analysen und Diskussionen zu Empire, Münster, Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2004, pp. 218-234.

S. Mezzadra, “The Right to Escape”, in Ephemera, IV (2004), 3, pp. 267-275 (available online at www.ephemeraweb.org).

S. Mezzadra (editor), Cittadinanza. Soggetti, ordine, diritto, Bologna, Clueb, 2004.

S. Mezzadra (editor), I confini della libertà. Per un’analisi politica delle migrazioni contemporanee, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2004.

S. Mezzadra, "Capitalisme, Migration et luttes sociales. Notes préliminaires pour une théorie de l’autonomie des migrations", in «Multitudes», 19, dicembre 2004, pp. 17-30.

S. Mezzadra – F. Ferraresi, "De la communauté d’intérêts à la lutte de classe. «Constitution du travail» et migrations dans les écrits de Max Weber sur les travailleurs agricoles", in «Multitudes», 19, dicembre 2004, pp. 103-118

M. Weber, Dalla terra alla fabbrica. Scritti sui lavoratori agricoli e lo Stato nazionale, ed. by F. Ferraresi and S. Mezzadra, Roma – Bari, Laterza, 2005.

S. Mezzadra – F. Rahola, "The Postcolonial Condition. A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present", in Postcolonial Text, II (2006), online available at http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/pocol/index.php.

S. Mezzadra, “Temps historique et sémantique politique dans la critique postcoloniale”, in Multitudes, 26, Automne 2006, pp 75-93.

S. Mezzadra, “Etienne Balibar y la autocritica de Europa”, in El Rodaballo. Revista de politica y cultura, Año XII, n. 16, verano 2006, pp. 76-78.

S. Mezzadra – E. 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, pp. 10-30.

P. Chatterjee, Oltre la cittadinanza. La politica dei governati, ed. By Sandro Mezzadra, Roma, Meltemi, 2006.

S. Mezzadra, “Kapitalismus, Migrationen und soziale Kämpfe. Vorbemerkungen zu einer Theorie der Autonomie der Migration”, in Empire und die biopolitische Wende, hrsg. von Marianne Piper, Thomas Atzert, Serhat Karakayali, Vassilis Tsianos, Frankfurt a.M., Campus 2007, pp. 179-193.