Spatiotemporal interference: theorizing the materiality of recursion from an archipelago of migrant encampments | By Irene Peano
The non-linearity of time and the non-sinchronicity of space are long-established themes of critical scholarship– yet how to keep such dimensions together remains in some ways a thorny question. In the migrant encampment archipelago of Italy’s agroindustrial enclaves, recursions of mobility containment- and its excesses- materialise in multiform landscapes of inhabitation, where several spatial projects with long genealogies overlap and fuse into one another. In this seminar, I mobilise the notion ofinterference to make sense ofthe ways in which spatial typologies and their temporalities are always contaminated, layered, and multidimensional.
Irene Peano (PhD, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge) is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and a Visiting Professor at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Turin Polytechnic. Her work has focused on different aspects of the nexus between labour (especially sexual and agricultural work) and migration across Italy, Nigeria and Eastern Europe by means of long-term engagement and solidarity as methods
The meeting is part of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab seminar series Spring 2026.
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab provides an infrastructure to facilitate a process of collective study around the shifting terrain and politics of inhabitation globally, and is directed by Michele Lancione and AbdouMaliq Simone.
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