Alioscia Castronovo

Alioscia Castronovo is an anthropologist and actually postdoctoral fellow (2024-2026) at Padua University, Italy, and PI of the STARS Starting Grants Project ““Popular economies in Latin America: urban territories and self organization in Colombia”. He gained a Phd in Urban Studies at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and Social Anthropology at IDAES UNSAM, Argentina, with an ethnographic thesis on self-management of labor and socio-spatial conflicts, with Veronica Gago and Carlo Cellamare as supervisors, and developed his fieldwork with recuperated factories and popular economies cooperatives in Buenos Aires, where he lived seven years and participated to several research programs. After that, he has been lecturer at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, Department of Political and Social Sciences, and coordinates with Verónica Gago and Cristina Cielo the Superior Degree of Popular and Feminist Economies at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO; he also coordinated two Collective Research Projects at the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory (on Popular Economies and Planetary Commune).

He is member of the International Advisory Board of the Network Revaluing Care in the Global Economy, of CESE – Center of Social Studies of Economy, Argentina, of the International Workers’ Economy Network and the Latin American CLACSO Research Group “Popular Economies: mapping theory and practices” (2016-2025), where he is facilitator and manages website, social networks and multimedia communication. He published several articles in italian, spanish and english on scientific international reviews, such as South Atlantic Quarterly (where he also co-edited an Against the Day dossier on the popular uprising in Colombia), Public Culture, Tracce Urbane, Revista Iconos, ACME, Scienze del Territorio and Quaderni di Urbanistica. His first book “Territories of the Common” will be published by Lettera22 Edizioni in Italy. He was involved for several years into independent communication, as coordinator of student’s movement media, radio programs and podcasts; since 2012 he is editor of the italian independent media Dinamopress – has been member of the editorial board of the Journal DinamoPrint – and collaborates with independent media in Europe and Latin America.