Francesca Recchia

Francesca Recchia (1975) is a researcher and lecturer. She is currently teaching Sociology at the University of Kurdistan – Hawler and has lectured internationally (London, Karachi, Ramallah, Rotterdam among other places). Her work intersects the fields of Social, Postcolonial, Visual and Urban Studies with a particular attention to the geo-political dimension of cultural process. She deals with questions of ethics, migration, social conflicts, cultural translation, creative responsiveness and urban transformation. She collaborates with the interdisciplinary research groups of Multiplicity and Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade and has contributed to various journals and magazines such as Abitare, Domus, Africa e Mediterraneo.