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Place and Date of birth Milano – Italy, September 16, 1947
Actual position Professor of Sociology – University of Milano-Bicocca, Dean of Faculty of Sociology – University of Milano-Bicocca;
Addresses University: Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 MILANO- ITALY
Office: Fondazione Bignaschi, Via Olmetto 3, 20123 MILANO - ITALY
Tel (39) 02-64487512 / (39) 02-8057718
Fax (39) 02-8692565
E-mail: enzo.mingione@unimib.it


Education

1970 Doctor degree in Law from the University of Milan, thesis in Sociology on "Class struggles and the theory of social conflict in contemporary sociological thinking 


Academic Career

1970-1973 Research and teaching fellow, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Milan, General Sociology and Urban Sociology.
1973-1989 Associate Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Messina, Sicily.
1974-1975 Teaching Fellow in Urban Sociology and Urban History, Centre for Urban Studies, University College, London, UK.
1989-1990 Associate Professor of Sociology of Organization, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Milan.
1990-1993 Full Professor of Urban Sociology and Director of the Department of Theory and Analysis of Social and Political Phenomena, University of Messina.
1994 Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Sociology.
1994-1999 Full Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padova and Director of the Department of Sociology, University of Padova.
1999-2004 Full Professor of Sociology and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca.
2004-now Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca


Research activities

1995-1997 Vice-President of the Italian Sociological Association
1995-1999 Coordinator of the subproject on Social Exclusion of the Project of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) "Governance and Economic Development".
1996-1998 Coordinator of the Italian part of the EU Project ESOPO (The Evaluation of Social Policies against Social Exclusion at the Local Urban Level).
1996-1998 Member of the EU Experts Group on "Future of Work and Perspectives of Labour Law in the context of Social Regulation".
1996-2000 Co-Director (with Francesca Zajczyk and Yuri Kazepov) of the Longitudinal Observatory on Poverty in Milan.
1997-1999 Coordinator of the Italian part of the EU SEDEC Network "Social exclusion and the Development of European Citizenship.
1999-2002 Member of the Italian Team of the Network "Working on the Fringes: Immigrant Businesses, Economic Integration and Informal Practices", EU Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme.
2000-2003 Coordinator of the Italian part of the EU Project UGIS (Urban Development Programmes, Urban Governance, Social Inclusion & Sustainability).
2002-now

2001/2002-now

Coordinator of the EU Research Training Network URBEUROPE (Urban Europe Between Identity and Change).

Coordinator of the European Doctorate Urbeur "Urban and Local European Studies", University of Milano-Bicocca.


Main Publications

1981 Social Conflict and the City, Oxford: Blackwell.
1985 "Introduction" and editing with Nanneke Redclift, Beyond Employment, Oxford: Blackwell.
1991 Fragmented Societies: A Sociology of Economic Life beyond the Market Paradigm, Oxford: Blackwell.
1994 La cittadinanza spezzata,  Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore, with Yuri Kazepov.
1996 Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell.
1998 Sociologia della Vita Economica, Roma: Carocci.
1998 "Fragmentation et exclusion: la question sociale dans la phase actuelle de transition des villes dans les sociétés industrilles avancées", in Sociologie et Sociétés, Vol.III, n°1, Spring, p. 69-83.
1999 Le sfide dell’esclusione: metodi, luoghi, soggetti (Eds), Bologna: Il Mulino.
1999 "Introduction: Immigrants and the Informal Economy in European Cities", In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, pp.209-211.
2000 "Market and Society: The Social Embeddedment of the Economy", In E. Shragge e J.M. Fontan (Eds), Social Economy. International Debates and Perspectives, Montréal: Black Rose Books, pp.16-35.
2001

“Labour Market Segmentation and Informal Work” in H. Gibson (ed), Economic Transformation. Democratization and Integration into the European Union, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, pp.149-192.

2001

“The Southern European Welfare Model and the Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion” in Tolba M.K. (ed.) Our Fragile World. Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development, Oxford: EOLSS Publisherspp.1041-1051.

2001 “Social Polarisation: the Struggle Against Urban Social Exclusion” in People, Cities and the New Information Economy, Materials from an International Conference in Helsinki, 14-15 December 2000, Helsinki: Palmenia-kustannus, pp.122-127.
2002 Il Lavoro, with Enrico Pugliese, Roma: Carocci

 

 

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