Carlo Genova

Carlo Genova is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture at the University of Turin, and a member of the Teaching College of the PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the University of Turin-Milan. In recent years he has been a visiting fellow at Bournemouth University, Brunel University London, Technische Universität Berlin, Universitet u Beogradu, GEMASS Université Paris Sorbonne/CNRS. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal for the Sociology of Leisure, of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Youth Studies, and of the Topical Advisory Panel of the journal Sustainability. His main fields of empirical research are youth cultures in urban space, youth political activism, food consumption and sustainability. His theoretical interests mainly focus on lifestyles and subcultures, social analysis of space and material culture, interpretative sociology. He published on these topics in several international journals, among which Sustainability, Partecipazione e conflitto, Space and Culture, Leisure Studies, Societies, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Italian Sociological Review, Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion.