Dr Milo Bettocchi is an LSE Fellow in Gender Studies as well as the course convenor for GI403: Gender and Media Representation.

Milo’s ESRC-funded doctoral research, completed at the University of Nottingham’s School of Geography, focused on squatting (occupying a building without the permission of the owner) in Brixton, south London. This research emphasised the ways in which squatting has intersected with anti-racist, decolonial, feminist and queer struggles and politics. More broadly, it documented spaces, histories, dynamics, political lineages and struggles which literature on social movements in England has overlooked; it interrogated and expanded how squatting in England has been conceptualised; and it spatialised the processes through which a range of identities, collectivities and political projects were assembled and negotiated.

Milo’s article ‘Affect, infrastructure and activism: The House of Brag's London Queer Social Centre in Brixton, South London’ was recently published in Emotion, Space and Society. He is also the editor of Speak Out! A Brixton Black Women’s Group Reader, forthcoming from Verso in Autumn 2023.

Previously a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the LSE’s Department of Gender Studies as well as a Demonstrator in Techniques in Human Geography at the University of Nottingham, Milo holds an MSc in Gender, Media and Culture from the LSE’s Department of Gender Studies, as well as a BA in Film Studies and Creative Writing from Kingston University, London.

Milo’s research interests include interdisciplinary methodologies, archival practices, lineages of queer theory and anti- and decolonial approaches to Gender Studies.