Nicola De Martini Ugolotti

Dr Nicola De Martini Ugolotti

  • u_ndemartiniugolotti at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Senior Lecturer In Sport
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Biography

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti is senior lecturer in Sport and Physical Culture at Bournemouth University, and member of Associazione Frantz Fanon in Turin, Italy. He completed his PhD in Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Bath, after a MSc in Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and several years of professional activity as a clinical psychologist with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. His interdisciplinary research focuses on leisure and expressive forms of physicality (from capoeira and parkour, to dance and music-making) as lenses to address the reciprocal constitution of bodies, spaces, power and subjectivities in contemporary contexts of (forced) migration, uneven urban changes, and social exclusion. Nicola is member of the editorial boards of the Leisure Studies and Sociology of Sport journals and his work has been published in journals/books across leisure, urban and migration studies, sociology of sport and cultural geography. Nicola is available to supervise postgraduate and doctoral students in the areas of:...

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Journal Articles

Books

Chapters

  • Collison, C. and De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2021. Pain and Faith: An Intersectional-Phenomenological Exploration of Syrian Muslim Refugee Women’s Experiences of Yoga and Resettlement in Sweden. In: Caudwell, J., ed. Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems. Routledge.
  • Collison, C. and De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2021. Pain, faith and yoga: An intersectional-phenomenological perspective on Syrian Muslim women's experiences of resettlement in Sweden. Leisure and Forced Migration Lives Lived in Asylum Systems. 121-138.
  • De Martini Ugolotti, N. and Caudwell, J., 2021. Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems (Introduction). Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems. Routledge.
  • De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2019. Corpi e città contese: studi culturali del corpo e trasformazioni urbane. In: Donato, A., Tonelli, L. and Galak, E., eds. Le Pieghe del Corpo. Mimesis.
  • De Martini Ugolotti, N., 2018. “No sleep'till Parco Dora”: Parkour ei paradossi di una città rigenerata, tra eterotopie e governo della differenza. In: Capello, C. and Semi, G., eds. Torino: Un profilo etnografico. Milano: Meltemi.

Conferences

Internet Publications

Invited Lectures

  • Migrant youth, leisure and urban citizenship, University of Turin, Italy, 10 Apr 2019 more
  • Embodying mobility, emplacing change, Università di Bologna, 20 Mar 2018 more
  • Geographies of the body: space, power, practice, Università di Bologna, 18 Feb 2018 more
  • (Post)Migrant Youth and the City, University of Amsterdam, 22 Sep 2016 more

Grants

  • Leisure and Forced Migration: Reframing Critical Analyses of Practices, Sociabilities and Lives Lived in the Asylum System (Leisure Studies Association. Maureen Harrington Fund, 10 Jan 2019). Completed
  • Climbing Walls, Making Bridges: Capoeira, Parkour and Children of Immigrants' Identity Negotiations in Turin's Public Spaces (University of Bath, 01 Oct 2018). Completed
  • "Here to Play": Exploring the Role of Leisure in Forced Migrants' Negotiations of Place, Belonging and Uncertainty in Post-Brexit Bristol. (Leisure Studies Association, 18 Dec 2017). Completed

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Post published on sociological dissemination website discover society (https://discoversociety.org) (08 Apr 2020)
  • Festival of Learning 2018, Public Talk. "Here to Play": forced migrants, music and belonging (20 Jun 2018-20 Jul 2018)

Conference Presentations

  • Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference 2019, Parkour, graffiti and the politics of (in)visibility in the leisure-oriented city, 09 Jul 2019, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland
  • Challenging Social Hierarchies and Inequalities, “Here to play”: Music-making and forced migrants' embodied practices of diasporic belonging, 24 Apr 2019, Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Mobilising Change: Creative and Critical Leisure Practices in the Post-Disciplinary Era, "Here to Play": Musicality, dance and forced migrants' negotiations of place, belonging and uncertainty in Bristol, 10 Jul 2018, University of Bath
  • 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Contested Bodies in a Regenerating City: Post-Migrant Youth's Disputed Leisure and Contingent Citizenship in Turin, 28 Aug 2017, Athens
  • Leisure Studies Association, Leeds, 4th-6th July 2017, Post-Migrant youth, parkour and the (contested) containment of difference in urban spaces of leisure, 04 Jul 2017, Leeds
  • From Contested Cities to Global Urban Justice, CONTESTED BODIES, CONTESTED CITIES: (POST)MIGRANT YOUTH, CONTINGENT CITIZENSHIP AND THE POLITICS OF CAPOEIRA AND PARKOUR IN TURIN, ITALY, 04 Jul 2016, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)

Qualifications

  • PhD in Physical Cultural Studies (University of Bath, Department of Health, 2016)
  • MSc in Medical Anthropology (University of Amsterdam, 2011)
  • BSc (Hons) in Clinical Psychology (University of Turin, Italy, 2007)

Honours

  • Research Excellence Visiting Scientist Award (University of Turin, Italy, 2019)

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