Platformization of Urban Life

Anke Struver

ISBN 10: 383765964X / ISBN 13: 9783837659641

Published by Transcript Verlag, DE, 2022

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The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Platformization of Urban Life
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag, DE
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383765964X
• ISBN 13: 9783837659641
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 425 grams

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Synopsis

The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.

About the Authors

Anke Strüver ist Professorin für Humangeographie an der Universität Graz. Sie lehrt und forscht zur wechselseitigen Konstitution von Gesellschaft und Raum auf der Mikroebene verkörperter Subjekte anhand verschiedener Themen kritischer Stadtforschung sowie zur Methodologie der Humangeographie.

Sybille Bauriedl (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1967, ist Professorin für Integrative Geographie an der Europa-Universität Flensburg. Sie lehrt und forscht zu sozial-ökologischer Transformation, feministischer Geographie, solidarischer Stadtentwicklung, Plattformökonomien, kolonialen Hafenstädten und Landnutzungskonflikten. Sie ist in der Hamburger Recht-auf-Stadt-Bewegung und im Netzwerk Flensburg Postkolonial aktiv.