Excavating the platform state: Geographies of ridehailing beyond corporate ‘disruption’
Teil der Sitzung
Sitzungstermin
Freitag (22. September 2023), 11:00–12:30
Sitzungsraum
SH 0.107
Autor*innen
Fabian Namberger (HCU Hamburg)
Kurzbeschreibung
What is the state’s role within ongoing processes of platformisation? Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork on Uber in Toronto, this paper provides a first theoretical groundwork for a deeper understanding of the state’s variously active role in enabling the platformisation of urban space.
Schlagwörter
Abstract
What is the state’s role within ongoing processes of platformisation? Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork on Uber in Toronto, this paper provides a first theoretical groundwork for a deeper understanding of the state’s variously active role in enabling the platformisation of urban space.