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
economic geography,
platform economy
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.