TAGGED: cities (6)
2023-02-12
Jelke Bosma
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The (Rent) Gap between simplicity and complexity

In the inaugural edition of _Dialogues in Urban Research_, PhD candidate Jelke Bosma provides a short commentary on Elvin Wyly's "The moral rent gap."
The (Rent) Gap between simplicity and complexity
2022-04-03
Niels van Doorn
Jelke Bosma
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The Gentrification of Airbnb: Closing Rent Gaps Through the Professionalization of Hosting

In this article, we argue that it is analytically productive to think about the professionalization of hosting on Airbnb in terms of (commercial) gentrification. More precisely, we believe that...
The Gentrification of Airbnb: Closing Rent Gaps Through the Professionalization of Hosting
2021-12-13
Niels van Doorn
Eva Mos
Jelke Bosma
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Actually Existing Platformization: Embedding Platforms in Urban Spaces through Partnerships

Published in a special issue of **South Atlantic Quarterly**, this paper examines the partnership as a heterogeneous boundary resource that enables platforms to generate dependencies, become...
Actually Existing Platformization: Embedding Platforms in Urban Spaces through Partnerships
Forthcoming
Niels van Doorn
Eva Mos
Jelke Bosma
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Actually existing platformization: Embedding platforms in urban spaces through partnerships

In this paper, upcoming in a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, we examine the partnership as a heterogeneous boundary resource that enables platforms to generate dependencies, become...
Actually existing platformization: Embedding platforms in urban spaces through partnerships
2021-02-16
Jelke Bosma
research

Platformed professionalization: Labour, assets, and earning a livelihood through Airbnb

Based on fieldwork in Berlin, this paper tries to disentangle what 'professionalization' on Airbnb entails and who is able to take part in such processes.
Platformed professionalization: Labour, assets, and earning a livelihood through Airbnb
2020-07-27
Niels van Doorn
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At what price? Labour politics and calculative power struggles in on-demand food delivery

This article, part of the special issue of Work Organization, Labour & Globalisation on "The Algorithm and the City", asks what can be gained by making calculability a pivotal demand for wage...
At what price? Labour politics and calculative power struggles in on-demand food delivery