‘Making ends meet’ by renting homes to strangers

Goyette, Kiley

doi:10.1080/13604813.2021.1935777

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“…Com artigo de 2019, Piracha et al apresentam casos de racismo em plataformas digitais na Austrália, analisando os reflexos do neoliberalismo nesse processo -como a resistência à regulamentação e o controle da conduta civil através da reputação dos indivíduos (PIRACHA et al, 2019, p. 3-4) -, e indicam a distribuição desigual de recursos urbanos entre grupos raciais e étnicos devido a rearranjos espaciais estimulados pelas plataformas. Goyette (2021), por sua vez, compara o atual compartilhamento de imóveis com as hospedagens realizadas por mulheres na América do Norte, prática historicamente estabelecida como fonte de renda complementar e como resposta à crise da reprodução social na era industrial.…”

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“…A autora também relata como tais atividades são lidas como práticas de resistência por anfitriões negros, asiáticos e latinos, uma vez que, a partir delas, estes conseguem permanecer em suas casas, mesmo em frente a episódios de desemprego, remoções e aumento dos custos de vida (MEDVEDEVA, 2023, p. 11). Assim, Piracha et al (2019), Goyette (2021) e Medvedeva (2023) sinalizam em seus estudos como aspectos estruturais da sociedade capitalista, tais como as desigualdades racial e de gênero, têm se manifestado no contexto do capitalismo de plataforma e através da economia compartilhada.…”

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Airbnb como urbanismo de plataforma: aspectos gerais e caminhos para uma abordagem multiescalar

Cruvinel

2024

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This article presents aspects highlighted in scientific studies on Airbnb as an expression of “platform urbanism” and indicates processes that can be observed in socio-spatial and economic dynamics stimulated by short-term rentals worldwide, aiming to formulate paths for a multi-scalar investigation. To achieve this, the article is divided into three parts. In the first part, we analyze studies on Airbnb encompassing the concept of platform urbanism and indicating the main aspects they point out. In the second part, events related to Airbnb activities in five countries (United States, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and China) are presented, gathered from newspaper news. And in the third part, four processes related to these events are listed: the complexification of the real estate system; new flows defined by digital nomadism; new arrangements in the private sector; and the expansion of vacation rental companies according to pre-existing political and economic logics.

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Airbnb como urbanismo de plataforma: aspectos gerais e caminhos para uma abordagem multiescalar

Cruvinel

2024

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“…Airbnb curates a social infrastructure that enables users to participate discursively in the process of making "place", while nudging and directing them to reshape the city in its image (Törnberg and Uitermark 2020). Airbnb thereby expands commodification not only by expanding short-term rentals into residential parts of the city and into the "private" space of the home -but also by employing user data to mobilize placemaking to package urban communities as products for outsiders' consumption (Bialski 2017;Goyette 2021;O'Regan and Choe 2017;Stabrowski 2017). By examining this, the paper answers Sadowski's (2020) call for research on how platforms produce spaces for extraction and enclosure: if we understand platforms as a contemporary "milieu of accumulation, of growth, of commodities, of money, of capital" (Lefebvre 1991, p. 129), then we should seek to examine how they undertake the production of productive space.…”

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Platform placemaking and the digital urban culture of Airbnbification

Törnberg

2022

Urban Transform

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This paper develops the notion of “platform placemaking”, describing how platforms mobilize user data to remake urban spatial imaginaries in their interests. Using Airbnb as a case, the paper studies the digital urban culture of “Airbnbification” – examining how Airbnb’s reviews and descriptions become part of reshaping urban place, while contributing to the place alienation of long-term residents. Airbnb feeds a surge in urban tourists on the hunt for “real urban experiences”: off-the-beaten-track, everyday and mundane urban life, seen as representing something “real” and “authentic”. This paper situates Airbnb in the literature on postmodern consumption, and examines the way hosts and guests on Airbnb stage, perform and construct cosmopolitanism and “authentic” urban place to cater to the values of new urban tourism. The paper introduces an approach to studying digital urban culture through platform data, using computational discourse analysis to examine Airbnb in New York City. By linking narratives in reviews and neighborhood descriptions to census data, we examine how authenticity and cosmopolitanism is staged and marketed. The paper argues that Airbnb serves to promote a value system that devalues the cultural and spatial capital of long-term residents, implying that the new tourists’ cosmopolitan longing to belong may thus come at the cost of the locals’ own sense of belonging. The platform placemaking of Airbnb thus emphasizes urban place as a consumption experience, while depressing other ways of experiencing the city.

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“…The dominance of women on platforms that require them to perform care work is further evident in the use of the short-term-rental platform such as Airbnb. 14 Goyette (2019) argues that it is not surprising that women are drawn to short-term rental platforms, as these platforms rely on classic forms of domestic labour-both physical kinds, such as cleaning and laundry, and intangible kinds, such as emotional labour of hospitality (Goyette, 2019).…”

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“…Historically women have often supplemented their household income through renting (Bates, 2006;Goyette, 2019), particularly during times of industrial restructuring when spouses may have lost jobs as a result of downsizing or business closures (Bates, 2006). The prominence of using care-oriented platforms while working from home is concerning as rural scholars have revealed that, when rural women cope by increasing their paid work or informal work in the home as a result of economic restructurings, they tend to experience an intensification of their unpaid domestic work (Bates, 2006;Mackenzie, 1987).…”

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The Fault Lines of Internet-enabled Work in Rural Atlantic Canada: Putting Gender and Class in Place.

Bowen

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Forms of internet-enabled work, telework, and digital work, are often imagined and promoted to allow "work from anywhere," and that place is no longer relevant; but this study of internet-enabled work in rural Atlantic Canada shows that geographical place and individuals' relationship to it matter in terms of why rural workers are involved, how they access opportunities, and the impacts on their work and households. Twenty-eight participants from rural communities completed a questionnaire and participated in semi-structured interviews. I apply a grounded theory approach to the analysis and employ an inductive process, staying close to the data to develop findings grounded in time and place. The findings reveal that the length of time in rural communities impacts involvement, as residents with skills and experiences gained in urban areas are involved at a higher rate and can gain access to opportunities far from their communities without incurring material or labour costs over long-term residents. Rural women are more involved than rural men because of interrelated mechanisms of occupational segregation, spatial division of labour, and rural work cultures. Rural women are also pushed into the forms of work as a strategy to overcome material conditions and rural employment contexts. A portion of rural women are also actively engaging in internet-enabled work in addition to other paid forms of work, which puts them in a situation where the spheres of work and home are acute, as they must manage the conflicts between employers in addition to their domestic work and other care responsibilities. Rural women with children and long-term rural women are disadvantaged in enacting strategies to minimize negative impacts. The thesis fills a gap as it focuses on rural contexts rather than the urban environments that dominate the literature. It also furthers scholarship initiated by scholars on the gendering of rural digital work

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‘Making ends meet’ by renting homes to strangers

Cited by 13 publications

References 97 publications

Airbnb como urbanismo de plataforma: aspectos gerais e caminhos para uma abordagem multiescalar

Airbnb como urbanismo de plataforma: aspectos gerais e caminhos para uma abordagem multiescalar

Platform placemaking and the digital urban culture of Airbnbification

The Fault Lines of Internet-enabled Work in Rural Atlantic Canada: Putting Gender and Class in Place.

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