Transnational lives. Transnational bodies? An introduction

Niekrenz, Yvonne; Witte, Matthias D.; Albrecht, Lisa

doi:10.1080/21931674.2016.1182350

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“…The issue of urban belonging is addressed here by way of an examination of the socio-spatial logics of inclusion and exclusion in the Hub. This approach follows recent warnings by scholars of globalisation against understating the relevance of emplacement and embodiment in the study of transnational subjects (Conradson and Latham 2005;Dunn 2010;Niekrenz, Witte, and Albrecht 2016). Hence, my study takes the body as its primary scale of analysis, leading to the following reformulation of the question of belonging: what kinds of bodies and arrangements of bodies are desirable in the Hub?…”

Section: 創新立異與獨具設計感的聯合辦公空間無論是個人和公司都能在此交流mentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Encounters in Global Shanghai. On the Desirability of Bodies in a Coworking Space

Ishitsuka¹

2020

chinaperspectives

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N o . 2 0 2 0 / 3 • china perspectives Special feature china perspectives "合坐"一張桌子 "合作"一個項目 "合做"一個夢想 Our innovative and beautiful workspaces are home to a diverse community of companies and individuals who INTERACT COLLABORATE AND DO BUSINESS WITH ONE ANOTHERFounded by a white South African entrepreneur with his Hong Kongese architect wife, the Hub is a coworking space provider that has been operating in Shanghai since late 2015. 1 In April 2018, at the time of its acquisition by an American giant among the shared office providers, it already had 24 locations across Asia -15 in Shanghai alone, with the others in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Vietnam -and more than 10,000 members. 2 As indicated by the promotional material quoted above, the Hub's marketing strategy is to emphasise the collaborative dimension of the coworking experience: it attracts free-lancers, start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, and branches of multinational corporations not only by promising reduced costs, office service, flexibility, and a "fun" working environment, but also, and more importantly, by promoting itself as a platform that facilitates social interactions. 3 In other words, it claims to be, besides an office space, a cross-border community.

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Section: 創新立異與獨具設計感的聯合辦公空間無論是個人和公司都能在此交流mentioning

confidence: 99%