Urban entrepreneurialism 2.0 or the becoming south of the urban world

Rossi, Ugo; Wang, June

doi:10.1177/0308518x19899428

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“…Such shared mobility platforms are “spatially embedded” (Stehlin et al, 2020) and likely to provoke controversies over how to best inscribe qualities into existing market architectures in spatially confined realms. This geographically sensitive treatment of qualification is central given the growth of access-based markets that hinge on a requalification of objects, such as urban apartments in the market for short-term accommodation (Rossi and Wang, 2020).…”

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Mutable mobiles? Making space for an access-based car sharing market

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Kjellberg

2022

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How is space made to matter in contemporary access-based markets? Drawing on the geographies of marketization and constructivist market studies, we examine how space is framed as a relevant quality to take into account in market exchange and how that qualification process itself is spatially situated. We trace a failed attempt to create an access-based car market in Stockholm, involving parallel but poorly synchronized site-specific effects of marketization across public and private realms. Our findings show how DriveNow sought to render its envisioned market spatially homogenous and the spatial interdependencies between this envisioned market and other (market and nonmarket) uses of space. We highlight the performation struggles between such alternative but overlapping spatial demarcations in specific microgeographies and show how seemingly similar spatial imaginaries can be materialized in different ways in one spatial realm.

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Mutable mobiles? Making space for an access-based car sharing market

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Kjellberg

2022

Environ Plan A

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“…Informality, improvisation and survival struggles are certainly the majority experience of socalled 'urban entrepreneurialism 2.0' (Rossi and Wang 2020), but neoliberal urban imaginaries work with and against these latest realities of global platform capitalism. New forms of economic knowledge are figuring how apparently entrepreneurial, creative and socially innovative political economies are understood (Levenda and Tretter, 2020), something that is especially apparent as neoliberal urban governance seeks to configure relations between crowdfunding and cities.…”

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Crowdfunding cities: Social entrepreneurship, speculation and solidarity in Berlin

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“…In this sense, Airbnb is no longer only a home rental platform; it also becomes a platform for managing the labor required to rent out these homes. This affords property owners to outsource hosting labor, scale up their business and manage multiple STR apartments at a distance, while laborers have to resort to poorly renumerated and precarious type of informal, ‘improvised entrepreneurialism’ (Rossi and Wang, 2020).…”

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

Bosma

2022

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This paper analyses processes of professionalization on Airbnb in Berlin, exploring who is able to take part most successfully in urban value creation processes facilitated by short-term rental platforms. In doing so, it intervenes in debates on platform urbanism that focus on the role of digital platforms in reconfiguring urban governance and livelihoods. Combining a political economic approach and affordance theory, I conceptualize professionalization as a particular platform logic that benefits Airbnb and hosts who are able to take part, while reinforcing existing inequalities. Drawing on eight months of fieldwork in Berlin, I show how these professionalization practices differentially affect the strategies and practices of hosts, offering benefits to some while worsening the position of others who are unable or unwilling to professionalize. As such, professionalization processes produce inequalities and power asymmetries both on and off the platform, between hosts as well as between the platform owner and platform users. In a context where a growing number of city-dwellers rely on platforms to generate their livelihoods, such power shifts resulting from platform dynamics have a significant impact on who is able to benefit from platformization and thrive in a platform society.

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Urban entrepreneurialism 2.0 or the becoming south of the urban world

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

Mutable mobiles? Making space for an access-based car sharing market

Mutable mobiles? Making space for an access-based car sharing market

Crowdfunding cities: Social entrepreneurship, speculation and solidarity in Berlin

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

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