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DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12788 |
Forefronts of the Sharing Economy: Uber in Cape Town | |
Pollio, Andrea | |
2019-07-01 | |
发表期刊 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH |
ISSN | 0309-1317 |
EISSN | 1468-2427 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 43期号:4页码:760-775 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Australia |
英文摘要 | The sharing economy, often phrased as 'platform capitalism', enables firms such as Uber and Airbnb to monetize, through specific technologies of mediation, the networks, the assets and the precarious labour of those who are described as 'the entrepreneurs of sharing'. This article explores the urban geographies of ride-sharing in the marketization of Uber in Cape Town, South Africa. I use empirical evidence collected during the first phase of its operations in the city, between 2013 and 2015, to show how Uber relied upon the developmental entrepreneurialism of Cape Town to embed its ride-sharing market locally, and how the drivers enacted multiple technical, economic and ethical regimes within and without the constraints of the software platform. The research presented in this article thus contributes to understanding how the discourses of millennial development, with its promises of entrepreneurial empowerment, are adopted by global sharing-economy firms to enact their markets in the global South. It also reveals how a different genealogy of Uber's urban transactions offers an alternative perspective on the normative rationalities of the sharing economy and on the diverse economies that exist in relation to platform capitalism in the global South. |
英文关键词 | Uber sharing economy platform capitalism marketization Cape Town South Africa |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000474483900009 |
WOS关键词 | SOUTH ; CITY ; INFRASTRUCTURE ; NEOLIBERALISM ; TECHNOLOGIES ; CONSUMPTION ; ENCOUNTERS ; CITIES ; MONEY |
WOS类目 | Geography ; Regional & Urban Planning ; Urban Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Geography ; Public Administration ; Urban Studies |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/184680 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | Western Sydney Univ, Inst Culture & Soc, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pollio, Andrea. Forefronts of the Sharing Economy: Uber in Cape Town[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,2019,43(4):760-775. |
APA | Pollio, Andrea.(2019).Forefronts of the Sharing Economy: Uber in Cape Town.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,43(4),760-775. |
MLA | Pollio, Andrea."Forefronts of the Sharing Economy: Uber in Cape Town".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH 43.4(2019):760-775. |
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