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dc.contributor.authorGraham, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-24T11:55:44Z
dc.date.available2021-02-24T11:55:44Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationMark Graham (2020) Regulate, replicate, and resist – the conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism, Urban Geography, 41:3, 453-457, DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16360
dc.description.abstractPlatforms in the urban environment are fundamentally unaccountable. They present themselves as too big to control, too new to regulate, and too innovative to stifle, and remain un-democratic, and usually distant, organizations with no interest in promoting local voices or investing in local priorities. This paper argues that platforms control urban interactions whilst remaining unaccountable through a strategic deployment of ‘conjunctural geographies’ – a way of being simultaneously embedded and disembedded from the space-times they mediate. These conjunctural geographies, however, render platforms vulnerable. The ephemeral nature of platforms means we can avoid them, circumvent them and replicate them; their material nature suggests points of regulation and resistance. The paper closes by pointing to three broad strategies —regulate, replicate, and resist - which can be deployed to build alternate platform futures. Each of which is built on understanding the simultaneously embedded and disembedded ways in which platforms occupy their conjunctural geographies.
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.titleRegulate, Replicate, and Resist - the Conjunctural Geographies of Platform Urbanism
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.holder© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028
dc.identifier.agES/I033777/1
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028


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