dc.contributor.author | Graham, Mark | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-24T11:55:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-24T11:55:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mark 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.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16360 | |
dc.description.abstract | Platforms 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.publisher | Taylor & Francis | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 | |
dc.title | Regulate, Replicate, and Resist - the Conjunctural Geographies of Platform Urbanism | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.rights.holder | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group | |
dc.identifier.externaluri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028 | |
dc.identifier.ag | ES/I033777/1 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028 | |