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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0’: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2012
In this paper, we propose a new ethnographic method for the study of produsage (Bruns 2008) in social media contexts. The proposed method is based on three lines of thought: Marx’s method of ‘A Workers’ Inquiry’, the autonomists’ method of co-research ...
Brian Brown, Anabel Quan-Haase
doaj   +1 more source

Velebit Beer Case: Example of Brand Community Construction and Consumption as Immaterial Labour [PDF]

, 2014
Osnovna tema rada je fenomen konstitucije brendovskih zajednica kao neotribalnih oblika društvenog udruživanja. Teorijska elaboracija tog fenomena dopunjena je analizom slučaja brendovske zajednice Velebitskog piva.
Burić, Ivan
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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

Negri leitor de Marx: trabalho imaterial e multidão | Negri reader of Marx: immaterial labour and multitude

Liinc em Revista, 2010
Resumo O artigo pretende analisar um aspecto central da leitura de Marx por Negri, desde os trabalhos publicados no final dos anos 70 até hoje. Problematizamos, em especial, a leitura do “Fragmento sobre as Máquinas” dos Grundrisse, no qual aparece a ...
Clarisse Toscano de Araújo Gurgel, Alexandre Pinto Mendes   +1 more
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"During a busy day I don't get much done": on the materiality of immaterial labour in a multinational professional services firm [PDF]

, 2017
"During a busy day I don't get much done" In this quote from a client consultant condenses the dilemma discussed in this paper: what officially counts as creditable, "real work" rarely corresponds to the daily lived praxis in the office.
Mörike, Frauke
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley   +1 more source

Data Strikes Against Data Coloniality: Hacking Labour Law

Italian Labour Law e-Journal
From a decolonial perspective, what is the relationship between the limits of the legality of strikes and boycotts in digital labour? Starting from Faustino and Lippold’s framework, we will consolidate the idea that data coloniality is part of the ...
Renata Queiroz Dutra, Flavia Souza Maximo Pereira   +1 more
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Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
wiley   +1 more source