Thanks Dominik. I'd be interested to brainstorm some ideas on how to structure such a paper and prepare an abstract.

Adrien 

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Dominik Reusser <reusser@pik-potsdam.de> wrote:

Liebe alle,
den folgenden Call bitte weiter verbreiten.



wollen wir da transformap vorstellen und in eine geographische
Perspektive setzen?

LG
Dominik



Call for papers for the *RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2015*, University of
Exeter, 2-4 September 2015

*Critical geographies of the sharing economy*

The sharing economy is emerging as a powerful force for restructuring
post-recession economies, for mitigating climate change through the
sustainable (re-)use of resources, and for experimenting with
non-capitalistic practices in which ownership and markets are replaced
by access, collaborative consumption and commoning.
The sharing economy is also becoming a new venue for venture capital
investments, and has been accused of disrupting old industries by
devolving further any legal, fiscal and social responsibilities to
low-paid and unregulated “micro-entrepreneurs† who are induced to
monetize personal assets and to compete against each other through
self-branding.
The aim of the session is to address this controversy from a
geographical perspective, which is still missing. Sharing is indeed
embedded in interpersonal relationships and based upon a variety of
relational proximities which are needed to create links, trust, and
reciprocity among people who share. These networks have a peculiar
spatiality, may be more or the less inclusive, diverse, autonomous,
‘alternative’, and require the social infrastructure which is
typical of cohesive communities and of densely urbanized areas.
The problem is that community-based initiatives in the field often
strive to survive and to up-scale. Internet-based intermediaries are
indeed necessary to provide what self-organized networks rarely
guarantee: efficient platforms, reputation systems and the critical mass
of connections which are needed to reduce transaction costs and risks.
These ICT platforms are increasingly controlled by big corporations
which mobilize an array of benign geographical imaginaries -
communitarism, autonomy, intimacy, reciprocity, authenticity,
sustainability, etc. - for legitimising a business model that may be
regarded as the last frontier of post-fordism, and as the advent of a
libertarian and purely informational capitalism in which control over
social networks became a major source of oligopolistic power.

We invite papers which deal with the bright as well as dark side of this
emerging phenomenon, and in particular:
- The sharing economy and the spatiality of collaborative networks
- The sharing economy and the geographies of community
- The sharing economy and the diverse economies
- The sharing economy and the reconfiguration of work and labour relations
- The sharing economy and the extending geographies of outsourcing
- The sharing economy and creative destruction
- The sharing economy and (de)monetization
- The sharing economy and the marketing of the self
- The sharing economy and material/immaterial internet geographies
- The sharing economy and libertarian/informational capitalism

The session is sponsored by the *Economic Geography Research Group
*
If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of max
250 words by *10 February 2015 *to the *session convenors*: Filippo
Celata, University of Rome La Sapienza, filippo.celata@uniroma1.it
<mailto:filippo.celata@uniroma1.it>, and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya, rriberaf@uoc.edu
<mailto:rriberaf@uoc.edu>


ciao,
Filippo




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