[News] cfp Session „Urban care platforms and intersectional inequalities” - IGU Conference in Paris, 18.-22. July 2022

[S. Bauriedl]

Liebe Kolleg*innen der feministischen Geographien,

am 18.-22. Juli 2022 findet in Paris die 100. IGU Conference und in 
diesem Rahmen auch das 30-jährige Jubiläum der Commission on Gender and 
Geography statt.

Wir freuen uns über Beiträge zu unserer Session „Urban care platforms 
and intersectional inequalities”, die wir in Kooperation mit der 
Commission veranstalten. Weitere cfp zu Gender Geographies und anderen 
Themen sind hier zu finden:

https://www.ugiparis2022.org/callfor/index.php?langue=en

Bis 11. Januar 2022 können dort Beitragsvorschläge eingereicht werden.


Viele Grüße,
Sybille Bauriedl, Karin Schwiter, Anke Strüver

Call for papers
*IGU Conference in Paris, 18.-22. July 2022*

*Session „Urban care platforms and intersectional inequalities”*

*Session coordinators*

Prof. Dr. Sybille Bauriedl (University of Flensburg, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Anke Strüver (University of Graz, Austria)
Prof. Dr. Karin Schwiter (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

in cooperation with
*IGU Commission on Gender and Geography*

The digital platform economy has become an increasingly central actor 
for socioeconomic processes in cities. Service platforms such as Airbnb, 
Lieferando, Care.com and Uber operate as intermediaries re-organizing 
and transforming cities and the everyday lives of their inhabitants 
(Altenried et al. 2021; van Dijck et al. 2018). Service platforms as 
hegemonic business model realise profit not by providing services, but 
by building digital networks between supply and demand, between workers 
and customers. They aim for a concentration or even monopolisation of 
services in terms of market share and they tend to disrupt labour 
markets and exacerbate working conditions (Kenney/Zysman 2020; Srnicek 
2016; Woodcock/Graham 2019). Moreover, platforms that digitally mediate 
service provision predominantly target large cities because of their 
population density and the availability of both potential (and 
precarious) workers and customers (Sadowski 2020); they reorganise 
labour, service and consumption patterns and reshape social structures 
and everyday routines in cities (Berg et al. 2018). A gendered division 
of labour, neoliberal flexibility narratives as well as precarity and 
racial capitalism are essential features, especially for care-service 
platforms (Huws 2019).

Feminist, labour and economic geographers have long documented how 
caring activities are increasingly transformed into waged work (Lawson 
2007; McDowell et al. 2005). This commodification and marketization of 
care (Schwiter et al. 2018) is fuelled by aging populations, labour 
migration, changing gender relations and increasing numbers of double 
income households. Despite its most recent technocapitalist 
re-commodification as platform labour, a large share of care service 
work has remained invisible as it is bound to the home as an ‘invisible 
private space’ (Strauss/Xu 2018). This invisibility of care work is 
still based on its social and economic devaluation. Furthermore, the 
invisibility of platform mediated care work is inextricably linked to 
intersecting gendered, classed and racialised precarities and 
vulnerabilities (van Doorn 2017; Bauriedl/Strüver 2020).

In this session we would like to discuss (1) how digital platforms 
reorganise care services in and through urban space, (2) how these 
platforms transform labour in care services such as cleaning, 
child-/senior care and food delivery and (3) how the platformisation of 
these services and their spatial structures reshape intersectional 
inequalities.

We invite empirical and theoretical contributions for a paper session 
linking macro-political structures of platformisation with the 
micropolitics of urban everyday life and embodied subjects’ experiences.

Please submit your proposals for presentations until January 11th, 2022, 
using the template provided on the congress website: 
https://www.ugiparis2022.org/callfor/index.php?langue=en



-- 
Prof. Dr. Sybille Bauriedl - Europa-Universität Flensburg - Abteilung 
Geographie - Auf dem Campus 1 - 24943 Flensburg - T: 0461-805 2085 - 
sybille.bauriedl at uni-flensburg.de
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