期刊
GEOFORUM
卷 91, 期 -, 页码 170-181出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.021
关键词
Airbnb; Sharing economy; Tourism; Biopolitics; Home; Community
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资金
- University of Graz through the URBI Faculty's Doctoral Stipend
- Rudi Roth Grant
This article intends to contribute to the existing body of critical scholarly work on the sharing economies of tourism. Focussing on the Airbnb platform, it investigates the biopolitical spatialities that emerge from its qualification and quantification of bodily performances of hospitality. Drawing on the work of Roberto Esposito, the article challenges the notion of community pervading the rhetoric of the platform and crucially influencing the ways in which travel, hospitality and home are reconceptualized. It does so by analysing some of the key technologies and calculative rationalities that drive the making of these global communities, and give rise to the champion of the Airbnb world of hospitality: the Superhost. We reflect on how ideas of community and hospitality translate into a metrics of care, localness and belonging, and on how specific practices related to the spatialities of the home are central to the qualification/quantification of life and of living spaces generated by the platform. We conclude by suggesting that, by exploring these sites and concepts, it is perhaps possible to unravel how these new geographies of hospitality are operationalized through the giving of what is proper - the intimate spatialities of the home - on the part of the hosts in order to become members of a greater Self, the Airbnb global community.
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