[Commlist] CfP: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Platform Labour

I would like to share the following CfP for the EASA 2020 with you, 
located at the intersection of media anthropology and the anthropology 
of labour:

*Anthropological Perspectives on Global Platform Labour*

Convenors:
    Manuela Bojadzijev (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg/Humboldt
    University Berlin)
    Tsvetelina Hristova (Western Sydney university)
    Moritz Altenried (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)

Chair:
    Dr. Moritz Altenried (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)

Discussant:
    Prof. Dr. Brett Neilson (Western Sydney University)

    Digital labour platforms function as a central infrastructure that
    mediates, organises and controls flexible work. The panel aims to
    discuss anthropological perspectives on global platform labour, its
    genealogies as well as its embeddedness into diverse histories,
    local contexts and power relations.


            Digital platforms are not only transactional spaces which
            create different modes of connection, but also central
            infrastructures for the global circulation of goods, data
            and the reconfiguration of labour. Labour platforms of the
            so-called gig economy such as Deliveroo or Upwork function
            not only as mediators between capital and labour, they also
            reorganize, redistribute and regulate flexible labour - and
            thereby remind us of older but still existing
            infrastructures for the mediation of labour such as the
            putting out system for home-based work or the traditional
            street corner for day labourers. Thinking through the
            platform as an infrastructure that mediates, organises and
            controls labour therefore allows to move beyond the notion
            of platforms as completely new and disruptive actors.
            Anthropological perspectives on platforms could illuminate
            the complex genealogy of flexible and contingent labour and
            stress the embeddedness of platform labour into diverse
            histories, local contexts and power relations. The panel
            aims at analysing how platforms (re-)organise flexible
            labour relations in different socio-economic, political and
            cultures contexts. While many studies focus on platform
            labour in the Global North, a recent study indicates that
            around 30 million platform workers are located in the Global
            South (Fair Work 2019). We therefore especially invite
            papers focusing on platform labour in diverse geographical
            locations, going beyond frequently studied gig economy
            platforms and reflecting on topics such as:

    • Platforms as infrastructures

    • Platform labour and social reproduction

    • Digital labour and mobility/migration

    • Platform labour in relation to other forms of contingent work

Deadline: 20 January 2020

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8816#

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