Airbnb and the paradox of the body: The biopolitical management of hosts in four tourist towns in New Zealand.

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dc.contributor.authorPennell S
dc.date.available2021-04-01
dc.date.issued2021-04-01
dc.description.abstractirbnb is emblematic of a set of business practices commonly known as ‘the sharing economy’. It is a disruptive business model of homestay accommodation that has exploited conditions of growing precarity of work since 2008. Work precarity is particularly evident in regional tourist areas in New Zealand, which historically experience seasonal, part-time work and low wages. Airbnb draws specifically on the rhetoric of micro-entrepreneurism, with focus on individual freedom and choice: appealing concepts for those experiencing precarity. This article challenges the rhetoric of Airbnb and investigates notions of home, authenticity and hospitality that are reconceptualized under a specific regime of digital biopolitics. Drawing on research conducted in four regional tourist towns in New Zealand this article analyses the biopolitical interpellations that impact hosts’ subjectivities as entities in motion and considers the ways that the rationalities of Airbnb’s algorithms modulate the embodied behaviours of its hosts.
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dc.identifierARTN 14407833211000122
dc.identifier.citationJOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 2021
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14407833211000122
dc.identifier.eissn1741-2978
dc.identifier.elements-id442717
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1440-7833
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.isPartOfJOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211000122
dc.subjectAirbnb
dc.subjectbiopolitics
dc.subjectcommunications technology
dc.subjectdigital technology
dc.subjectplatform capitalism
dc.subjecttourism
dc.subject.anzsrc1606 Political Science
dc.subject.anzsrc1608 Sociology
dc.subject.anzsrc2002 Cultural Studies
dc.titleAirbnb and the paradox of the body: The biopolitical management of hosts in four tourist towns in New Zealand.
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of People, Enviroment and Planning
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