Airbnb and the paradox of the body
The biopolitical management of hosts in four tourist towns in New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2399642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stella Pennell (0000-0001-6581-2059, Massey University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 445-461 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14407833211000122 |
| OpenAlex | W3150263586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
Airbnb 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
Accommodation · Biopower · Embodied cognition · Hospitality · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Rhetoric · Sociology · Tourism · Work (physics) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender Studies · Law · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Sharing Economy and Platforms
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Publicity's Secret
When Tourists Move In
The Subject and Power
Archaeology of Knowledge
Interactivity is Evil! A critical investigation of Web 2.0
People as businesses’
Disruptive sharing in a digital age
Foucault and Spinoza
Rules for the Human Zoo
Trust and reputation in the sharing economy
Performing the sharing economy
The Superhost. Biopolitics, home and community in the Airbnb dream-world of global hospitality
Airbnb
Discipline and Punish
Communicative Capitalism
The "sharing" economy
Biopolitics, Sexuality and the Unconscious
A New Algorithmic Identity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |