Nina Afanasyevna Medvedeva
Biographic Data
| ID | 10250647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Afanasyevna Medvedeva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina Afanasyevna |
| FAMILY NAME | Medvedeva |
| SIGNATURE | MEDVEDEVA N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Platform-Enabled Durability of Colonial Racial Capitalism in Washington DC’s Wards 7 and 8
This article explores how platforms reinforce structures of racism and coloniality in Washington DC’s majority-Black Ward 7 and Ward 8. Drawing on ethnographic research with Black hosts who short-term rent on Airbnb, I follow how Black residents’ imaginaries of space are superseded by platform-enabled white users' imaginaries through Airbnb's "Location" star ratings. This rating draws down hosts’ overall ratings based on guests’ racist experience…
The Romantic Anti‐Capitalisms of Short‐Term Rental Hosting
This article focuses on how Airbnb hosts in the Boston metro, San Francisco, and Washington, DC respond to legislative short‐term rental (STR) regulations. I trace how hosts justify their multiple STR practices by way of the civic good all while foreclosing a debate about the potential negative effects of their monetisation. I show how hosts displace the displeasing aspects of STRs onto the abstracted category of the “Investor Host”, a stand‐in f…
Belong Anywhere? Airbnb's Corporate Narratives as Emotional Governance
700 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Nina Medvedeva Belong Anywhere? Airbnb’s Corporate Narratives as Emotional Governance in February 2017, Dyne Suh, her fiancé, two friends, and their dogs were supposed to enjoy a short vacation at the Big Bear Lake ski resort in California. Thirty minutes before they pulled into their Airbnb rental, the host canceled on Suh with the message, “One word says it all: Asian. It’s why we…
Belong Anywhere? Airbnb's Corporate Narratives as Emotional Governance
700 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Nina Medvedeva Belong Anywhere? Airbnb’s Corporate Narratives as Emotional Governance in February 2017, Dyne Suh, her fiancé, two friends, and their dogs were supposed to enjoy a short vacation at the Big Bear Lake ski resort in California. Thirty minutes before they pulled into their Airbnb rental, the host canceled on Suh with the message, “One word says it all: Asian. It’s why we…
Belong Anywhere? Airbnb's Corporate Narratives as Emotional Governance
700 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Nina Medvedeva Belong Anywhere? Airbnb’s Corporate Narratives as Emotional Governance in February 2017, Dyne Suh, her fiancé, two friends, and their dogs were supposed to enjoy a short vacation at the Big Bear Lake ski resort in California. Thirty minutes before they pulled into their Airbnb rental, the host canceled on Suh with the message, “One word says it all: Asian. It’s why we…
The Romantic Anti‐Capitalisms of Short‐Term Rental Hosting
This article focuses on how Airbnb hosts in the Boston metro, San Francisco, and Washington, DC respond to legislative short‐term rental (STR) regulations. I trace how hosts justify their multiple STR practices by way of the civic good all while foreclosing a debate about the potential negative effects of their monetisation. I show how hosts displace the displeasing aspects of STRs onto the abstracted category of the “Investor Host”, a stand‐in f…
The Platform-Enabled Durability of Colonial Racial Capitalism in Washington DC’s Wards 7 and 8
This article explores how platforms reinforce structures of racism and coloniality in Washington DC’s majority-Black Ward 7 and Ward 8. Drawing on ethnographic research with Black hosts who short-term rent on Airbnb, I follow how Black residents’ imaginaries of space are superseded by platform-enabled white users' imaginaries through Airbnb's "Location" star ratings. This rating draws down hosts’ overall ratings based on guests’ racist experience…
Sharing Economy and Platforms (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)