Christiane Meyer-Habighorst
Biographic Data
| ID | 335358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christiane Meyer-Habighorst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christiane |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer-Habighorst |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER-HABIGHORST C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7106-2709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This big shadow that we need to turn into light' - How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work
Domestic care workers have long been largely invisible in labour statistics and in public and policy debates. The emergence of digital labour intermediaries has exposed domestic care workers to a new, but problematic, individual visibility: to find jobs and customers, they must create digital public profiles with personal information. Accordingly, scholars emphasise that this individualised visibility poses risks to privacy and security of domest…
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care
When platform companies first entered the scene, they claimed that their novel business models did not fit with existing regulations. This narrative of 'platform exceptionalism' has increasingly been discredited. This paper focuses on platform companies that mediate labour in the care sector and explores what legitimation strategies they use today. We build our argument on interviews with platform entrepreneurs in Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich and a…
“I’m Fixing a Hole Where the Rain Gets in, and Stops My Mind from Wandering”: Approaching Sustainable Climate Change Adaptations
Sustainable development is a challenging field of research, colored by the paradoxes of modernity and development, and the trade-offs involved in balancing the “sustainable” and “development” sides of the various sustainable development goals. We must take these overarching challenges into account when entering a more specific discussion of what a concept of sustainable climate change adaptation may entail. This article reviews the history of thi…
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care
When platform companies first entered the scene, they claimed that their novel business models did not fit with existing regulations. This narrative of 'platform exceptionalism' has increasingly been discredited. This paper focuses on platform companies that mediate labour in the care sector and explores what legitimation strategies they use today. We build our argument on interviews with platform entrepreneurs in Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich and a…
“I’m Fixing a Hole Where the Rain Gets in, and Stops My Mind from Wandering”: Approaching Sustainable Climate Change Adaptations
Sustainable development is a challenging field of research, colored by the paradoxes of modernity and development, and the trade-offs involved in balancing the “sustainable” and “development” sides of the various sustainable development goals. We must take these overarching challenges into account when entering a more specific discussion of what a concept of sustainable climate change adaptation may entail. This article reviews the history of thi…
This big shadow that we need to turn into light' - How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work
Domestic care workers have long been largely invisible in labour statistics and in public and policy debates. The emergence of digital labour intermediaries has exposed domestic care workers to a new, but problematic, individual visibility: to find jobs and customers, they must create digital public profiles with personal information. Accordingly, scholars emphasise that this individualised visibility poses risks to privacy and security of domest…
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care
When platform companies first entered the scene, they claimed that their novel business models did not fit with existing regulations. This narrative of 'platform exceptionalism' has increasingly been discredited. This paper focuses on platform companies that mediate labour in the care sector and explores what legitimation strategies they use today. We build our argument on interviews with platform entrepreneurs in Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich and a…
Commodification (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Care work (1 works) · Climate change (1 works)