Home and Housework in Platform-mediated Tourism

Vortrag von Dr. Maartje Roelofsen von der Universität Wageningen

Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2024 | 18:00 Uhr | HS 386 | FB Soziologie und Sozialgeographie| Rudolfskai 42 | 5020 Salzburg

 Maartje Roelofsen is a postdoctoral researcher in the Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University and Research. Maartje’s research has examined digital transformations within the realm of tourism, urban space, and geography education. She has explored the impact of short-term rental platforms on the conditions of hospitality work and understandings of home and (un)homeliness. Empirically, she has engaged in a long-term ethnographic project on Airbnb and its transformation of everyday life and housing in European cities. Her current postdoctoral project focuses on the gendered, racialised and classed divisions of domestic labour in households that have started to earn income through short-term rental platforms.