Performing the sharing economy
Performing the sharing economy
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.11.004
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发表时间：
2015-12
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
L. Richardson
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作者：
L. Richardson
共享经济围绕着通过数字平台促进的活动，这些平台使点对点访问商品和服务成为可能。它构成了一个明显的悖论，既是资本主义经济的一部分，又是一种替代品。这种双重性需要关注共享经济的表现：它如何同时构建多样化的经济活动，同时也在解构正在进行的主导实践。这样的表现引发了什么是（共享）经济的问题，将其作为一个机会和批评的空间。通过对一个共享经济“节日”的参与者观察和对在线平台词汇的分析，本文概述了通过社区、访问和协作进行共享的三种表现。通过这些表现，它认为共享经济是偶然的和复杂的。它有可能通过对一系列不同的（经济）活动进行持续的重新配置，动摇并进一步巩固“一切照旧”。共享经济虽然为经济造成隔离和分离的叙述提供了一剂解毒剂，但同时也掩盖了新形式的不平等和所有权两极分化。尽管如此，本文最后指出，通过指出有关参与、获取和生产资源的更广泛问题，共享经济不应被忽视。相反，它应该以肯定性批判的精神促进经济的“数字化”转型，这可能会实现以不同方式进行经济的承诺。
The sharing economy converges around activities facilitated through digital platforms that enable peer-to-peer access to goods and services. It constitutes an apparent paradox, framed as both part of the capitalist economy and as an alternative. This duplicity necessitates focusing on the performances of the sharing economy: how it simultaneously constructs diverse economic activities whilst also inviting the deconstruction of ongoing practices of dominance. Such performances hold open the question of what the (sharing) economy is, suspending it as a space for both opportunity and critique. Drawing on participant observation at a sharing economy ‘festival’ and analysis of the vocabularies of online platforms, the paper outlines three performances of sharing through community, access and collaboration. It argues through these performances that the sharing economy is contingent and complexly articulated. It has the potential to both shake up and further entrench ‘business-as-usual’ through the ongoing reconfiguration of a divergent range of (economic) activities. Whilst offering an antidote to the narrative of economy as engendering isolation and separation, the sharing economy simultaneously masks new forms of inequality and polarisations of ownership. Nonetheless, the paper concludes in suggesting that by pointing to wider questions concerning participation in, access to and production of resources, the sharing economy should not be dismissed. Instead, it should serve as prompt to engage with ‘digital’ transformations of economy in the spirit of affirmative critique that might enact the promise of doing economy differently.