Project outcomes

Outcomes from the project will be listed here as they are made available

Publications

Straughan, E. and Bissell, D. (2022) ‘Working in the gig economy is boring: non-encounters and the politics of detachment in platform capitalism,’ The Geographical Journal, accepted 26 April, 2022.

Straughan, E. and Bissell, D. (2022) ‘Curious encounters: the social consolations of digital platform work in the gig economy,’ Urban Geography, online early.

Lynch, C. Bissell, D. House-Peters, L., and Del Casino Jr, V. (2022) ‘Robotics, displacement, and the automation of human care,’ Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(3), 684-691. .

Bissell, D. (2022) ‘Affective life of financial loss: detaching from lost investments in the wake of the gig economy’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(3), 477-492.

Bissell, D. (2022) ‘The anaesthetic politics of being unaffected: embodying insecure digital platform labour’, Antipode, 54(1), 86-105.

Bissell, D. (2021) ‘Encountering automation: redefining bodies through stories of technological change’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(2), 366-384. 

Bissell, D. (2020) ‘Affective platform urbanism: changing habits of digital on-demand consumption’, Geoforum, 115, 102-110.

Fields, D., Bissell, D. and Macrorie, R. (2020) 'Platform methods: Studying platform urbanism outside the black box', Urban Geography, 41(3), 462-468.

Bissell, D., Birtchnell, T., Elliott, A. and Hsu, E. (2020) ‘Autonomous automobilities: the social impacts of driverless vehicles’, Current Sociology, 68(1), 116-134. 

Richardson, L. and Bissell, D. (2019) ‘Geographies of digital skill’, Geoforum, 99, 278-286

Bissell, D. (2018) ‘Automation interrupted: how autonomous vehicle accidents transform the material politics of automation,’ Political Geography, 65, 57-66.