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Second Shift 2.0. Intensifying housework in platform urbanism

18 September 2022 maartje Sharing Space

Since mid 2021, I have been carrying out research on hospitality work and divisions of labour in the Airbnb platform economy, together with Kiley Goyette who is a PhD researcher at the University of Toronto,

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COVID-19 and Reinventing Tourism Beyond Multiple Crises

19 July 2022 maartje Sharing Space

The Cultural Geography Group of Wageningen University and Research organized a 3-day meeting (17-19 July) for tourism geographers, many of whom were also attending the 2022  International Geographical Union Conference in Paris. The pre-meeting included

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Virtual Reality in Learning and Teaching Geography

7 July 2022 maartje Sharing Space

Since 2018, Richard Carter-White and I have examined the claim that virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential for pedagogical applications in geography. Interested to read what we found? The first results of our study have

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Urban Inequalities: Tourism’s Disruption of Housing

19 June 2022 maartje Sharing Space

From 17 to 19 June, the KOI (Collective for Social Interventions) in Sofia (Bulgaria) organized a three-day forum on Urban inequalities: from Right to the City to taking control that aimed “to enrich the understanding

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Out now: “Hospitality, Home and Life in the Platform Economies of Tourism”

30 May 2022 maartje Sharing Space

My first monograph has been a long time in the making and for this reason I am particularly excited to see it published by Palgrave Macmillan. It is out now for order and preview in

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Associate Editor of Tourism Geographies

19 April 2022 maartje Sharing Space

I am very excited to announce that I have accepted the invitation to join the editorial board of Tourism Geographies as an Associate Editor 🥳 For those interested in publishing in Tourism Geographies check out

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Guest lecture at the University of Trieste

14 April 2022 maartje Sharing Space

On 14 April, I was invited to give a guest lecture on The Digital Turn in Tourism at the Humanities Department of the University of Trieste. The guest lecture was embedded in the Tourism Geographies

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Call for Papers “Biopolitics and the Geographies of Tourism”

16 February 2022 maartje Sharing Space

Together with Joseph M. Cheer from Wakayama University and Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto from the University of Hong Kong, I am organizing a session on ‘Biopolitics and the geographies of tourism’ at the Nordic Geographers Meeting,

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Accommodating Guests during Pandemic Times

11 February 2022 maartje Sharing Space

In a recently published study, Simon Lind Fischer and I examine how Airbnb-hosts navigate the new landscape of hospitality within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We question how they have adapted their hosting practices

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Coming out soon: Recentering Tourism Geographies in the ‘Asian Century’

14 January 2022 maartje Sharing Space

Recentering Tourism Geographies in the ‘Asian Century’ edited By Harng Luh Sin, Mary Mostafanezhad and Joseph M. Cheer, is expected to be out on 14 April 2022. The chapters in this book published by Routledge

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OUT NOW: From overtourism to undertourism

14 January 2022 maartje Sharing Space

From Overtourism to Undertourism is out now! In this edited volume geographers reflect on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global tourism and consider what unknown futures may lay ahead. By charting the relatively

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Webinar: The body in tourism during pandemic times

20 October 2021 maartje Sharing Space

On behalf of the Faculty of Economics and Business and the NOUTUR research group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain) I am organizing a webinar on “The body in tourism during pandemic times” this

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Tourism Geographies Authors Round Table

15 September 2021 maartje Sharing Space

In light of our 2019 publication “Becoming Airbnbeings. On datafication and the quantified Self in tourism” in the special issue “Tourism geographies in the Asian Century” in Tourism Geographies I participated in a round table

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“Capitalizing on Crises” A new publication on Airbnb

23 June 2021 maartje Sharing Space

For the forthcoming book From Overtourism to Undertourism: Sustainable Scenarios in Post Pandemic Times edited by Dr. Valeria Pecorreli, I have written a chapter entitled “Capitalizing on Crises. Airbnb’s Transformations from the Great Recession through

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Guest Lecturing “The Digital Turn in Tourism” at IULM in Milan, Italy

22 March 2021 maartje Sharing Space

Starting 31 March 2021, I will be teaching a 6-week module on the “Digital Turn in Tourism” at the International University of Languages and Media in Milan (Italy) as an Adjunct Professor. This module consists

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New publication: Sanitized homes and healthy bodies

15 March 2021 maartje Sharing Space

Excited to announce the publication of a new article in open access journal Oikonomics. The article is part of a Special Issue on “New strategies and alternative aspects of the platform economy”, coordinated by Lluís

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Divisions of labour in the Airbnb economy. Presentation at the Platform Urbanism Symposium in Graz

8 March 2021 maartje Sharing Space

Between 4 an 6 March, the “Smart City” project group at the University of Graz organized the Online Symposium Platform Urbanism – Towards a technocapitalist transformation of European cities? The symposium brought together researchers whose

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Sharing Cultures: 7th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy, Barcelona

27 February 2021 maartje Sharing Space

This year, the 7th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy took place at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and was hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business. I had the pleasure to be on

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A year in review: 2020

31 December 2020 maartje Sharing Space

Each year on the 31st of December, my habit is to reflect on a year gone by. Surely I am not the only one in doing this! Without going into too much detail, this process

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Invited Seminar @ Faculty of Economics & Business – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

10 December 2020 maartje Sharing Space

Together with my fellow researcher Claudio Minca (from the University of Bologna, Italy) I have delivered a seminar at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya – where I am

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Contribution to COST Action Sharing & Caring

29 April 2020 maartje Sharing Space

In April 2020 I contributed a case study of my work to the COST Action group “Sharing and Caring”. The main objective of this action is to “develop a European network of actors focusing on

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Platform Economies & Urban Geography @University of Bologna

8 April 2020 maartje Sharing Space

My research stay in Italy unfolded in a different way than anticipated due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Consequently, the seminars that had I planned to give at the University of Bologna in

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CSPS Seminar | WE’VE GOT A FILE ON YOU! Datafication and quantification in academia and beyond

20 March 2020 maartje Sharing Space

UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands the CSPS Seminar has been postponed until further notice. I am scheduled to give a talk during the Centre for Space Place and Society Seminar “WE’VE

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Don’t judge me! Airbnb and the reputation economy

16 March 2020 maartje Sharing Space

MQ Lighthouse – Macquarie University’s in-house and online publisher –  has showcased my recent research in the below article (published 16 March 2020). To view this article in High Definition on the MQ Lighthouse website,

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Visiting Scholar at the University of Bologna Italy

2 March 2020 maartje Sharing Space

Research time…. In the upcoming months I will be dedicating myself fully to new research projects with colleagues in Europe and writing a manuscript for a book that will be published with Palgrave Macmillan in

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CTS Asia-Pacific Conference 2020

19 February 2020 maartje Sharing Space

The bi-annual Critical Tourism Studies Asia-Pacific Conference took place in Wakayama, Japan this year. Besides giving a paper presentation there myself, I moderated a session on ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Tourism’ and attended numerous other

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Guest Lecture Tourist Experiences @WUR

22 January 2020 maartje Sharing Space

This is the third time that I have delivered a guest lecture in the ‘Tourist Experiences‘ course at Wageningen University. The course “examines the conceptualisation and management of the tourism experience in the context of

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Visit to IULM in Milan, Italy

12 November 2019 maartje Sharing Space

I visited the International University of Languages and Media (IULM) in Milan, Italy on 11 November to discuss future collaborations with colleagues at the Faculty of Arts, Tourism and Markets. Additionally, I delivered a guest

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Immersive Tech event

29 October 2019 maartje Sharing Space

Together with my colleagues Dr Richard Carter-White and David di Muro from Macquarie University Library, we have delivered a presentation at the Immersive Technologies Interest Group (ITIG) Exchange. The presentation discusses our experience with the

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RGS-IBG Conference ’19

30 August 2019 maartje Sharing Space

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) conference took place in London (UK) this year and there were a couple of great sessions that I had the pleasure to attend. The Overtourism

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