L. Richardson
Platforms, markets and contingent calculation: the flexible arrangement of the delivered meal
Richardson, L.
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Abstract
UK online food delivery company Deliveroo has a platform that automates the coordination of meal delivery, creating a market for the delivered meal. This market indicates the necessity to examine the social arrangements produced through the platform beyond the labour of the delivery worker. Markets comprise heterogeneous actors that require their coordination to be calculated. Deliveroo, though, offers two competing view of markets. First, as interfaces in which supply and demand are represented as autonomous blocs that are articulated through the goods of the delivered meal whose constitution, including the labour of delivery, is black-boxed. Second, as agencement – formatting collective arrangements – in which the goods of the delivered meal are contingently calculated as a flexible arrangement of riders, restaurants and customers in which these actors have differing degrees of choice concerning their participation, and through which new service performances are emerging in the necessity for their contingent interaction.
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Richardson, L. (2020). Platforms, markets and contingent calculation: the flexible arrangement of the delivered meal. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 52(3), 619-636. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12546
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 23, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 26, 2019 |
Publication Date | May 31, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Apr 23, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 26, 2021 |
Journal | Antipode |
Print ISSN | 0066-4812 |
Electronic ISSN | 1467-8330 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 52 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 619-636 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12546 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1332474 |
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This is the accepted version of the following article: Richardson, L. (2020). Platforms, markets and contingent calculation: the flexible arrangement of the delivered meal. Antipode 52(3): 619-636 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12546. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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