Richardson, L. (2018) Feminist geographies of digital work. Progress in Human Geography, 42 (2). pp. 244-263. ISSN 0309-1325
Abstract
Feminist thought challenges essentialist and normative categorizations of ‘work’. Therefore, feminism provides a critical lens on ‘working space’ as a theoretical and empirical focus for digital geographies. Digital technologies extend and intensify working activity, rendering the boundaries of the workplace emergent. Such emergence heightens the ambivalence of working experience: the possibilities for affirmation and/or negation through work. A digital geography is put forward through feminist theorizations of the ambivalence of intimacy. The emergent properties of working with digital technologies create space through the intimacies of postwork places where bodies and machines feel the possibilities of being ‘at’ work.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Progress in Human Geography. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Feminist theory; work; digital geographies; intimacy; economy |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2020 12:52 |
Last Modified: | 12 May 2021 16:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0309132516677177 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159517 |
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