The Scientific Editors and Editorial Committee of the journal Cadernos Metrópole invite researchers from areas of knowledge that approach the urban and regional issue to send texts to the organization of volume 27, number 64, about the theme

 

Platform urbanism

Editors: Luiz César de Queiroz Ribeiro and Nelson Diniz

In the first quarter of the 21^st century, capitalism underwent a new round of radical transformations that were even more disruptive than those of the 1970s. There are many ways of designating these recent transformations: “financialized capitalism” or “finance-dominated capitalism”, “rentier capitalism”, and “surveillance capitalism”, among many other possibilities.

Without losing sight of the other possibilities, this issue of Cadernos Metrópole intends to focus on “platform capitalism” and its repercussions on the social production processes of the urban and regional space. Such repercussions have given rise to concepts like “platform urbanism”, “digitization of urban space”, and “urbanization of the Internet”. It is important to mention that this theme has precedents in studies about the “flexible accumulation regime”, “network society”, and “technical-scientific-informational environment”.

However, the first decades of the 21^st century have also brought significant novelties, as the technical-scientific revolution has achieved a new level: the Internet of things, big data, machine learning, augmented reality, artificial intelligence… These and other technological innovations have been revolutionizing, once more, the ways in which humanity experiences its relationship with time and space.

A “new urban experience” is underway, connected with the “platformization of capitalism”, which cannot be understood without considering other factors of change, starting with the high degree of autonomy of fictitious capital. We are facing a new historical phase: “financial-informational dominance”, which penetrates all dimensions of social life. It has been precisely within the framework of this new phase that a massive volume of overaccumulated capital has shifted into the realm of investments in digital platforms. Besides the consolidated “Big Techs” like Amazon and Google, in the wake of the 2008 crisis, a series of “application companies” have started to impose their business model, based on algorithmic rationality, the new “digital-informational machinery”, and monopolistic control of georeferenced technologies. Uber, one paradigmatic case, with its passengers and goods transportation platform, has opened space to a broad debate about “Uberization”.

For all of the above, we welcome papers that analyze the impacts of the platformization of capitalism on the social production of space. How does the expansion of digital service platforms affect the mechanisms for capturing urban rents and the functioning of real estate markets? How do their dynamics strengthen trends of commodification and financialization of cities? Are short-term rental digital platforms, such as Airbnb, really influencing real estate prices? Are they boosting gentrification processes? How can we describe and analyze the “spatial strategies” corresponding to the “business models” of different digital platforms? How do they affect the social and occupational structure of Brazilian cities? How can we conduct comparative studies about the action of digital platforms in the main cities of Brazil and the world?

We should also bear in mind that these issues have much in common with the debate about “logistic urbanization” and, therefore, with reflections on the links between extraction, logistics, and finance. Either in the case of e-commerce or in the sphere of other economic activities, what happens in the field of logistics has become central to accumulation processes, requiring a new leap of quality in the management of spatial “fixed elements” and “flows”.

Furthermore, some authors argue that the idea of “urban extractivism” or an “extended concept of extractivism” is pertinent to suggest that the very logic of extraction overflows and reaches other sectors, capturing or “extracting” incomes, for example, from the indebtedness of families and the working classes. In other words, the “liabilities” that result from alternative (“financialized”) forms of guaranteeing social reproduction are converted into “assets” in the hands of banks and financial institutions. The debate about “assetization” or “financialization 2.0” derives from this. Furthermore, many approaches investigate how this logic captures informality.

In short, this issue of Cadernos Metrópole intends to collect theoretical and empirical contributions revolving around those issues, considering that we are dealing with a new frontier – an extremely important one – of transformation of life in the cities of the 21^st century.

Deadline to send manuscripts: DECEMBER 10, 2024

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORS

 

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• title in Portuguese, or in the language in which it was written, and in English;

• abstract with 120 (one hundred and twenty) words at the most, in Portuguese or in the language in which the paper was written, and another one in English, with indication of 5 (five) keywords in Portuguese or in the language in which the paper was written, and in English;

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• subtitles, no more than 6 words;

• bibliographic references following the instructions below rigorously:

Books

AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.) (year of publication). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

Example:

CASTELLS, M. (1983). A questão urbana. Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra.

 

Book chapters

CHAPTER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). "Title of the chapter". In: BOOK'S AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

Example:

BRANDÃO, M. D. de A. (1981). “O último dia da criação: mercado, propriedade e uso do solo em Salvador”. In: VALLADARES, L. do P. (ed.). Habitação em questão. Rio de Janeiro, Zahar.

 

Papers published in journals

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. Title of the journal. City, journal's volume, journal's issue, paper's initial and final page.

Example:

TOURAINE, A. (2006). Na fronteira dos movimentos sociais. Sociedade e Estado. Dossiê movimentos sociais. Brasília, v. 21, n.1, pp. 17-28.

 

Papers presented in scientific events

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. In: NAME OF CONGRESS, number, year, place where it was held. Title of the publication. City, Publishing house, initial and final pages.

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SALGADO, M. A. (1996). Políticas sociais na perspectiva da sociedade civil: mecanismos de controle social, monitoramento e execução, parcerias e financiamento. In: SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL ENVELHECIMENTO POPULACIONAL: UMA AGENDA PARA O FINAL DO SÉCULO. Anais. Brasília, MPAS/SAS, pp. 193-207.

 

Theses, dissertations and monographs

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title. Doctoral dissertation or Master's thesis. City, Institution.

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FUJIMOTO, N. (1994). A produção monopolista do espaço urbano e a desconcentração do terciário de gestão na cidade de São Paulo. O caso da avenida Engenheiro Luís Carlos Berrini. Master's thesis. São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo.

 

Internet texts

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the text. Available from. Date of access.

Example:

FERREIRA, J. S. W. (2005). A cidade para poucos: breve história da propriedade urbana no Brasil. Available from: http://www.usp.br/fau/depprojeto/labhab/index.html. Access on: Sep 8 2005.