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Hope on the move

A month ago I started a new project which has been brewing for some time now. Working with platform food couriers over the last three…

Dec 1, 2023

Hope on the move

Dec 1, 2023

Liberté, Égalité, Ubérisé

The latest exhibition for my recently finished project Doing Gig Work opened this week at Rize, in Villeurbanne (Lyon). Despite having…

Oct 6, 2023

Liberté, Égalité, Ubérisé

Oct 6, 2023

My story was not good enough for them

I tried three times to cross the sea, but I got caught. I tried to climb the fence from Nador to Melilla, from Morocco to Spain. If my hand…

Jun 16, 2023

My story was not good enough for them

Jun 16, 2023

CFP RGS-IBG 2022: Recovering geographies of labour and mobility in platformised delivery work

Abstract deadline for this session has been extended to March 18, 2022!

Feb 17, 2022

CFP RGS-IBG 2022: Recovering geographies of labour and mobility in platformised delivery work

Feb 17, 2022

Cluj-Napoca courier stories

I’ve been slowly progressing my ethnographic work in Cluj-Napoca, gathering insights on the platform food delivery work, as well as courier…

Jan 20, 2022

Cluj-Napoca courier stories

Jan 20, 2022

Shadowing and being shadowed

Most of my work in the last few months involved ethnography as a food courier for the platform Glovo in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I did…

Jan 3, 2022

Shadowing and being shadowed

Jan 3, 2022

Drawing the precariat

I have finally gathered the graphic illustrations for some of the food couriers' stories I am collecting for my project Doing Gig Work. I…

Sep 13, 2021

Drawing the precariat

Sep 13, 2021

All play and no work

It’s been rather the other way around: all work and no play. Six very busy months into the Leverhulme post-doc fellowship and we can…

May 20, 2021

All play and no work

May 20, 2021

Precarious work under platform capitalism

It’s been almost four months since I started my three-year research project, Doing gig work: Social implications of platform-based food…

Dec 19, 2020

Precarious work under platform capitalism

Dec 19, 2020

Back in the saddle: New project on cycle deliveries and platform work

It took me a detour with an extraordinary project on migration before returning to my fate, cycling research. This time I embark on a 3…

May 26, 2020

Back in the saddle: New project on cycle deliveries and platform work

May 26, 2020

Cosmin Popan

Cosmin Popan

GATES post-doctoral fellow, MaCI, Université Grenoble Alpes. Interested in mobilities, migration, labour, gig economy. Twitter: @cosminpopan

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