PinnedCosmin PopanHope on the moveA 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, 2023Dec 1, 2023
Cosmin PopanLiberté, Égalité, UbériséThe latest exhibition for my recently finished project Doing Gig Work opened this week at Rize, in Villeurbanne (Lyon). Despite having…Oct 6, 2023Oct 6, 2023
Cosmin PopanMy story was not good enough for themI 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, 2023Jun 16, 2023
Cosmin PopanCFP RGS-IBG 2022: Recovering geographies of labour and mobility in platformised delivery workAbstract deadline for this session has been extended to March 18, 2022!Feb 17, 2022Feb 17, 2022
Cosmin PopanCluj-Napoca courier storiesI’ve been slowly progressing my ethnographic work in Cluj-Napoca, gathering insights on the platform food delivery work, as well as courier…Jan 20, 2022Jan 20, 2022
Cosmin PopanShadowing and being shadowedMost 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, 2022Jan 3, 2022
Cosmin PopanDrawing the precariatI 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, 20211Sep 13, 20211
Cosmin PopanAll play and no workIt’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, 2021May 20, 2021
Cosmin PopanPrecarious work under platform capitalismIt’s been almost four months since I started my three-year research project, Doing gig work: Social implications of platform-based food…Dec 19, 2020Dec 19, 2020
Cosmin PopanBack in the saddle: New project on cycle deliveries and platform workIt 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, 2020May 26, 2020