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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…

2 min readDec 1, 2023

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Hope on the move

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Cosmin Popan

Liberté, Égalité, Ubérisé

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

5 min readOct 6, 2023

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Liberté, Égalité, Ubérisé

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Cosmin Popan

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…

2 min readJun 16, 2023

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My story was not good enough for them

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Cosmin Popan

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!

3 min readFeb 17, 2022

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

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Cosmin Popan

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…

2 min readJan 20, 2022

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Cluj-Napoca courier stories

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Cosmin Popan

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…

10 min readJan 3, 2022

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Shadowing and being shadowed

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Cosmin Popan

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…

2 min readSep 13, 2021

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Drawing the precariat

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Cosmin Popan

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…

2 min readMay 20, 2021

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All play and no work

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Cosmin Popan

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…

1 min readDec 19, 2020

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Precarious work under platform capitalism

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Cosmin Popan

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…

1 min readMay 26, 2020

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

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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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