David Bissell

Curious encounters: the social consolations of digital platform work in the gig economy

Elizabeth R Straughan, David Bissell

Journal article  |  2021  |  URBAN GEOGRAPHY

This paper explores interpersonal encounters between workers and consumers who use gig economy apps to investigate how urban socia..

A changing sense of place: Geography and COVID‐19

David Bissell

Journal article  |  2021  |  Geographical Research

In this essay, I explain how geography offers important ideas to better understand what is happening to our sense of place during ..

Affective platform urbanism: Changing habits of digital on-demand consumption

David Bissell

Journal article  |  2020  |  GEOFORUM

This paper develops geographic debates on platform urbanism by exploring the overlooked consumption practices that digital on-dema..

Friends disconnected: How mobile work transforms friendships through absence and presence

Elizabeth R Straughan, David Bissell, Andrew Gorman-Murray

Journal article  |  2020  |  AREA

In this paper, we focus on friendship as a significant interpersonal relationship that has not prominently figured in geographic d..

The politics of stuckness: Waiting lives in mobile worlds

Elizabeth Straughan, David Bissell, Andrew Gorman-Murray

Journal article  |  2020  |  ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE

This paper develops our geographical understanding of the gendered politics of (im)mobility by exploring the hidden politics of wa..

Losing Touch with People and Place: Labor Mobilities, Desensitized Bodies, Disconnected Lives

David Bissell, Elizabeth R Straughan, Andrew Gorman-Murray

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS

Losing touch is a pervasive bodily experience that has received surprisingly little geographical attention. Developing geographica..

Exhausting rhythms: the intimate geopolitics of resource extraction

Elizabeth R Straughan, David Bissell, Andrew Gorman-Murray

Journal article  |  2020  |  CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES

This article develops cultural geographical understandings of exhaustion through an exploration of the bodily pressures induced by..

Platform methods: studying platform urbanism outside the black box

Desiree Fields, David Bissell, Rachel Macrorie

Journal article  |  2020  |  URBAN GEOGRAPHY

This intervention reflects on critical perspectives on algorithms and geographical work on the urban-digital interface to highligh..

Commuter lives: a review symposium on David Bissell's Transit Life

Alan Latham, Tim Edensor, Debbie Hopkins, Helen Fitt, Michele Lobo, Juliana Mansvelt, Donald McNeill, David Bissell

Journal article  |  2020  |  GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH

This article presents a series of commentaries on Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities, published by MIT Press i..

Practising lively geographies in the city: encountering Melbourne through experimental field-based workshops

Michele Lobo, Michele Duffy, Andrea Witcomb, Chris Brennan-Horley, David Leo Kelly, Kaya Barry, David Bissell, Caitlin Buckle, Raven Cretney, Theresa Harada, Mohd Fabian Hasna, Natalie Kon-yu, Fatemeh Shahani, Shanti Sumartojo, Ellen Van Holstein, Peta Wolifson

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This article explores diverse ways of experiencing the city through an experimental field-based workshop supported by the Institut..