How digital on-demand mobile work is transforming Australian cities

Questioning quotation: Writing about interview experiences without using quotes

David Bissell

2022-11-29

It is expected that we present participant quotes when writing up qualitative interview research. Yet doing so carries the risk of..

Working in the gig economy is boring: Non-encounters and the politics of detachment in platform capitalism

Elizabeth R Straughan, David Bissell

2022-06-23

This paper develops the concept of the non-encounter for geography in the context of the changing experience of gig economy work d..

Negative urbanism: unknowability, illegibility and ambivalence in the platform city

D Bissell

2022-01-01

On-demand digital platforms are shaping processes of urbanisation by transforming governance processes, worker subjectivities and ..

Affective life of financial loss: Detaching from lost investments in the wake of the gig economy

David Bissell

2021-11-20

How people detach from financial relations is a critical but overlooked dimension of economic life. This paper offers a response b..

Negativity: space, politics and affects

Thomas Dekeyser, Anna Secor, Mitch Rose, David Bissell, Vickie Zhang, Jose Luis Romanillos

2021-11-17

This paper reflects on the status of ‘negativity’ in contemporary social and geographical thought. Based on a panel discussion hel..

Liminal geographies of exhaustion: exhausted bodies, exhausted places, exhausted possibilities

David Bissell

2021-11-01

The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour

David Bissell

2021-10-14

Building on critical geographic research on the embodied politics of labour that has explored how different forms of work transfor..

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

Elizabeth R Straughan, David Bissell

2021-05-30

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

2021-04-13

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

Negative Geographies Exploring the Politics of Limits

David Bissell, Mitch Rose, Paul Harrison

2021-01-01

This edited collection charts the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored problem of the negative..

Encountering automation: Redefining bodies through stories of technological change

David Bissell

2020-10-21

This article enhances our understanding of the thoroughly embodied nature of knowledge production in relation to automation by dem..

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

David Bissell

2020-10-01

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

Platform methods: studying platform urbanism outside the black box

Desiree Fields, David Bissell, Rachel Macrorie

2020-02-20

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

Autonomous automobilities: The social impacts of driverless vehicles

David Bissell, Thomas Birtchnell, Anthony Elliott, Eric L Hsu

2020-01-01

Autonomous vehicles are one of the most highly anticipated technological developments of our time, with potentially wide-ranging s..

Transitioning comforts: Bodily evaluations of urban mobilities

David Bissell

2020-01-01

This chapter argues that within research on mobilities, comfort is often treated as a predictable effect of different technologies..

Disoriented geographies: Undoing relations, encountering limits

David Bissell, Andrew Gorman-Murray

2019-12-01

This paper develops the concept of disorientation as a constitutive but overlooked dimension of mobile life, and it explores the s..

Experiential Attunements in an Illuminated City at Night: A Pedagogical Writing Experiment

Vickie Zhang, David Kelly, Laura Rodriguez Castro, Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, Ainsley Hughes, Tim Edensor, Campbell McKay, Michele Lobo, Melissa Kennedy, Peta Wolifson, Charishma Ratnam, Caitlin Buckle, Louise Dorignon, Elizabeth Adamczyk, Kaya Barry, David Bissell

2019-07-03

This article traces stories of singular footsteps taken on a collective meandering through Brisbane city, as a pedagogical experim..

Geographies of digital skill

Lizzie Richardson, David Bissell

2019-02-01

In an era of rapid technological change, especially considering the rise of robotics and AI, there is widespread anxiety about the..

Automation interrupted: How autonomous vehicle accidents transform the material politics of automation

David Bissell

2018-07-01

This paper develops our geographical understanding of the material politics of automation. Through the empirical site of the auton..

Proximity from a distance: Virtual and imaginative mobility through the intimacies of life on screen

D Bissell

2018-01-01

‘Places are chosen to be gazed upon because there is anticipation, especially through daydreaming and fantasy, of intense pleasure..

Material politics of images: Visualising future transport infrastructures

David Bissell, Gillian Fuller

2017-11-01

Cities around the world are suffering from mobility infrastructure crises. Governments are responding to these crises through diff..