"Uberization" as Neoliberal Governmentality: A Global South Perspective
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Public Policy & Administration Department
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909619894616
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Journal of Asian and African Studies
Publication Date
8-1-2020
doi
10.1177/0021909619894616
Abstract
© The Author(s) 2019. Using the neo-Foucauldian literature on neoliberal governmentality as conceptual lens, this paper critically examines Uber’s influence on the governance of urban transport. It argues that ‘uberization’ represents a form of neoliberal governmentality in which Uber replaces the state as the arbiter and protector of citizenship. It distils the underlying logics of uberization through four discursive moments of subjectification and subjectivation in Ghana’s transport sector. Mainly conceptual but interlaced with empirical moments, the paper makes a vital contribution to the literature on how new forms of neoliberalization manifest through varied techno-material instruments in global south cities.
First Page
716
Last Page
732
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APA Citation
Kaye-Essien, C.
(2020). "Uberization" as Neoliberal Governmentality: A Global South Perspective. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 55(5), 716–732.
10.1177/0021909619894616
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/719
MLA Citation
Kaye-Essien, Charles Wharton
""Uberization" as Neoliberal Governmentality: A Global South Perspective." Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 55,no. 5, 2020, pp. 716–732.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/719