Legal geographies of hyper-precarity in the Italian gig economy
Gianluca is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He’s currently focusing on how AI and digital platforms are reshaping governance in areas of limited statehood in Africa for the ERC-funded project ConflictNET. His research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, socio-legal studies and digital geography, with a geographic focus on East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Somaliland in particular), where he has conducted extensive fieldwork over the past ten years. He uses ethnographic methods to explore the interplay of technology and power in the specific cases of hybrid governance, digital finance and digital platforms in the Global South. Besides working on the ConflictNET project, Gianluca is PI of the UKRI-funded Datafication and Digital Rights in East Africa, which explores how digital platforms are reshaping processes of inclusion and exclusion and instigating new forms of organisation and practices of contestation in East Africa.
Date: 18 October 2021, 16:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Speaker: Dr Gianluca Iazzonlino (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Organiser: Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: admin@csls.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Part of: Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Alison Trinder