Unboxing the Sharing Economy
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March 2018 The Sociological Review Monographs Series | March 2018 Unboxing the Sharing Economy: The Sociological Review Monographs Series Opportunities and Risks of the Era of Collaboration The idea of a rising ‘sharing economy’ is currently a hot topic in an international debate that builds on the emergence of peer-to-peer network exchanges that rely more on access than on property, on relations more than on appropriation, to call into question the sociological understanding of the relationship between the society and the market that goes back to authors such as Polanyi, Marx and Sombart. The aim of this monograph is therefore to bring together a selection Unboxing the of contributions that will help identify the analytical categories and indicators needed to interpret this phenomenon from a sociological perspective on a global scale. Through a collection of original empirical Sharing Economy: research on this topic, from Western and non-Western contexts, by both established and junior scholars and experts, this monograph will make a pivotal contribution to the study of what themes, methods and Opportunities and Risks of the Era issues characterise the rise of ‘sharing’ as a socio-economic model and a new frontier of sociological research. In particular, this monograph of Collaboration aims to answer the following questions: what do we mean with ‘sharing economy’? What kind of positive innovations or possible criticalities might this socio-economic model bring? Does ‘sharing’ really represent an alternative to capitalism, or an example of its transformation? In March 2018 Davide Arcidiacono, which areas, and how, is the way of doing business in society changing Alessandro Gandini and Ivana Pais, as a result of the diffusion of ‘sharing economies’? editors ISBN 9781526460851 SOR_66_2_cover book.indd 1 28/02/2018 6:16:35 PM Editors Subscriptions Michaela Benson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK The Sociological Review (ISSN: 0038-0261 print, 1467-954X Aims and scope [Managing Editor] online) is published six times a year in January, March, May, Emma Jackson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK July, September and November by SAGE Publications Ltd The key international journal The Sociological Review emerging as well as established academics, the series Marie-Andrée Jacob, Keele University, UK (London, Thousand Oaks, CA, New Delhi, Singapore, is home to a prestigious Monograph Series that pub- has for over fifty years produced intellectually stimu- Greg Martin, University of Sydney, Australia Washington DC and Melbourne), 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road, lishes collections of outstanding and original scholarly lating, coherent volumes of the highest quality. 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