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Inside Platform Capitalism: Short-Term Rentals, Data Conflicts, Datactivism

This seminar session will welcome the authors of the book "Housing under Platform Capitalim" and researcher Murray Cox, who contributed to the book's data collection. Their presentation will explore the regulatory conflicts between platforms and public authorities.

Event, Research Seminar

salle Goguel, 56 rue des saint pères, 75007 Paris

Abstract

To mark the release of their book Housing under Platform Capitalism (University of California Press, 2025) the authors will revisit one of the key regulatory issues and conflicts that have fueled negotiations between platforms, local, national, and European governments for the past 10 years. They will be joined by activist and researcher Murray Cox, founder of Inside Airbnb, who contributed to the book's data collection and will discuss his work around the world and his perspective on the importance of data governance for regulating platform capitalism.

Biographies

Thomas Aguilera is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Rennes and vice-director of the CNRS Research Center ARENES UMR 6051. His research interests include public policies, territorial governance, comparative politics and political economy. His works focus on the governance of illegalities and urban informality, the regulation of Platform capitalism and the government of wildfires' risks in Europe.

Francesca Artioli is Assistant Professor in Spatial Planning and Urban Policies at the Université Paris-Est Créteil. Her research deals with urban and metropolitan politics and governance, and the comparative political economy of land and housing in Europe.

Claire Colomb is professor at the University of Cambridge in the field of urban planning, public policy and urban studies. Over the past 25 years she has lived, worked and researched in France, the UK, Germany and Spain. Her research interests span comparative urban studies, politics and sociology; urban and regional planning; and public policy.

Murray Cox is the founder of Inside Airbnb, a data activist project which uses data to help communities organise around the impacts of short-term rentals, and the Executive Director of the Housing Justice Data Lab, which uses data and maps to fight for the right to housing and the right to our cities. He is also a multidisciplinary artist and activist who uses visual, audio, spatial, temporal and data storytelling to explore themes of equity.

Practical informations

This seminar will be held in person and in English, on Tuesday, March 31st, 2026, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, in Room Goguel, 56 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris.

Registration is mandatory via this link.