Airbnbizing Europe: mobility, property and platform capitalism
(WorldNews Greece)

New social class distinctions are increasingly relocated outside the borders of a particular national economy, becoming transnational and carried out by `ordinary people´. Koukaki neighbourhood in Athens, discovered by designers, curators and savvy Airbnb users, September 2018.Aristidis Vafeiadakis/Press Association. All rights reserved. The Euro-zone crisis that started in 2009 supposedly came to an end in August 2018 with Greece the last European country to exit the crisis phase . Yet, in the meantime, what in fact happened all around Europe is that apparatuses that were working for people´s well-being such as pensions systems, healthcare, education and so forth took one of their most...