[Air-L] Platform Politics - new book out today

[Luke Yates]

Hi folks,

My book Platform Politics: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy is published today and might be of some interest to list members.

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/platform-politics

Best wishes, and have a good weekend / thanksgiving for those who celebrate it,

Luke

Dr Luke Yates (he/him) |  Senior Lecturer in Sociology<http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/sociology/> and researcher at the Sustainable Consumption Institute<https://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/>, University of Manchester
0161 2758619 |  luke.s.yates at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:luke.s.yates at manchester.ac.uk> | www.movements.manchester.ac.uk<http://www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/>
9.014, Alliance Business School, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

Publication links:

Yates (2025) Platform Politics: Corporate power, grassroots movements and the sharing economy<https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/platform-politics> Bristol University Press

Yates, Daniel, Gerharz, Feldman (2024) (special issue and introduction) Imagined futures in social movements: collective action, prefiguration, and temporalities<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/23/4>. Social Movement Studies

Yates (2023) How Platform Businesses Mobilise their Users and Allies: Corporate Grassroots Lobbying and the Airbnb ‘Movement’ for Deregulation.<https://academic.oup.com/ser/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ser/mwad028/7202313?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=ser&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=84962a36-bb59-4977-b4b8-9de9b21221b5%20%5btrack.smtpsendmail.com%5d> Socio-Economic Review

Yates (2022) ‘How everyday life matters: everyday politics, everyday consumption and social change’<https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/consoc/1/1/article-p144.xml> Consumption and Society