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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Antipode © 2023 Antipode Foundation Ltd
- ISSN
- 0066-4812
- eISSN
- 1467-8330
- DOI
- 10.1111/anti.12938
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This article focuses on how Airbnb hosts in the Boston metro, San Francisco, and Washington, DC respond to legislative short‐term rental (STR) regulations. I trace how hosts justify their multiple STR practices by way of the civic good all while foreclosing a debate about the potential negative effects of their monetisation. I show how hosts displace the displeasing aspects of STRs onto the abstracted category of the “Investor Host”, a stand‐in for foreign investment capital and indifferent corporations. I argue that STR owners replicate what Iyko Day calls “romantic anti‐capitalism”, a mode of critiquing capitalism that valorises the local and concrete uses of capital while displacing capital's destructive effects onto an abstracted and racialised other. I build on Day's theorisation by demonstrating how there are multiple genres of romantic anti‐capitalism that function differently based on a person's structural position within settler‐colonialism.
Journal
Antipode – Wiley
Published: Nov 1, 2023
Keywords: Airbnb; short‐term rental; romantic anti‐capitalism; platform capitalism; platform urbanism