El presente artículo, de carácter ensayístico, pretende analizar el movimiento slow desde la perspectiva del slow tourism. Esta tendencia toma relevancia en período de pandemia ya que,en su versión más estricta, contribuye a relocalizar en la proximidad la actividad turística y promueve medios de transporte más sostenibles, así como una forma de viajar más pausada.Por un lado, el slow tourism pone en cuestión el modelo turístico actual, que genera dinámicas de despojo y banaliza la experiencia de visitar territorios. Por otro lado, sus límites tienenrelación con el hecho de ser propuestas pensadas desde la demanda y cómo su desarrollo puede derivar en dinámicas de elitización del consumo turístico. Para contextualizar este movimiento, se enumeran varias experiencias gastronómicas y enoturísticas.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, platform capitalism has expanded greatly in the delivery sector. The consolidation of an oligopoly controlled by a few corporate platforms has led to precarious working conditions for “gig economy” workers. Increasing protests and strikes have led to the reform of labour directives and to the emergence of alternative ways of organising work through platform cooperatives. This article examines how these emergent platform cooperatives are mobilised and their challenges and implications. Barcelona, the cradle of many platform economy and delivery sector start-ups, is a critical case for examining the recent birth of alternative delivery cooperatives. This article is informed by the cases of three cooperatives, organised by those working as riders, providing delivery services in the city of Barcelona: Mensakas, Les Mercedes, and 2GoDelivery. The paper shows how the embeddedness of these nascent platform cooperatives in favourable governance arrangements, a supportive social and solidarity movement, the knowledge and experience of workers, and the territory where the cooperatives are embedded are essential for their creation. This multi-layered embeddedness is necessary, but not sufficient, to explain how platform cooperatives thrive. The study concludes that the agency of platform workers, who triggered this transformation, was essential for the emergence of alternative ways of organising work in the platform economy.
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