Digital platforms are often seen as innovative, but our research argues that they build on long-standing forms of precarious work. By tracing historical examples of home-based labour, task-based pay, short-term hiring, and labour middlemen, we show that today’s gig economy builds on older practices of precarious labour while reconfiguring them through digital technologies. This perspective reveals that platform work is part of a wider landscape of precarious labour.

This article is a philosophical analysis of the metaphor of the second Copernican turn as it is currently used in geographical debates on planetarism. Drawing on the work of Hans Blumenberg and in particular his method of metaphorology, a critical analysis of the current debate on the planetary and the planetary crisis is undertaken. It is argued that this is less a conceptual novelty than a continuation of an ambivalence that has existed since Copernicus in dealing with new challenges.

This article examines a study on housing inequality trends in Switzerland within the broader European context. Examining housing inequalities through a range of indicators, we find a differentiated but relatively stable picture at the national level, contrasting with growing public concerns about housing affordability in Switzerland. We discuss how this is linked to a time lag in data availability and partial protection from rent increases for tenants who do not (and are not forced to) move.

The contribution conceptualizes other caring communities as embodied, relational, and politically significant formations that arise through shared interdependencies. Drawing on empirical examples from Brussels – informal refugee initiatives in both public and private spaces, and digitally mediated belonging – it illustrates how caring practices create temporary, fragile, yet transformative communities that renegotiate social relations and open possibilities for alternative modes of caring.

We look at how cellular agriculture (CellAg) companies use visual storytelling to embed research on and the production of lab-grown meat within larger environmental themes. The videos highlight lab-grown meat as a necessary shift from traditional farming towards a more sustainable food production. We identified six main narrative patterns, such as technological advancement, scale of production, and ethical benefits, showing how CellAg companies promote their technology as eco-friendly and viable.

This article relates a conflict between customary landowners and the Ivorian state over the social housing site in Songon-Kassemblée, a peri-urban area in the District of Abidjan. Based on documentary research and field surveys, this study shows the preponderant role of customary landowners in negotiations related to land issues as well as the modification of the interplay of actors during the development process of this urban fringe.