Platform body-territory politics

My new project entitled "Platform body-territory politics: gendered geographies of Santiago de Chile’s digitalising borderlands" is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2025-27) hosted at University College London and the Universidad de Chile. 

It centres on the experiences of predominantly Black and Indigenous Latin American migrant women with digital domestic labour platforms apps in Santiago de Chile. It aims to understand these women’s embodied struggles as everyday users of digital platforms, their everyday practices and strategies to overcome exclusions, and how their bodies perform to respond to the material and spatial conditions of digital urban transformations at the urban margins. 

It will develop a digital ethnography with Latin American migrant women exploring their platform-based lived experiences, embodied struggles and mundane negotiations of access to digital technologies and infrastructures, both online and in key sites across Santiago’s urban margins. The project will also draw on collaborative creative visual methods, such as digital body-mapping, with migrant women’s organisations to co-create digital outputs that narrate their stories and struggles in the context of racialised discourses about migrant spaces in the city.