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SUMMARY:Hybrid book forum - Juan's book Taxis vs Uber:  Courts\, Markets\,
  and Technology in Buenos Aires - Juan M. del Nido\, Department of Sociolo
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CONTACT:Connie Tang
DESCRIPTION:April 12th\, 2016\, Uber arrived in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. 
 A spectacular conflict with the taxi industry followed\, dragging in court
 s\, taxis\, influencers\, bureaucrats\, the press\, and Argentina's presid
 ent himself. As notions like freedom\, efficiency\, innovation\, and compe
 tition shaped the experience of the conflict\, economist and anthropologis
 t Juan M. del Nido noticed that taxi drivers' stakes in it were no longer 
 merely disputed: they were progressively written off\, pathologized\, and 
 explained away.\n\nLooking beyond precariousness\, labour relations and re
 sistance\, this first book-length study of the lead-up to and immediate af
 termath of the arrival of a major platform economy to a metropolitan capit
 al examines through this conflict the emergence of "post-political reasoni
 ng": an increasingly common way in which societies neutralize disagreement
 \, shaping how we understand what we can even legitimately argue about and
  how.\n
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building\, New Museums 
 Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB
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