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dc.title | Curative platforms: Disability, access, and food delivery work in Singapore | |
dc.contributor.author | Hong, Renyi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-05T02:37:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-07-05T02:37:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-04-21 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hong, Renyi (2022-04-21). Curative platforms: Disability, access, and food delivery work in Singapore. NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221090638 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 14614448 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 14617315 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/227856 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the recent years, food delivery platforms in Southeast Asia have accepted people with disabilities as delivery workers, framing it as economic empowerment. This article examines this ambivalent bargain of economic rehabilitation in Singapore where Grab is headquartered. Drawing from historical records, it first traces the relations of “platform” to “access,” demonstrating how the framework of curative intermediaries had historically shaped expectations around work. Access in the 1980s was envisioned as intermediating infrastructural connections that could provide disabled people with resources, transforming them from liabilities to productive personhoods. The second portion draws from interviews with disabled delivery workers to highlight the problems that constitute this investment in intermediaries and cure. Although accommodative platforms provide some degree of economic inclusion, these accommodations are often partial, resulting in precarity, attrition, and injury. “Curative platforms,” therefore, signals the investment and twinning of cure and violence that subject the disabled to a compromised existence. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | |
dc.source | Elements | |
dc.subject | Social Sciences | |
dc.subject | Communication | |
dc.subject | Access | |
dc.subject | cure | |
dc.subject | disability | |
dc.subject | disability and work | |
dc.subject | food delivery | |
dc.subject | Grab | |
dc.subject | history of disability | |
dc.subject | labor | |
dc.subject | platform | |
dc.subject | Singapore | |
dc.subject | SOCIAL MODEL | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-07-04T13:54:39Z | |
dc.contributor.department | COMMUNICATIONS AND NEW MEDIA | |
dc.description.doi | 10.1177/14614448221090638 | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY | |
dc.published.state | Published | |
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