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dc.titleCurative platforms: Disability, access, and food delivery work in Singapore
dc.contributor.authorHong, Renyi
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T02:37:38Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T02:37:38Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-21
dc.identifier.citationHong, 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.issn14614448
dc.identifier.issn14617315
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/227856
dc.description.abstractIn 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.isoen
dc.publisherSAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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dc.subjectSocial Sciences
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectAccess
dc.subjectcure
dc.subjectdisability
dc.subjectdisability and work
dc.subjectfood delivery
dc.subjectGrab
dc.subjecthistory of disability
dc.subjectlabor
dc.subjectplatform
dc.subjectSingapore
dc.subjectSOCIAL MODEL
dc.typeArticle
dc.date.updated2022-07-04T13:54:39Z
dc.contributor.departmentCOMMUNICATIONS AND NEW MEDIA
dc.description.doi10.1177/14614448221090638
dc.description.sourcetitleNEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
dc.published.statePublished
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