Geographies of sharing and the East/West divide in Europe. The case of HomeExchange
Geographies of sharing and the East/West divide in Europe. The case of HomeExchange

Summary/Abstract: Sharing economy supposed to be a current global, or at least Western, phenome-non, running across geographic, nation or culture borders. In the globalized world, everybody with the access to the Internet can participate in sharing econo-my platforms. This article shows that this is not the case even within the West, more specifically Europe. The text argues that the participation in the hospitality plat-forms follow old political, geographical and culture borderlines in Europe. The authors use the example of HomeExchange.com, a hospitality platform built on the sharing economy business model, to show that contemporary hospitality networks might reproduce the old borderlines and culture divides.

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