Maartje Roelofsen

POSIZIONE ATTUALE:

Maartje Roelofsen obtained her PhD in Sustainable Urban and Regional Development at the University of Graz (Austria) in 2018. From 2017 to 2020 she worked as a lecturer at the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia). In 2020 she was awarded a 3-year competitive research grant by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain) to commence a postdoctoral project on the (geo)political implications of short-term rental platform Airbnb. During her academic career, Maartje has published in various international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Geography and Tourism Studies. Currently, she is writing a monograph for publisher Palgrave Macmillan on the impact of tourism-related digital platforms on everyday life in cities.

LINEE DI RICERCA: 

Maartje Roelofsen is a tourism studies scholar who received her postgraduate and doctoral training in Geography Departments in the Netherlands and Austria respectively. Thus much of her work has been written with geographical theory and philosophy and has mostly concerned studies into the socio-spatial impacts of tourism. At present, her work looks at the political, social and cultural changes that have been brought about by digital platform economies in the everyday lives of urban residents. In this respect, much of her empirical work has been concerned with digital platform Airbnb.

Her main research interest are:

• Digital transformation, with a focus on the transformation of tourism work and everyday life under platform capitalism
• Digital activism, specifically in relation to the socio-spatial impacts of tourism platforms, focussing on the discourses and practices that emerge in social media platforms and communities

Critical tourism studies, focussing on issues of power and justice, looking at the inclusions, exclusions and inequalities that tourism produces in terms of gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, class, age, weight, disability, family status, sexuality and race

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2020. Roelofsen, M. “A review of: The Future of Airbnb and the ‘Sharing Economy’. The Collaborative Consumption of Our Cities.” Tourism Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2019.1708448

 

2019. Minca C., and Roelofsen M. “Becoming Airbnbeings. On datafication and the quantified Self in tourism.” Tourism Geographies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2019.1686767

 

2018. Roelofsen, M. “Exploring the socio-spatial inequalities of Airbnb in Sofia, Bulgaria” Erdkunde 74(4) 313–327. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2018.04.04

 

2018. Roelofsen, M. “Performing ‘home’ in the sharing economies of tourism: the Airbnb experience in Sofia, Bulgaria.” Fennia 196(1). https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.66259

 

2018. Roelofsen, M., and Minca, C. “The Superhost. Biopolitics, place and community in the Airbnb dream-world of global hospitality.” Geoforum 91, 170–181 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.021

 

2017. Roelofsen, M., and Peters, K. “Doing femininity and respectability: Social networks and social capital among female members of Dutch student organizations.” Leisure Studies 36 (3) 341– 356. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2015.1105860.

 

2017. Roelofsen, M., and Peters, K. “‘Het was gewoon vanzelfsprekend.’ Over sociale netwerken, corpslidmaatschap en vrouwelijkheid.” Vrijetijdstudies 1 (35) 21–31.

Pur applicando tutte le necessarie diligenze volte a garantire la pubblicazione di informazioni corrette, aggiornate e complete, l’Università IULM non è responsabile dei contenuti riportati nei curricula pubblicati online sul Portale www.iulm.it. Il titolare del presente curriculum vitae è garante e responsabile in via esclusiva della correttezza e veridicità delle informazioni in esso riportate.

INSEGNAMENTI A.A. 2020/21

Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Hospitality and Tourism Management

Innovation for Sustainable Tourism Development