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Digital nomads: freedom, responsibility and the neoliberal order
Information Technology & Tourism ( IF 6.093 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-04 , DOI: 10.1007/s40558-020-00174-2
Fabiola Mancinelli

Digital nomads are individuals who, taking advantage of portable computing technologies and widespread Internet access, can work remotely from any location and use this freedom to explore the world. Using ethnographic and netnographic research, this article outlines this recent phenomenon, framing it into the lens of lifestyle mobilities and individualization theories. It adds to existing research by focusing on the new set of responsibilities and commitments entailed by the individualization process. In research participants’ explanations, disengaging from sedentary life enabled them to express an ethos of freedom, in which minimalism, uncertainty and risk replace material accumulation, stability and comfort. It is important however to pay attention to the structural constraints within which their ethos of freedom operates. The aim of the article is twofold: on one hand, it contrasts digital nomads’ sociocultural imaginaries of (in)mobility with the specific economic strategies they use to sustain their continuous mobility, including geoarbitrage and the commodification of network capital. On the other, it provides fresh ethnographic evidence on how digital nomads’ self-realization project meets the ideology of entrepreneurialism, allowing them to take advantage of privileged nationalities to navigate the global inequalities of the capitalist system. The article argues that, rather than a challenge to the system, digital nomadism is an opportunistic adaptation to neoliberal impacts.

中文翻译:

数字游牧民:自由,责任和新自由主义秩序

数字游牧民是利用便携式计算技术和广泛的Internet访问优势,可以在任何位置远程工作并利用这种自由探索世界的个人。本文利用人种学和民族志研究概述了这一新近出现的现象,并将其归纳为生活方式迁移和个性化理论的镜头。它着重于个性化过程带来的新的责任集和承诺,从而增加了现有的研究。在研究参与者的解释中,摆脱久坐不动的生活使他们能够表达自由的精神,其中极简主义,不确定性和风险取代了物质积累,稳定性和舒适感。然而,重要的是要注意其自由精神在其中运作的结构性约束。这篇文章的目的是双重的:一方面,它将数字游牧民族的(流动性)社会文化想象与他们用来维持其连续流动性的特定经济策略进行了对比,这些策略包括地理套利和网络资本的商品化。另一方面,它为数字游牧民族的自我实现项目如何满足企业家主义的思想提供了新的人种学证据,从而使他们能够利用特权民族来应对资本主义制度的全球不平等现象。文章认为,数字游牧主义不是对系统的挑战,而是对新自由主义影响的机会主义适应。包括地缘套利和网络资本的商品化。另一方面,它为数字游牧民族的自我实现项目如何满足企业家主义意识形态提供了新的人种学证据,从而使他们能够利用特权民族来应对资本主义制度的全球不平等现象。文章认为,数字游牧主义不是对系统的挑战,而是对新自由主义影响的机会主义适应。包括地缘套利和网络资本的商品化。另一方面,它为数字游牧民族的自我实现项目如何满足企业家主义意识形态提供了新的人种学证据,从而使他们能够利用特权民族来应对资本主义制度的全球不平等现象。文章认为,数字游牧主义不是对系统的挑战,而是对新自由主义影响的机会主义适应。
更新日期:2020-04-04
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