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Working in the comfort zone: Understanding coworking spaces as post-digital, post-work and post-tourist territory
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6309-2315
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6121-645x
2024 (English)In: Digital Geography and Society, ISSN 2666-3783, Vol. 7, article id 100103Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Coworking spaces are contradictory places. Typically, they are constructed as connected, domestic-like places for hard work and as recreational, aestheticized destinations for individuals in search of work-life balance and opportunities for partial disconnection. This article contributes an immanent critique of coworking spaces through the overarching notion of “coworking space territoriality”. Our point of departure is the concept of post-digital territoriality, which captures how individuals and organizations in various ways try to counter the downsides of escalating digitalization and reclaim a sense of bounded place. To further elaborate the subversive potentials of coworking spaces, however, the “post-digital” is brought into dialogue with “post-work” and “post-tourist”; two other “post-” concepts that contain ideas and practices that characterize the contradictory nature of coworking spaces. At the intersection of all three facets of territoriality, we argue, the coworking space emerges as a spatially and socially bounded comfort zone. The suggested approach informs the ongoing conversation about the ambiguous role of coworking spaces in broader transformations of society, especially in terms of social inclusion and exclusion. The theoretical arguments are anchored in a substantial literature review as well as in first-hand empirical data from a “hot-desking ethnography” covering ten different coworking spaces in Oslo, Denver, and Palma de Mallorca. 

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Elsevier, 2024. Vol. 7, article id 100103
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Coworking space, Digitalization, Digital disconnection, Post-tourism, Post-digital, Post-work
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Human Geography
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Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-102336DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100103Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85207370141OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-102336DiVA, id: diva2:1917502
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Swedish Research Council, 2020-01928The Research Council of Norway, 287563
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Available from: 2024-12-02 Created: 2024-12-02 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved

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