Airbnb And/As Supply: Failed Listings, Scraped Data, and Refugee Relocation

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College with interests in infrastructure, waste, environment, colonialism, austerity, and platform capitalism. Her first book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford, 2019), won the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award (2020). Her current book, Homing Austerity: Airbnb in Athens, examines how Airbnb and austerity are together transforming the relationship between subjectivity, real estate, labor, and aesthetics. Her work has also appeared in several journals and has received support from national and international funding agencies. More information about her work can be found at sophiastamatopoulourobbins.com.