---
_id: '56367'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: '<jats:p> Platform cooperativism proposes to create an alternative to the
    corporate sharing economy based on a model of democratically owned and governed
    co-operatives. The idea sounds simple and convincing: cut out the corporate middleman
    and replace Uber with a service owned and managed by taxi drivers themselves,
    create a version of Airbnb run by cities, or turn Facebook into a platform democratically
    controlled by all users. This article discusses the ambivalences of platform cooperativism,
    exploring both the movement’s potentials to subvert digital capitalism from the
    inside and the risk of being co-opted by it. Platform cooperativism aims to foster
    social change by creating a People’s Internet and replacing corporate-owned platforms
    with user-owned co-operatives. It yokes social activism with business enterprise.
    As a result, the movement is shaped by tensions and contradiction between politics
    and enterprise, democracy and the market, commons and commercialisation, activism
    and entrepreneurship. This article explores these tensions based on a Marxist
    perspective on the corrosive powers of capitalist competition on the one hand
    and a Foucaultian critique of entrepreneurialism on the other. It concludes with
    a reflection on the politics of platform cooperativism, drawing out problematic
    implications of an uncritical embrace of entrepreneurialism and highlighting the
    need to defend a politics of social solidarity, equality and public goods. </jats:p>'
author:
- first_name: Marisol
  full_name: Sandoval, Marisol
  id: '110918'
  last_name: Sandoval
citation:
  ama: Sandoval M. Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion
    and Co-optation. <i>Critical Sociology</i>. 2019;46(6):801-817. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519870577">10.1177/0896920519870577</a>
  apa: Sandoval, M. (2019). Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between
    Subversion and Co-optation. <i>Critical Sociology</i>, <i>46</i>(6), 801–817.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519870577">https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519870577</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Sandoval_2019, title={Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism
    Between Subversion and Co-optation}, volume={46}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519870577">10.1177/0896920519870577</a>},
    number={6}, journal={Critical Sociology}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Sandoval,
    Marisol}, year={2019}, pages={801–817} }'
  chicago: 'Sandoval, Marisol. “Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between
    Subversion and Co-Optation.” <i>Critical Sociology</i> 46, no. 6 (2019): 801–17.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519870577">https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519870577</a>.'
  ieee: 'M. Sandoval, “Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion
    and Co-optation,” <i>Critical Sociology</i>, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 801–817, 2019,
    doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519870577">10.1177/0896920519870577</a>.'
  mla: Sandoval, Marisol. “Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between
    Subversion and Co-Optation.” <i>Critical Sociology</i>, vol. 46, no. 6, SAGE Publications,
    2019, pp. 801–17, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519870577">10.1177/0896920519870577</a>.
  short: M. Sandoval, Critical Sociology 46 (2019) 801–817.
date_created: 2024-10-07T12:21:32Z
date_updated: 2024-10-07T15:58:01Z
doi: 10.1177/0896920519870577
intvolume: '        46'
issue: '6'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 801-817
publication: Critical Sociology
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0896-9205
  - 1569-1632
publication_status: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
status: public
title: Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and Co-optation
type: journal_article
user_id: '110918'
volume: 46
year: '2019'
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