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UCL Email:听david.cook.15@ucl.ac.uk
Websites:听,听
Year of start: 2017
Supervisors:听Hannah Knox and Adam Drazin
Subject:听Material Culture
Fieldsite: South East Asia, digital
PhD Research
Digital听Nomads and Imagined Worlds of听Work
My current research explores the lives of self-described digital nomads, who work out of co-working spaces in Southeast Asia.
The research focuses on the work practices and routines that are required to sustain working on the road. In addition, the imaginary and material traces that are created by and produced for digital nomads are a focus of this research.
The research explores the functions and roles that coworking spaces play in supporting digital nomads and investigates the elaborate strategies that digital nomads utilise, including digital mediated time management, self-regulation, skills maintenance, image management and personal branding.
Research interests
- Work cultures
- Globalisation
- Cosmopolitan identity and personhood
- Neoliberalism and design cultures
Recent Publications
Book Chapter (Forthcoming):听
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Presentations & Conferences
Digital Nomads: Tax arrangements and visa strategies as a way of thinking through changing notions of citizenship. One-Day Workshop:听 The Social Contract in an Era of (Post-)Neoliberalism and Populism UCL
Education History
- MSc Digital Anthropology UCL
- Graduate Diploma, HCI and Ergonomics, UCL
- MA(RCA), Royal College of Art, Degree by Thesis