The event consisted of three days of intense discussions prompted by a diagnosis that the platformisation of life and work has reconfigured the ideological and political coordinates and created the conditions for the emergence of an authoritarian turn that calls into question the future of democracies in countries in the Global South.

This concern was always accompanied by a hypothesis that this phenomenon is understandable from perspectives that go beyond local, disciplinary, and thematic limits persisting in the social sciences and humanities. For this reason, the four main researchers of the project, Dr. Fathima Nizaruddin, Dr. Gustavo Robles, Dr. Ülker Sözen, and Prof Dr. Wolfram Schaffar invited a broad range of scholars from different disciplines and study areas. The discussion during the roundtables was delineated according to thematic axes that inform our research lines: 1) the critical political economy of platforms, 2) the meaning of a perspective from the Global South, 3) the transformation of work in the platform economies and, 4) the meaning of a perspective from the Global South.

The workshop provided a highly productive space for discussion future research, in which the hosts and the guests could not only show their work but also establish valuable networks and plan future collaborations.

The workshop was attended by guests from various universities, such as the University of London (UK), Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Hamburg (Germany), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), University of Pennsylvania (USA), Utrecht University (Netherlands), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), University of Basel (Switzerland), Central European University (Austria), Vienna, and organizations like the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.