Abstract

This study attempted to understand the workplace geographies of food delivery platform workers as an example of place-making that displaced persons practice. This study defined displacement as an unstable socio-political state of beings separated from individual and collective identity and recognition as a member of society due to social change in a broader context, paying attention to the possibility of resistance of displacement as a temporary state and process that triggers the reconstruction of the place. In this approach, the phenomenon that the current labor law does not recognize platform workers as workers by judging the status of workers based on their exclusiveness can be analyzed as displacement. Displaced food delivery platform workers were reconstructing their place based on relationships in the workplace outside the ‘place of workers’ defined by legal boundaries. Specifically, food delivery platform workers were reconstructing the place of workers in the displaced workplace through material and non-material relations between heterogeneous bodies formed in four relatums: technology, encountering, shared senses of fear and pain, and social norms.