airbnb homes and people
Project poster photo (c) Ken Kajoranta
Project description: In 2017–2020, I conducted a study on the meaning of home and homemaking in the context of Airbnb. The research focused on situations where ‘hosts’ share their property with ‘guests’, and included interviews with Airbnb renters.
The project was joined by photographer Kenneth Kajoranta, who undertook an independent photo project ‘My Airbnb Memories’ as well as assisted with some of the interviews by documenting details of hosts’ homes. This collaboration resulted in the co-authored visual essay Unhomely Homes.
Project Publications:
Pechurina, A. (2025). ‘It is a feeling of home, but there is not too much of ‘home’ left”: Airbnb and ambivalent homemaking. Home Cultures, 1–20.
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Unhomely Homes: A visual study of Airbnb [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine.
COLECO Project: Higher Education Curricula Development on the Collaborative Economy in Europe
From 2020 to 2022, I took part in the COLECO project, which explored the workings and impacts of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation platforms.
Project PI: Dr Cristina Miguel
Project description: The project explored different aspects of the sharing economy and developed academic modules at the Master’s level, as well as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), addressing various aspects of the collaborative economy.
Role: co-investigator
Funding: The project was co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and included six partner countries: Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the UK.
Project website: COLECO project
project participants:
Selected Project Publications:
Miguel, C., Pechurina, A., Kirkulak-Uludag, B., Drotarova, M., Dumančić, K., Braje, I.N., Giglio, C. (2022) Short-term rental market crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stakeholders’ perspectives, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Vol 102.
Braje, I.N., Pechurina, A., Bıçakcıoğlu-Peynirci, N., Miguel, C., Alonso-Almeida, M.d.M. and Giglio, C. (2021), "The changing determinants of tourists’ repurchase intention: the case of short-term rentals during the COVID-19 pandemic", International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol. 34 No. 1, pp. 159-183.