Jelke Bosma is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Department of Media Studies and the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies. His research interests include the digitalization and platformization of urban space, economies and housing, the politicization of hospitality and belonging, and urban theory. His PhD project is part of the ERC-funded project Platform Labor and applies critical urban studies and platform studies approaches to Airbnb, in order to develop a place-based understanding of the platformization of housing, households and urban governance in Amsterdam and Berlin.

Together with Valentina Carraro, Jelke received a Global Digital Cultures Seed Grant for the project ‘Belong Anywhere’: The Politics of Hosting in Occupied Territories, which seeks to deepen existing research on hosting and hospitality in contested territories, examining Airbnb not only as a company but, specifically, as a platform, whose politics are to a large extent shaped by hosting ‘communities’. He is also a researcher in the Responsible Digital Transformations project The Digitalisation of Illicit Urban Economies, which aims to understand the effects of the digitalisation of illicit urban economies, and to mitigate certain risks associated with these processes.

Jelke is a graduate of the research master in Urban Studies (cum laude) and the bachelor in Human Geography and Urban Planning (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam. He is affiliated with the Centre for Urban Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.