Digital nomadism: transforming places, contesting spaces

Despite significant place-based transformations driven by digital nomadism, the perspective of place remains underexplored and is thus a notable and pressing research gap. The contributions in this collection address diverse issues concerning the impact of digital nomads in places at multiple scales and registers. They examine local-level community-building practices and embeddedness into local communities, analyse meso-level marketing campaigns that position cities as urban remote work hubs for remote professionals and digital nomads, investigate macro-level supply factors and infrastructures that make a digital nomad destination, and consider the logic of national-level attract-and-retain strategies of digital nomad destinations. The complex geographies of digital nomadism and its interrelationship with the places digital nomads visit and the spaces they inhabit are examined. By focusing on a multiscalar place-based perspective, this collection contributes to understanding of how place shapes and is shaped by nomadic practices, impacts and uneven geographies of digital nomadism, and broader trajectories of contemporary tourism developments.