The Changing Temporality of Local Quick Commerce in India: Delivery Workers and the Post-Pandemic Everyday.
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the significance of the post-pandemic 10-minute guaranteed delivery model of quick commerce in reconfiguring spatiality and temporality through mediatised network spaces in urban metropolitan Indian cities by disrupting conventional models of economic and territorial space and dynamics in the social field. Using ethnographic data, it demonstrates the significance of the technologically driven mediatised “darkstore to consumer” quick commerce in reconfiguring the fluidity of network spaces, spatiality, and temporality in urban India. It highlights the resulting layered simultaneity of enhancing the affective and temporal urban network space for the urban quick commerce customers while reconfiguring the precarious urban labour practices embedded within these network spaces along the existing fissures of social inequality for the delivery workers.
Author: Kaul, Priyasha
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7140323084
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