Exhaustion

Federico De Musso

Chapter 5 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 114-118 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Exhaustion plays many roles in the economy, serving as both a limit to material and immaterial resources, management's bane, and a body-related index of fatigued relational and physical pressures. This entry foregrounds the strained efforts of an Italian Solidarity Economy Network's to establish a farmers’ market, exploring how exhaustion manifests within alternative food networks during the development of novel economic projects. As food activists and farmers encounter physical strain, communication fatigue, agenda-setting frustrations, and logistic weariness, they continue to express value in creating alternative social, economic, and political projects. Drawing from political ecology, the anthropology of care, and theories of actor–network and entanglement, this entry outlines how exhaustion emerges as a protean limit on economic practices at the intersection of physical, infrastructural, and political networks. It also reflects on how the endeavor to create an alternative to the unsustainable capitalist market is weighed, valued, and experienced.

Keywords: Exhaustion; Alternative food networks; Care; Solidarity; Volunteerism; Ethical consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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