Introduction: economies of care

Cristina Grasseni

A chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 93-94 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This section includes eight entries that approach the topic of care from different points of view. They showcase ethnographic examples from informal self-help groups in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria; food banks in Poland and food cooperatives in the UK; solidarity economy networks in Massachusetts; alternative food networks in Sweden, China and the US; as well as exhaustion in alternative food networks in Italy, and the economy of hope in Japan. Care emerges as a binding as well as ambivalent concept that straddles utopian and intentional communities, everyday micro-practices of solidarity, informal networks of reciprocity, and both top-down and bottom-up charitable institutions. These economic practices and conceptual geographies border with hope on the one hand and with exhaustion on the other – as if two opposite poles of one conceptual axis.

Keywords: Care; Food; Cooperatives; Ambivalence; Charity; Informality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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