162344 20251017144628.0 doi 10.1080/14797585.2025.2523745 sideral 144897 ART-2025-144897 eng Moya, Laura Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8330-4338 Delivery depletion: rider viapolitics and the effects of im/mobilities upon platform food delivery couriers 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Research on platform delivery has paid little attention to riders’ health conditions. However, what are the consequences of pedaling for hours or waiting for an order that does not arrive, carrying heavy loads, moving around the city in adverse weather conditions, the fear of police stops, or the anxiety when failing the facial recognition system of delivery apps? Based on ethnographic research in the city of Zaragoza, Spain, our article traces how the constant and fragmented im/mobilities of digital food delivery impact riders’ bodies. Drawing from Migration and Mobility Studies on the one hand, and from the field of Dis/Ability Studies on the other, this original perspective enables to unveil how platform delivery labor entails deep and differentiated levels of wear-and-tear. Our notion of “delivery depletion” points to the embodied result of im/mobilities induced by capitalist forms of platform delivery upon a series of populations formally excluded from standard employment. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Casas-Cortés, Maribel Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9390-4022 4009 775 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Sociología 4009 030 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Antropología Social (2025), 1-21 Journal for Cultural Research 1479-7585 1297685 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162344/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 938634 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162344/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162344 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:25:02 ARTICLE