Research Focus Areas

• Economic Anthropology
• Social Reproduction Approaches
• Queer Anthropology
• Deservingness and Inequality
• Racial Capitalisms
• Critical Ethnography

Short Biography

Andreas Streinzer studied Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt, and Sociology at Lancaster University. In 2019 he received his PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology on the reconfigurations of provisioning during the economic crisis in Greece (ÖAW doc.team). He worked as a researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main and at the University of St. Gallen.

Andreas Streinzer's research centres critical approaches to social reproduction, recently in particular the history and present of queer-Marxist modalities of critique. He combines an interest in forms of labour consumption, care and solidarity with questions of social organisation and inequality. In his research, he places a particular focus on the articulation of diverse forms of difference, of ways of relatedness, desire or racialization with the (re)production of capitalist socialisation. He is interested in consent to dominant orders, increasing authoritarianism as well as social struggles and movements that propose alternative futures. His interest in ‘economy’ and its entanglements with coloniality also focuses on the politics of demarcation of territories and the formation of economic entities as well as the financialization of nature.

He is co-convenor of ENQA, the European Network for Queer Anthropology in the EASA, and the working group on economic anthropology in the German Anthropological Association.

Supervision

Supervision is a central part of my academic work. I supervise theses that bring together approaches from economic anthropology with feminist and queer perspectives.

This combination does not have to be at the center of every project, but I expect all students to engage with questions of social reproduction and intersectional difference. I especially welcome research that critically examines capitalist and colonial orders and their regimes of gender and desire, while exploring alternative forms of living and relating.

I understand supervision as a collaborative, theory-driven, and empirically informed process through which new analytical perspectives in economic, feminist, and queer anthropology can be developed.

Selected recent publications

• Streinzer, Andreas. 2025. “How Queer Is a Shared Flat? Beyond Straightjackets of Imagining Social Reproduction in the Greek Crisis.” In Queer and Trans Life Anthropological Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco, E. J. Gonzalez-Polledo, Lars Aaberg, and Tunay Altay, 67-86. New York, Oxford: Berghahn.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas. 2025. “Leaking Panic as Policy: Bordering, Scaling, and Forming in Austrian Distributive Politics.” Anthropological Theory 25 (2): 195–216. doi.org/10.1177/14634996241311703Z

• Streinzer, Andreas. 2025. “Real Dystopias: Over-Commoning and Elite Capture in Austria.” Critique of Anthropology 45 (1): 96–107. doi.org/10.1177/0308275X251315273.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas, and Ryan Davey. 2025. “Queer Marxian Perspectives.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, edited by Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas R. Holmes, and Coco L. Kanters, 222–26. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas, and Jelena Tošić. 2025. “Deservingness.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, edited by Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas R. Holmes, and Coco L. Kanters, 208–12. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas, and Jelena Tošić. 2025. “Introduction: Strategic Entanglements - Un/commoning as Relational Labour of Articulating Resource Modalities.” Critique of Anthropology 45 (1): 3–14. doi.org/10.1177/0308275X251315275.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas. 2024. “Fiscal Extraction by Sovereignty: Calculative Bordering and Differential Entanglement in the Eurozone Crisis.” Anthropological Theory 24 (3): 311–24. doi.org/10.1177/14634996241233386.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas, and Ryan Davey. 2024. “Queer-Marxian Modalities of Critique in Anthropology: Generations, Approaches, Ends.” Public Anthropologist 6 (Forum: Critical Ethnography): 156–63.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas. 2023. “Distributed Fiscal Relations and Their Imaginaries: Metaphors of Redistribution and Reciprocity in Struggles About Distributive Justice in Austria.” Economic Anthropology 10 (1): 112–21. doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12266.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas, and Jelena Tosic. 2022. “Thinking with Gramsci Today: Gramscian Perspectives in Ethnographies of Europe.” Dialectical Anthropology 46 (4): 385–94. doi.org/10.1007/s10624-022-09679-0.
  
  
• Tošić, Jelena, and Andreas Streinzer, eds. 2022. Ethnographies of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality. New York, London: Berghahn.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas. 2021. “Common Senses of Distribution – Un/deservingness as Conceptual Tool for Understanding Inequality.” In Sentidos De Injusticia, Sentidos De Crisis: Tensiones Conceptuales Y Aproximaciones Etnográficas, edited by Mikel Aramburu Otazu and Sílvia Bofill-Poch, 159–73. Barcelona: Edicions UB (Collecció Estudis d’Antropologia social y cultural).
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas. 2021. “Uncanny Companions: Kinship, Activism, and Public Health as Interdependent Modalities of Care Provision Under Greek Austerity.” EthnoAntropologia 9 (1): 101–18.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas. 2020. “(Außer)Ordentliche Verzeitlichungen: Heroisches Harren, Retrofuturismus Und Vorwärts-Scheitern in Der Griechischen Wirtschaftskrise.” Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie 15: 143–81.
  
  
• Streinzer, Andreas. 2019. “Das Gerangel Um Die Extraktion. Wirtschaftsethnographische Betrachtungen Zu Schuldverhältnissen in Griechenland.” WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (2): 117–26.