Introduction: Strategic entanglements – un/commoning as relational labour of articulating resource modalities

Author(s)

Andreas Streinzer, Jelena Tošić

Abstract

In the introduction to this special issue, the authors focus on ‘strategic entanglements’ in the study of the commons, commoning, and accumulation by dispossession. They challenge the recent scholarly focus on projects that understand themselves as outside of capitalisms or other hegemonic economic systems. Instead, Streinzer and Toˇsi´cunderstand social reproduction as a totality of assemblages of actors and relations of capital, labour, property, investment, kinship, state, commons and more at play. In these assemblages, the commons coexist, compromise and collaborate with other forms of resource organisation and property regimes. The special issue zooms in on how actors navigate these entanglements to create, sustain, or undo their own projects and politics. Strategic entanglements is hence a perspective that helps in understanding the interdependences of various forms of property regimes and in investigating the kinds of relational labour involved in articulating them.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Journal

Critique of Anthropology

Volume

45

Pages

3–14

ISSN

0308-275X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X251315275

Publication date

03-2025

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504017 Cultural anthropology, 504009 Ethnology, 504008 Ethnography

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/b0d08e08-78ff-44e3-848c-3f432c990e8a