Introduction

Strategic entanglements - un/commoning as relational labour of articulating resource modalities

Bibliographic Data

ID2361237
AuthorsA Streinzer (0000-0002-5898-5573, University of Vienna, corresponding author), Jelena Tošić (0009-0009-8825-1085, University of St.Gallen)
Year2025
Volume45
Issue1
Pages3-14
Publication date2025-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritique of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308275x251315275
PMID40046842
OpenAlexW4408145425
LanguageEN
References cited26

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 Tošić understand 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

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