Title
Introduction: Strategic entanglements – un/commoning as relational labour of articulating resource modalities
Author
Jelena Tošić
University of St Gallen
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.
Keywords
commonscommoningentanglementaccumulation by dispossioneconomic anthropologylabourcapitalismsocial reproduction
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2122020
Appeared in
Title
Critique of Anthropology
Volume
45
Issue
1
ISSN
0308-275X
Issued
2025
From page
3
To page
14
Publication
SAGE Publications
Version type
Date issued
2025
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