Andreas Streinzer
Andreas Streinzer is Postdoc at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) at the University of St Gallen and Researcher at the Institute for Social Research (IfS), Frankfurt am Main.
His research focuses on reconfigurations of provisioning, as a mode of conducting ethnographic and reconstructive research on social reproduction. He is most interested in how come certain livelihoods become possible, and how they connect to moral and political questions about personhood, kinship, capitalism, and statehood.
After studying anthropology (Vienna), sociology (Lancaster) and social philosophy (Frankfurt), he gained his doctoral degree (Vienna) in a dissertation focused on household provisioning during economic crisis in Volos, Greece. His postdoc project he engages in questions of inequality and moralisation, by focusing on wealth taxation as social struggle in fiscal relations.
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Contact: andreas.streinzer@unisg.ch