Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract The current research aims to analyze the mechanisms of capital preservation by non-institutional actors and how to deal with Kolbary through the description of Kolbary field. In order to achieve this goal, the Structuration theory of Anthony Giddens was used to formulate concepts. The research method is critical ethnography with Karspeakan approach and the study field of Baneh border region, 25 informed and involved people were selected for semi-structured interview by purposeful and snowball sampling method. Based on the results, Kolbari field has the characteristics of authoritarian-exploitative relations, one-sided planning of the Kolbary process, absence of collective agency, unfair distribution of profit and risk, and the priority of goods over Kolbar. Actors beyond the appropriate and natural channels of situation, invisibility, breaking camouflage; The creeping advance is trying to stabilize the position and continuity of Kolbary.Through the mediation of Kolbary, as the main survival tactic, in various ways, by rebuilding a kind of moral life, and through mechanisms such as compromising acceptance, accepting the dangers of Kolbary, justification, and negative struggle, they accept and perpetuate Kolbary. In the end, the existing inequalities in the field of border trade between the inferior groups and other groups should be evaluated in their weakness in mobilizing resources and non-participation in the dialectic of control, in other words, the lack of agency.