Friday, 20 October 2023



"The critical concept of “organised abandonment” as a way to understand how a range of institutions and organisations, both public and private, operate to further the objective of private profit at great cost to particular populations is developed more fully in the work of social theorist Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who emphasises its crucial connection with crisis and, significantly, with the idea of the “anti-state state”.

Put very simply, states manufacture crises in order to impose new modes of governing on populations, in order to deal with an underlying crisis of capitalist accumulation''.


 https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/october-2022/verticality/organised-state-abandonment/

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