Clifford Shaw, The Jack-roller: a delinquent boy’s own story, 1930
In short, the penalization of poverty splinters citizenship along class lines, saps civic trust at the bottom, and sows the degradation of republican tenets. The establishment of the new government of social insecurity wedding restrictive workfare and expansive prisonfare discloses, in fine, that neoliberalism ↑ is constitutively corrosive of democracy.
Source: opendemocracy.net
Our society has learned to see why women would want masculine privileges like playing soccer and serving on the Supreme Court, but there’s not matching force expanding the world for males. Boys and men still patrol each other’s masculinity with a Glengarry Glen Ross level of ridicule and violence that can seem, to women, nearly surreal. Those males who violate the M-box’s limits on behavior are quite literally risking their lives.
E. J. Graff, “The M/F Boxes” (via quitequiteblue)
(via sociolab)
Source: quitequiteblue
We are surrounded by darkness on all sides as we rush through our brief span of life toward inevitable death. The agonized question “Why?” that almost every man feels at some moment or other as he becomes conscious of his condition is quickly stifled by the cliché answers that society has available. Society provides us with religious systems and social rituals, ready-made, that relieve us of such questioning. The “world-taken-for-granted,” the social world that tells us that everything is quite okay, is the location of our inauthenticity.
We must stress that, far from being a solution, police surveillance and imprisonment typically aggravate and amplify the problems they are supposed to resolve. We know that, beyond hitting mostly the destitute strata of the working class - the unemployed, the precariously employed, recent immigrants - incarceration is itself a powerful engine for impoverishment.
Loïc Wacquant
Source: jstor.org
The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
Michel Foucault
The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
Paul Virilio
We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn’t bringing prosperity or social justice to all.
Claudio Hummes
Our culture expects people to be outgoing and sociable. It’s the unstated norm, and against that norm introverts stand out as seemingly problematic.
Christopher Lane (via eclecticherry)
(via sociolab)
Source: hellopullip
If we are serious about ending poverty, we have to be serious about ending the systems that create poverty by robbing the poor of their common wealth, livelihoods and incomes. Before we can make poverty history, we need to get the history of poverty right. It’s not about how much wealthy nations can give, so much as how much less they can take.
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