diff --git a/content/bonfire/rijeka.md b/content/bonfire/rijeka.md index 45183cc..cfcdd9e 100644 --- a/content/bonfire/rijeka.md +++ b/content/bonfire/rijeka.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Our epoch could arguably be thought of as one of “total bureaucratization” ( This phenomenon has been particularly visible in the United States, provoking a number of commentators to reflect on the issue of bureaucratic harm. Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2022) has called such harm “organized state abandonment”, following David Harvey, an expression that also echoed Elizabeth Povinelli’s reflection on the “economies of abandonment” (2020), targeting Black and poor people most violently. Dan Spade has written on “administrative violence” (2015) enforced by welfare institutions that are barely provided with the necessary resources to serve the public good. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney similarly speak of widespread “enforced negligence” on the part of public-interest institutions such as universities, which instead of supporting their constituencies and workers, weaponize “professionalization” as a process for privatizing the social individual’s capacity to care (2013). Yet other scholars also point out that, despite constant defunding, increased automatization and privatization, street-level bureaucrats and front-line welfare operators (Prottas 1979; Lipsky 1980; Brown 1981) keep bending, breaking or simply overlooking rules in order to produce positive results for citizens and mitigate the harm provoked by racist or otherwise oppressive policies. -## References +# References Apprich, Clemens, Florian Cramer, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, and Hito Steyerl. *Pattern Discrimination*. meson press, 2018.