Case management surveils families
How social services transform care into surveillance, making family support conditional on compliance with state monitoring
Charitable giving preserves inequality
How philanthropy functions as a legitimacy mechanism for wealth concentration while preventing structural change
Charity maintains poverty
The charity industry requires poverty to exist. This is not a side effect—it is the core business model.
Civic engagement channels dissent
How participatory democracy serves as a containment system for political opposition
Civil society manages dissent
How nonprofits and advocacy organizations channel opposition into controlled, ineffective forms
Collective memory gets commodified
How shared human experiences become products for sale, transforming memory into market opportunities
Commemoration rituals manage trauma
How societies use memorial practices to control collective memory and redirect trauma into acceptable channels
Communication excludes voices
How communication systems systematically filter out perspectives that threaten existing power structures