Neoliberal states shifted from citizen wellbeing to policing and surveillance

Evidence

The discourses of civility and civil society, it turns out, have taken hold in the wake of, as adjunct to, critical rejection of the state in the name of celebrated individualism, of the force of “imperializing” globalization, as Hardt and Negri might put it, but also of the neoliberalist state transformation from a dominant concern with the wellbeing of its citizens to their policing, surveillance, and intensified regulation. Multilateralism, it could be said, is the logic of maximizing the likelihood of unilateral survival. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 203

Categorization

• XREF: This directly serves the reader’s core research question: the state’s retreat into policing rather than welfare is the institutional-side precondition for threatened-privilege mobilization. — connects to: Neoliberal security rights legitimize state violence policing the market order — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 50; Neoliberalism replaces the welfare state with a traffic-cop state; Neoliberal states redefined their mandate from welfare to securitization and control (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal states redefined their mandate from welfare to securitization and control #corroborates (0.95)
• Neoliberalism replaces the welfare state with a traffic-cop state #corroborates (0.93)
• States have shifted from citizen welfare to regulating flows, not withered away #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1804
• Neoliberalism strips the state to military-police functions rather than abolishing it #corroborates (0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 558
• The welfare state has transformed into a policing state of flows. #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 211
• State budgets shifted from welfare to policing and prisons #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 446
• States under racial neoliberalism mutate from welfare providers into prophylactic defenders against perceived threats. #corroborates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 472