Perverted Care in the State of Exception: A Feminist Analysis

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Majewska, Ewa
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2026-05-04
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4
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51
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803-828
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0097-9740
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This article offers a critical feminist analysis of the perversions of care that appear in moments when care is instrumentalized by neoliberal and fascist states to cover for financial cuts and repressive or controlling actions of security. It follows Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitical power in the context of the state of exception and the contemporary return to fascism, as well as the works of Giorgio Agamben. It offers a detailed analysis of the feminist theories of care expounded by Nancy Fraser and Joan Tronto, highlighting the need to strengthen our critique of the appropriations and abuses of care in its neoliberal, imperial, and fundamentalist perversions. While discussing social reproduction theory and other feminist revindications of care, the article argues in favor of combining the critique of exploitation with a critique of power, as suggested by Angela McRobbie, Sarai Aharoni, and Johanna Oksala. The Hiacynt police operations conducted in 1980s Poland to surveil and control gay men, as well as more contemporary examples of conservative perversions of care, are discussed to showcase the need for their feminist critique. This article’s main claim is that a feminist critique of perverted care is a necessary companion to any critique of today’s neoliberal state of exception, as the fascist doctrine re-emergences in different countries by means of right-wing fundamentalism.
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SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities ,
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Publiczni wbrew woli. Wytwarzanie podmiotu w archiwach akcji "Hiacynt".
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