LEADER 03990nam 22006975 450 001 9911047668303321 005 20251124120549.0 010 $a3-032-10902-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-10902-6 035 $a(CKB)43900251100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32470016 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32470016 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-10902-6 035 $a(OCoLC)1572207530 035 $a(EXLCZ)9943900251100041 100 $a20251124d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Anti-Social State $eCare, Visibility and the Transformation of Need /$fby Stavros Pantazopoulos 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (105 pages) 225 0 $aSocial Sciences Series 311 08$a3-032-10901-9 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction Care as Promise and Technology -- Chapter 2 Surveillant Care Shifts in Social Policy -- Chapter 3 The Visibility of Need The Denudation of the Subject -- Chapter 4 Silence as Choice Subjectivity and Resistance -- Chapter 5 Conclusion Another Care Without Numbers Without Stigma Without Conditions. . 330 $aThis book explores the transformation of contemporary social welfare into what the author terms ?surveillant care??a hybrid system that merges protection with control, requiring recipients to surrender privacy and autonomy as prerequisites for assistance. Drawing on Foucauldian governmentality and critical social theory, the study examines how care has evolved from a citizenship right into a conditional service requiring extensive documentation and behavioural compliance. The book traces the historical shift from universal welfare provision to eligibility-based systems that transform citizens into managed cases. It analyses how visibility, documentation, and assessment function as interconnected technologies of power that reshape both social need and subjectivity. The work investigates how recipients must undergo ?social self-annihilation? to access services, while exploring alternative forms of resistance through silence, invisibility, and informal care networks. Through innovative theoretical analysis, the book contributes to international debates on welfare reform, neoliberal governance, and biopolitical management of vulnerability. It addresses scholars in sociology, political science, social policy, and critical theory, while offering insights relevant to practitioners and policymakers. Stavros Pantazopoulos is Assistant Professor of Social Transformation and Social Policy at the Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. He has published extensively on social policy, demographic change, and welfare regimes, highlighting the links between demographic shifts, welfare institutions, and social change. 410 0$aSocial Sciences Series 606 $aSocial policy 606 $aSocial service 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aWelfare state 606 $aSocial choice 606 $aWelfare economics 606 $aSocial Policy 606 $aSocial Care 606 $aSocial Theory 606 $aWelfare 606 $aSocial Choice and Welfare 615 0$aSocial policy. 615 0$aSocial service. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aWelfare state. 615 0$aSocial choice. 615 0$aWelfare economics. 615 14$aSocial Policy. 615 24$aSocial Care. 615 24$aSocial Theory. 615 24$aWelfare. 615 24$aSocial Choice and Welfare. 676 $a361 700 $aPantazopoulos$b Stavros$01885886 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911047668303321 996 $aThe Anti-Social State$94521250 997 $aUNINA