ESSAY ON THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF RISKS UNDER CONDITIONS OF EXTREME DISAFFILIATION

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  • Tadeu Alencar Alencar Federal University of Goiás image/svg+xml Author
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https://doi.org/10.36517/rm2026.e25019

Abstract

Given that disaffiliation represents a type of final stage of social vulnerability, is it still possible, in the contemporary context, to conceive of an extreme form of disaffiliation, resulting from the same neoliberal biopolitics that simultaneously renders marginalized populations socially invisible and economically functional? From this analytical perspective, the social remnants of the neoliberal society, either the homeless or the incarcerated population, illustrate the convergence between individualization of responsibility for social risks and the policy of privatizing services that were once monopolized by the State.

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  • Tadeu Alencar Alencar, Federal University of Goiás

    He is a Full Professor of Human Geography at the Federal University of Bahia (appointed via a specific public competitive examination held in 2012) and a researcher holding a CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship (Level A). He holds a PhD in Landscape and Environmental Planning from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (1994), and completed postdoctoral research in Outdoor Space Organization and Urban-Regional-Landscape Planning at the University of São Paulo (1995–1996), as well as in Cultural and Urban Geography at Université Paris IV (Sorbonne, 2002–2003) and Humboldt University of Berlin (2009). He has experience in the fields of Geography and Planning—with an emphasis on Urban, Regional, and Cultural Geography, as well as Urban, Regional, and Landscape Planning—focusing primarily on the following research themes: geographic theory and method; public space; urban and metropolitan peripheries; manifestations of popular culture; neighborhood identity; environmental cognition and perception; socio-spatial appropriation of media; the relationship between place and media; institutional regionalization strategies; grassroots entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial neighborhoods; street-based commerce and services; and the relationship between representation and Geography. He is a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Programs in Geography and in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia, where he also serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal *GeoTextos*. He is an associate researcher with the NEER network (Center for Studies on Space and Representations) and RegionAL (Latin American Observatory for Research on Regional Issues). He serves as a full member of the Editorial Board of the Federal University of Bahia Press. (Text provided by the author)

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2026-09-10

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ESSAY ON THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF RISKS UNDER CONDITIONS OF EXTREME DISAFFILIATION. (2026). Mercator, 25. https://doi.org/10.36517/rm2026.e25019