Managed normlessness: How racial capitalism governs through fragmentation and instability
Published online on February 09, 2026
Abstract
Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article develops managed normlessness as a framework for understanding how instability is not merely tolerated but institutionally reproduced as a mode of governance under racial capitalism. Using the crises of Flint, Michigan, and Ferguson, Missouri,...
This article develops managed normlessness as a framework for understanding how instability is not merely tolerated but institutionally reproduced as a mode of governance under racial capitalism. Using the crises of Flint, Michigan, and Ferguson, Missouri,...