Encounters with the centaur state: Advanced urban marginality and the practices and ethics of welfare sanctions regimes
本文考察英国福利国家中针对边缘人群的制裁机制，发现执行者和受制裁者的态度与伦理比官方话语和批判研究所描述的更为复杂和模糊。
This article examines the relationships between advanced urban marginality and new forms of state craft to regulate marginalised populations, specifically Wacquant’s concept of the centaur state and the use of conditionality mechanisms in the British welfare state. The article empirically explores the experiences and perspectives of welfare practitioners and subjects. It finds some evidence of an inculcation of elite narratives and understandings of urban marginality and incidences of antagonism. However, the orientations and ethical frameworks of those deploying or subject to processes of sanctioning within reconfigured welfare regimes are more differentiated and ambiguous than both governmental discourse and critical urban studies often suggest.