and class, and the temporally cyclical nature of ‘the housing question’. She aptly constructs the book so that the reader is guided to understand that the Bedroom Tax is a process not a single government action that arrived unanticipated with the Welfare Reform Act of 2012. Bogue’s deliberate, dignified yet impassioned writing highlights how the Bedroom Tax is simply the most recent manifestation in a long history of symbolic and material violence enacted against the most vulnerable and precarious members of society. This is exemplified in Chapter 3, where Bogue deftly explains that ‘the Bedroom Tax was introduced into lives that were already financially insecure and precarious’ (p. 47). The Divisive State of Social Policy is eminently relevant to those interested in critical social policy analysis. While Bogue is primarily writing about the implications of the Bedroom Tax on social housing residents, her argumentation is far broader and provides and insightful critique on normalised precarity as part of a neoliberal regime. Indeed, the author adroitly illustrates how the imposition of the Bedroom Tax represents a neoliberal trend whereby ‘individuals are subordinated while simultaneously being cast as agents of their own fate’ (p. 91). Her ethnographic research, interwoven with a clear knowledge of policy and academic literature, makes the book timely and insightful. Bogue incorporates into her writing contemporary issues such as the rise of far-right nationalist politics, and a fear of the ‘other’. Clearly, this book will be of interest and relevance to readers of CSP and to scholars and activists located within the fields of sociology, human geography and social policy, and all, in fact, who are concerned with the evolution of precarity and marginality.

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书评：约翰·格伦迪官僚作风：有争议的失业管理

和阶级，以及“住房问题”的时间周期性。她恰当地构建了这本书，以便引导读者理解卧室税是一个过程，而不是 2012 年《福利改革法案》出乎意料的单一政府行动。博格深思熟虑、庄重而热情的写作突出了卧室税是多么简单这是对社会中最脆弱和不稳定的成员实施的象征性暴力和物质暴力的最新表现。这在第 3 章中得到了例证，博格在其中巧妙地解释说，“卧室税被引入了已经在经济上没有保障和不稳定的生活中”（第 47 页）。社会政策的分裂状态与那些对批判性社会政策分析感兴趣的人非常相关。虽然博格主要写的是卧室税对社会住房居民的影响，但她的论点要广泛得多，并且对作为新自由主义政权一部分的正常化不稳定提供了有见地的批评。事实上，作者巧妙地说明了卧室税的征收如何代表一种新自由主义趋势，即“个人被从属，同时被视为自己命运的代理人”（第 91 页）。她的民族志研究与政策和学术文献的清晰知识交织在一起，使这本书及时而富有洞察力。博格在她的写作中融入了当代问题，例如极右翼民族主义政治的兴起以及对“他者”的恐惧。显然，这本书对 CSP 的读者以及社会学领域的学者和活动家会感兴趣和相关，