Abstract

Across the political spectrum of different historical periods, welfare deterrence has shaped social security and immigration policy in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Deterrence discourages access to state welfare through the production and mobilization of negative affect to deter specific groups from claiming state support, and by crafting public affect (of fear and disgust) about these target populations in order to garner consent for punitive policies. In this paper, we argue that deterrence works as a human technology where the crafting of negative affect operates as a technology of statecraft. Through critical juxtaposition and multiple genealogies of deterrence, this paper meshes time and space, and colony/colonizer and metropole, to show the historical and contemporary connectivity of the affective nature of deterrence. We identify five main operations that produce the ‘feel’ of deterrence: stigmatization by design, destitution by design, deterrent architecture, the control of movement, and the centrality of labour; as well as tracing the political economy of deterrence.

摘要

在不同历史时期的政治光谱中，福利威慑塑造了澳大利亚和英国的社会保障和移民政策。威慑通过产生和动员负面影响来阻止特定群体要求国家支持，并通过对这些目标人群制造（恐惧和厌恶）公众影响来获得对惩罚性政策的同意，从而阻止获得国家福利。在本文中，我们认为威慑是一种人类技术，而负面情绪的塑造则是一种治国方略的技术。通过批判性的并列和威慑的多重谱系，本文将时间和空间、殖民地/殖民者和大都市相结合，展示威慑情感本质的历史和当代联系。我们确定了产生威慑“感觉”的五个主要操作：设计的污名化、设计的贫困、威慑结构、运动控制和劳动力的中心化；以及追踪威慑的政治经济学。