Author: Imogen Tyler
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The British Library Keynote Lecture with Dr Chantelle Lewis
Living the wake of Colonial Capitalism: Racism, Poverty, Class and Struggle Chantelle Lewis and I collaborated in this keynote lecture/conversation hosted by the Identities journal and the British Library. We presented a chronology of race and class through histories of both oppression and resistance in Britain and across the Empire – and it has now…
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Enclosures and the Making of the Modern World
Thanks to everybody who has sent me messages and emails about the lecture ‘Enclosures and the Making of the Modern World’ which I made for the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project in 2022. I am currently working to write up the lecture in a published article, and will update you all when I have done this.…
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New podcast – Labour Struggles in 20th Century Lancaster
100 Years, 100 Objects: Stories from the Collections of Lancaster City Museums “Come back with us to 1906, and walk with the working people of Lancaster as we chat to Professor Imogen Tyler about this postcard which shows a labour demonstration in Dalton Square. Find out about unions, working conditions, and Williamson’s ‘War on Workers’. ”…
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Destigmatising Welfare (talk)
In June 2023, I gave a talk on ‘Destigmatising Welfare’ for the The Shame and Medicine Project and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at University of Exeter. You can now view this talk online here
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Lancaster Girls Grammar School and the Slavery Family Trees Community Project
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: Harry Yearnshire (Head of History, Lancaster Girls Grammar School) Alongside four students from Lancaster Girls Grammar School (LGGS) students – Jasmine Patel, Emma Chandler, Emily Yates and Bella Tyler – that have been involved with the Lancaster Black History Group (LBHG) Slavery ‘Family Trees’ research project have benefited…
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Social Abjection, Disposable Lives and the Politics of Disgust
Social abjection is a ‘revolting concept’ which names but also has the capacity to trouble the symbolic and material forms of violence it describes. It is by employing revolts against abjection as a map or guide that Revolting Subjects attempts to breach open the dustbin of history. The insurgencies of those designated as abject— enable us to…
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‘Hanging Town, Haunted City: Researching Connected Sociologies of Colonial Capitalism in Place’ (archived from December 2021).
Annual Lecture for North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership, Professor Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University In June 2020, hundreds gathered in Lancaster’s Dalton Square to participate in a vigil in response to the Black Lives Matter uprisings. Over the weeks that followed, the protests focused on Lancaster ‘s St George’s Quay, (where Lancaster Slave Ships…
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Slavery Family Trees Exhibition at Lancaster University Library 1-31st May 2003
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: This exhibition was first displayed at Lancaster City Museum in the summer and autumn of 2023, and we are pleased that it has now travelled to the University Library. It is one of the outcomes of the first phase of the Slavery Family Trees project, funded by a…
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Doing Anti-Racism. With Imogen Tyler, Geraldine Onek and Jasmine Patel
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: An LBH Podcast How are racism and stigma power linked? How can education empower us to face the past and tell new stories? And why must we break historical silences? Sociologist Imogen Tyler talks to fellow activists from Lancaster Black History Group, formed after a Black Lives Matter…
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Revolting Subjects Redux
Revolting: Verb: The action of revolt; apostasy; rebellion, insurrection; Adjective: That [which] evokes revulsion; repulsive, disgusting. Noun: That which is revolting; revoltingness. (abridged from the Oxford English Dictionary, 2012) A decade ago I published my first sole authored book, Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (2013). The forms of social violence, disenfranchisement,…
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