Author: Imogen Tyler
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My New Website
It feels fantastic to be launching a new website today featuring some of my work from over the last decade (and more!). During the pandemic years I was far too busy as a Head of Department at my University, as a mum and as a carer to elderly parents to maintain a website, so I’m really…
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Imagined Portraits — Lela Harris & Imogen Tyler in conversation
Event at Lancaster Judges Lodging Museum Lancaster, Sat 25 march – click here to book for online or in person In 2022 Lela Harris was commissioned by The Judges’ Lodgings Museum to create a set of portraits of real Black individuals from Lancaster’s history whose given names alone we know. Imogen Tyler will discuss with…
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Connor Sparrowhawk: the erosion of accountability in the NHS
Imogen Tyler. Re-posted from Open Democracy. Originally published on 4 February 2016. “For me, it’s not a question of saying the NHS is ‘safe in my hands’. Of course it will be. My family is so often in the hands of the NHS. And I want them to be safe there. Tony Blair once explained…
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Black Lives Matter and Legacies of Slave Ownership in Lancaster: the Bond’s and the Booker Brothers in Guyana
Imogen Tyler. Reposted from Lancaster Black History Group. Originally published on 14 August 2020. This is a photograph of Malena and Temi, both pupils at a local school, participating in a Black Lives Matter Protest on the steps of the Town Hall in Dalton Square, Lancaster, in June 2020. The photograph was taken by their…
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Democratic Fascism
Imogen Tyler. Reposted from The Sociological Review. Originally published on 21 November 2016. If we are to keep the enormity of the forces aligned against us from establishing a false hierarchy of oppression, we must school ourselves to recognize that any attack against Blacks, any attack against women, is an attack against all of us…
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In a world of commonplace horrors, how do we talk about the refugee crisis?
Imogen Tyler & Jenna Loyd. Reposted from Open Democracy. Originally published on 1 December 2015. This is my family.Baba, mama, baby all washed up on the shore. This is 28 shoeless survivors and thousands of bodies.Bodies Syrian, Bodies Somali, Bodies Afghan, Bodies Ethiopian, Bodies Eritrean.Bodies Palestinian. Jehan Bseiso, “No Search, No Rescue”, 2015. Ursula Le Guin’s…
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Wasted lives in UK immigration detention
Imogen Tyler. Re-posted from Open Democracy. Originally published on 2 October 2013. Since it was opened on 19 November 2001, migrants and their activist allies have been campaigning against Yarl’s Wood, a detention centre which holds 900 people and is currently run under contact by the outsourcing giant SERCO. Yarl’s Wood is a human waste…
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From Tottenham to Baltimore, policing crisis starts race to the bottom for justice
Imogen Tyler & Jenna Llyod. Re-posted from The Conversation. Originally published on 1 May 2015. West Baltimore, 8.39 am April 12: Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, stood on the street talking with friends. Police officers approached on bicycles and made “eye contact” with Gray, who then attempted to leave. The police chased him and…
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How the British Nationality Act 1981 laid the foundations for a stateless population within Britain’s borders
Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University who talks about how the changes to nationality legislation through BNA 1981 set the stage for people to be born stateless within the UK’s borders and explores how nationality legislation is designed to
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Stigma Machines
I have been asked a few times recently to reflect on the concept of stigma machines which is central to my new book, this extract from the concluding chapter (‘Rage against the Stigma Machines”) of Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality offers a little context about the genealogy of this concept in my work. ‘Rage against…
Professor Imogen Tyler 