Author: Imogen Tyler
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The ancient penal history of stigma
One of the first recorded uses of the word ‘stigma’ appears in a fragment of sixth-century BC poetry written by Asius of Samos, who uses the word stigmatias to describe ‘a marked slave’; and slaves are henceforth regularly and scornfully referred to with words such as literati (lettered), stigmatici (tattooed), inscripti (inscribed), and graptoi (written…
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Stigma: Letters of Blood and Fire
the catastrophe of slavery was written on the skin – with stigmata that transformed human beings into property, into things, into commodities, and into guineas.
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Shame is already a revolution of a kind
Extracted from a letter from Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge, March 1843. From a series of letters written by Marx, age 25, to his friend Arnold Ruge. Marx and Ruge would later include the full eight-letter exchange in the first and only edition of the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, in February 1844.
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“Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality” (updated extract from Introduction)
Every news bulletin seemed to be calling me scrounger, fraud, cheat or scum. I began self-harming, carving the words ‘failure’, ‘freak’ and ‘waste of space’ into my arms, legs and stomach. Stephanie, 2019
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The hieroglyphics of the border: racial stigma in neoliberal Europe
The abstract and introduction below, is taken from a recent article ‘The hieroglyphics of the border: racial stigma in neoliberal Europe” from my ongoing stigma research project. It was included in a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies on ‘Race and Crisis” (Edited by Suman Gupta & Satnam Virdee). You can access…
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Rethinking the Sociology of Stigma: Stigma is not a self-evident phenomenon but like all concepts has a history.
This abstract below is taken from the introduction (written by myself and Tom Slater) to a special issue Monograph of the Sociological Review on The Sociology of Stigma. The full introduction, and full issue is online here and can be purchased in hardcopy here for £10. [If you would like a PDF of this introduction but cannot access…
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Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power
Drawing by Charlotte Bailey (from a forthcoming Graphic Essay based on this article). Please do not reproduce this images without proper citation: Charlotte Bailey & Imogen Tyler, 2018 “From Stigma Power to Black Power” Graphic Essay. In “Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power”, a recent article published from my ongoing Stigma research project…
Professor Imogen Tyler 