Author: Imogen Tyler
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From Revolting Subjects to Stigma Machines
‘We must first attend “violently” to things as they are, without illusions or false hopes, if we are to transcend the present.’ – Stuart Hall In the essay ‘Abjection and Miserable Forms’, written a year after the Nazi Party’s election to power in Germany, Georges Bataille argued that “abjection” is a mechanism of social exclusion…
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Democratic Fascism
The election of Donald Trump as 45th US President ‘is an extinction-level event’. The conservative-cum-libertarian commentator Andrew Sullivan used this phrase back in May during the most divisive election campaign in US history, and it captures the multiple catastrophes already unfolding in the wake of this election.
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The Sociology of Stigma: A Special Session at the British Sociological Association Conference in Manchester (April 4-6, 2017)
Imogen will be convening a special session (papers and discussion) on the sociology of stigma at the BSA in April, 9am -12.30am on Tuesday 4th April (Room 4.205/4.206), Manchester University. All Welcome. The aim of the special session Erving Goffman’s Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity [1963] transformed understandings of the social function of stigma. However,…
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80 years of war against workfare
Imogen Tyler has published a short article about workfare in The Precariat. Read the full edition here. A shorter version of this blog post was published in The Precariat a newspaper produced as part of the NewBridgeCentre Hidden Civil War project in Newcastle. The struggles of the under and the unemployed…
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Psychologists and the benefits system
Brigit McWade recently gave a paper on ‘Stigma, neoliberalism and welfare reform’ as part of an event entitled ‘Psychologists and the benefits system’, reported here by Disability News Service. Brigit’s slides from her presentation are here.
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Anti-Racist Bystander Intervention – #againsthate
Racism is a social issue which we ALL need to address. This is a small preliminary collection of online resources gathered by Dr Alison Phipps, myself and others which offers various kinds of advice on what you can do if you are witness to hate speech, (I am writing this with race hate in mind, but applies also to…
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Why is my Curriculum White?
A Lancaster launch of the national NUS campaign “Why is my Curriculum White?” will be held next week at which all staff and students are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please circulate widely to colleagues and friends. Watch the UCL campaign video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dscx4h2l-Pk The campaign began at UCL and has now spread to several…
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John Urry (1946-2016)
I am saddened by the untimely death of my colleague and friend Professor John Urry. I have worked alongside John for 17 years at Lancaster. He was my mentor when I was appointed as a lecturer in 1998 and he has been the warmest, kindest and most encouraging colleague. His death will leave a gaping hole…
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‘a tremendous pressure to feel useless’: Disability as a Political Problem
The right to a dignified and independent life: Learning from The History of the Disability Rights Movement Imogen Tyler, March 2016 ‘Those who cannot work, such as the sick, aged or unemployed, are subject to a tremendous pressure to feel useless … we reject any view of ourselves as being lucky to be allowed to…
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