Author: Imogen Tyler

Originally posted on Mobilities Research: ‘We often pull up skulls and bones in our nets.’ (Lampedusa fisherman to BBC reporter, April, 2015)   Imogen Tyler, professor of Sociology at Lancaster, discusses her research on stigma and migration. In the context of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe, Tyler warns against ‘the intensive proliferation of legal instruments to…

by Brigit McWade Introducing myself I am an early career researcher, whose work to date has led to my involvement in something called Mad Studies. What is Mad Studies? As Lucy Costa, from The Empowerment Council in Toronto, Canada puts it: ‘Mad Studies is an emergent area of scholarship that aim to bring to the…

We are glad to share the news of a forthcoming Sociological Review Monograph to be edited by Imogen Tyler and Tom Slater, which, all being well, will be published early in 2018. it will include articles by Imogen Tyler, Tom Slater, Jenna Loyd, Anne Bonds, Lynne Friedli, Joanna Latimer, Brigit McWade, João Queirós, Virgilio Borges Pereira, Graham Scambler, Dayna Keene and Gergő…

reblogged from a guest post i did for justiceforlb.org @justiceforlb, with thanks to Dr George Julian for formatting and editing, and Sara Ryan for feedback. Connor Sparrowhawk, the erosion of accountability and the administrative grotesque We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal (Thatcher, 1975). For me, it’s not a question of saying…

Imogen Tyler will be taking part in this panel discussion with George Julian, Chris Hatton, and Hannah Morgan at The Futures of the End of Life conference, Lancaster House Hotel, 21st-22nd January. I made sounds at the John Radcliffe hospital yesterday I never expected to make. Or even knew I could make. Sounds of keening,…

by Imogen Tyler and Jenna Loyd, also published on Open Democracy 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 Bsesio, ‘No Search, No Rescue’, 2015. Ursula Le Guin’s dystopian…

The week commencing 2nd November 2015, Imogen will be contributing to two events in Berlin. The first event on Monday 2nd November 2015 is panel discussion on Austerity and Human Rights in Europe and the UK at 6pm, hosted by The Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University. In the Auditorium, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 3, 10117 Berlin. The second on…

Underclass ontologies (extracted from a review essay in Political Geography, 2015) by Samuel Strong @samuelrstrong “There’s a lot to be said about euthanasia regarding certain members of todays society. We are creating a bigger problem with these feral excuse for humans. We complain about immigrants and rightly so but we now have a under class…

I am honoured to have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize, which means that from September 2015 I will have some relief from my day job (teaching and administration) for two years to focus on my new research project on stigma and inequalities. Below I outline the initial research questions, aims and hopeful outcomes of this research. This wordpress site…