Author: Imogen Tyler
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No Justice, No Peace: From Tottenham to Baltimore
No Justice, No Peace: From Tottenham to Baltimore Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University and Jenna Loyd, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (first published http://theconversation.com/from-tottenham-to-baltimore-policing-crisis-starts-race-to-the-bottom-for-justice-40914) 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…
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Professor Sarah Green: Comments on Imogen Tyler’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture “Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times”
Professor Sarah Green: Comments on Imogen Tyler’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture “Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times” 20 February 2015 [You can hear my lecture here and Sarah’s spoken response here as well. The full and extended text the lecture was based upon will be published as an article in a forthcoming issue of the Sociological…
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Feminist Activisms Summer School 19-22nd May 2015, Centre for Gender & Women’s Studies Lancaster University
Feminist Activisms: Feminist Media and Cultural Studies Summer school/ MA course, Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Lancaster University 19th-22nd May 2015 Enroll online here http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/sociology/event/5178/ Campus Map http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/maps/campus.pdf Programme At a Glance Tues 19th May Faraday SR3 9–‐10 Registration and welcome 10–‐1 Session 1: Introduction to feminist media and cultural studies: with Anne-Marie Fortier and…
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The Business of Immigration Detention: Events and Conference Programme
Conference Programme: The Business of Immigration Detention: Activisms, Resistances, Critical Interventions. Lancaster University, January 22-23 2015 Sponsored by the ESRC, the North West DTC and the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) JANUARY 22 – PUBLIC EVENTS 5.30-6.30pm Public Lecture: Professor Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. ‘”The business of detention, the death of asylum and the…
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“Being Poor is Not Entertainment”: Class Struggles against Poverty Porn – By Imogen Tyler
“Being Poor is Not Entertainment”: Class Struggles against Poverty Porn – By Imogen Tyler.
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Are critics of Benefits Street censoring the truth? – By Rob MacDonald and Tracy Shildrick
Originally posted on mediapovertywelfare: This week a senior Channel 4 executive, in charge of the making of programmes like Benefits Street and Skint, accused critics of so-called ‘poverty porn’ of ‘a form of censorship’ and declared that: “I defend our right – and the necessity – to tell the stories of some of the distressed…
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Rethinking the Sociology of Stigma in the transition to postwelfare states
I am delighted and 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 three years to focus on my new research project on stigma and inequalities (click on link to see my previous longer blog ‘The Stigma Doctrine’…
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The Business of Immigration Detention: The Conference – Jan 22-23rd 2015
The Business of Immigration Detention: Activisms, Resistances, Critical Interventions The Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) Lancaster University, January 22-23th 2015 To book a place see links below- you need to book separately for the Ice&Fire public performance (free) and for the conference (small fee). The Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University (CeMoRe) is hosting an ESRC…
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From “The Shock Doctrine” to “The Stigma Doctrine”: Imogen Tyler
I am currently developing a new research project titled ‘The Stigma Doctrine’, which is the “sister project” to Revolting Subjects. In 1964, Erving Goffman’s Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity transformed scholarly and wider public understandings of how stigma impacts upon well-being, social relations and community cohesion. Goffman made two central claims: 1) stigma…
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