Author: Imogen Tyler
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Protesting ATOS: The Right Not to Work #Atos #Kills
Today across the UK protests are taking place against ATOS, the French based Information Technology and Health multi-national first commissioned by the Government in 2008 to carry out the discredited work capability assessments (WCAs) with those claiming or seeking disability related welfare benefits. These ‘points-based’ tests –comprising of a combination of computer based questionnaires,…
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Lovely Review of ‘Revolting Subjects’ by Daniel Whittall in Green World (83) Winter 2014
Imogen Tyler Revolting Subjects Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain Zed Books, 224pp, £17.99 ‘There is clear evidence’, wrote Oxfam in its 2013 report Walking the Breadline, ‘that the benefit sanctions regime has gone too far and is leading to destitution, hardship and hunger on a large scale.’ Much ink has been spilled exposing…
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Stigmatization as a form of neoliberal governance
reflagging this extract from Revolting Subjects in homage to Stuart Hall who inspires my work
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Birth Tourism: Maternity Wards as State-Borders
“Women cheating their way into UK for free birth care” (Andrew Gilligan, The Sunday Telegraph) On December 30th 2013, The Daily Mail ran a front page story titled “Migrants will be Charged by NHS” which stated that “300 heavily pregnant women flew into Britain through one airport just to give birth in NHS hospitals”. Journalist…
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From Abjection to Natality
This essay was written by myself and Lisa Baraitser for an art catalogue ‘Private View: Public Birth’ on the occasion of an exhibition by the artist Helen Knowles September 2013 at GV Art in London. I have been working with Helen and other artists connected with the birth rites collection since 2009, when I organised an interdisciplinary symposium…
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The Economics of Illegality: Who Profits
Coffins in Lampedusa 2013 This post is “notes and data”, rather than a polished piece of writing , which I gathered together for a short talk at the Transeuropa festival in October. Thanks to Alina Muller for inviting me. I will not have time to write this up into a more formal academic paper for…
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Teach It, And They Will Come
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things: As another term approaches its zenith, we at The Disorder engage in a novel public service: making available a range of our module reading lists. Ready-made bibliographies, crib-sheets, self-help guides, or just objects of curiosity, to do with as you will. We have focused on our more specialised courses,…
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Factories of Human Waste Production: A Response to Calls for a Public Inquiry at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre
“Yarl’s Wood: An object lesson in how evil happens” 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 global securities company SERCO. Yarl’s Wood is a human waste production facility. In…
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Great review of Imogen Tyler’s ‘Revolting Subjects’ in Antipode
© Antipode – Original Review by Tom Slater @tomslater42 Imogen Tyler Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain, London: Zed Books, 2013. ISBN: 9781848138513 (paper); ISBN: 9781848138520 (cloth); ISBN: 9781848138544 (ebook) I began the task of reviewing this remarkable book with a tangled sense of admiration for, on the one hand, the amazing political…
Professor Imogen Tyler 