Author: Imogen Tyler
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Diversity Capitalism part 1 (longer blog post to follow)
Diversity Capitalism Last year Sally Hines (Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at Leeds University) and Yvette Taylor (Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, at London South Bank) emailed to ask me if I would contribute to an ESRC-funded seminar series on ‘Critical diversities’. My immediate response was to…
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After Citizenship Or rethinking Citizenship as a technology of control and resistance
After the Home Office ‘go home’ migrant van scandal of the summer (see below) –a great illustration of current forms of ‘state racism’ in action– I revisited some of my work on citizenship as a technology of control and resistance. What follows is an extract from the introduction to a special issue of citizenship studies on…
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state racism or why citizenship is an unbritish concept
State racism a short extract from Imogen Tyler ‘Designed to Fail: The Biopolitics of British Citizenship’ free to download the follow article if you follow the link Although a vast theoretical literature on citizenship (and of course numerous laws, policies, tests) have been imported into Britain, citizenship is an oddly undeveloped concept within British society…
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Disaster Capitalism: Stigmatization as a form of neoliberal governance
Extracted and reworked from the Afterword of Revolting Subjects In “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, Naomi Klein details the ways in which ‘the policy trinity’ of neoliberalism, ‘the elimination of the public sphere, total liberation for corporations and skeletal social spending’ has been enabled through the invention and/or exploitation of crises,…
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Postcolonial Girl: Remember Gamu Gate?
Postcolonial Girl: Mediated Intimacy and Migrant Audibility Imogen Tyler and Rosalind Gill In October 2010, Gamu Nhengu, a Zimbabwean teenager, was ejected from the popular British reality TV talent show, The X Factor, on which she was a contestant. There was a public backlash to what many perceived was an unjust eviction. Within days, however,…
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Social Abjection: Extract from The Introduction to Revolting Subjects
Revolting: Verb: The action of revolt; apostasy; rebellion, insurrection; Adjective: That [which] evokes revulsion; repulsive, disgusting. Noun: That which is revolting; revoltingness. (abridged from the Oxford English Dictionary, 2012) Introduction Revolting is a powerful word. Within an emotional register being revolted is an expression of disgust, ‘to react or rise with repugnance against something. To…
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The Wretched of the Earth: ‘However hard it is kicked or stoned it continues to gnaw at the roots of the tree like a pack of rats’ (Fanon).
The Wretched of the Earth ‘However hard it is kicked or stoned it continues to gnaw at the roots of the tree like a pack of rats’ (Fanon). In an extraordinary short essay titled ‘Abjection and Miserable Forms’ (Bataille [1934] 1993) Georges Bataille, writing in the shadow of Hitler’s rise to power, developed the concept…
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