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Austerity UK: The Enclosure of the Welfare Commons
This is an extract from Chapter 4 ‘The Stigma Machine of Austerity’. The theme of enclosures runs through Stigma. One of the arguments of this chapter is that austerity should be understood as a form of capitalist enclosure. Enclosures of land, resources, people, are often lubricated by stigma. It is easier to take bread from the mouths…
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Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality, a short animated film
Thanks to Tom Morris (and also bow & arrow who did the sound design) for this short animated film. Below is the text spoken in the film which is taken from the Introduction of the book. palerlotus.tumblr.com(opens in a new tab) The word stigma, as the dictionary defines it, is a mark of disgrace which is pressed…
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Misogyny and stigma
In this short extract from Chapter One ‘the Penal History of Stigma’ from Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality I tease out some historical threads to illustrate the entanglement of stigma and patriarchal systems of discipline and punishment. —————- In Women and Power: A Manifesto (2017), Mary Beard teaches us that women of all social classes…
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The ancient penal history of stigma
One of the first recorded uses of the word ‘stigma’ appears in a fragment of sixth-century BC poetry written by Asius of Samos, who uses the word stigmatias to describe ‘a marked slave’; and slaves are henceforth regularly and scornfully referred to with words such as literati (lettered), stigmatici (tattooed), inscripti (inscribed), and graptoi (written…
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Stigma: Letters of Blood and Fire
the catastrophe of slavery was written on the skin – with stigmata that transformed human beings into property, into things, into commodities, and into guineas.
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Shame is already a revolution of a kind
Extracted from a letter from Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge, March 1843. From a series of letters written by Marx, age 25, to his friend Arnold Ruge. Marx and Ruge would later include the full eight-letter exchange in the first and only edition of the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, in February 1844.
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“Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality” (updated extract from Introduction)
Every news bulletin seemed to be calling me scrounger, fraud, cheat or scum. I began self-harming, carving the words ‘failure’, ‘freak’ and ‘waste of space’ into my arms, legs and stomach. Stephanie, 2019
Professor Imogen Tyler 