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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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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…
Professor Imogen Tyler 