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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…
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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,…
