Category: Writing
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Elemental Inequalities: New Research Project
This autumn I began a year as CORE Professorial Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, working on a new project, Elemental Inequalities.
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Social Abjection, Disposable Lives and the Politics of Disgust
Social abjection is a ‘revolting concept’ which names but also has the capacity to trouble the symbolic and material forms of violence it describes. It is by employing revolts against abjection as a map or guide that Revolting Subjects attempts to breach open the dustbin of history. The insurgencies of those designated as abject— enable us to…
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Connor Sparrowhawk: the erosion of accountability in the NHS
Imogen Tyler. Re-posted from Open Democracy. Originally published on 4 February 2016. “For me, it’s not a question of saying the NHS is ‘safe in my hands’. Of course it will be. My family is so often in the hands of the NHS. And I want them to be safe there. Tony Blair once explained…
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Democratic Fascism
Imogen Tyler. Reposted from The Sociological Review. Originally published on 21 November 2016. If we are to keep the enormity of the forces aligned against us from establishing a false hierarchy of oppression, we must school ourselves to recognize that any attack against Blacks, any attack against women, is an attack against all of us…
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In a world of commonplace horrors, how do we talk about the refugee crisis?
Imogen Tyler & Jenna Loyd. Reposted from Open Democracy. Originally published on 1 December 2015. This is my family.Baba, mama, baby all washed up on the shore. This is 28 shoeless survivors and thousands of bodies.Bodies Syrian, Bodies Somali, Bodies Afghan, Bodies Ethiopian, Bodies Eritrean.Bodies Palestinian. Jehan Bseiso, “No Search, No Rescue”, 2015. Ursula Le Guin’s…
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Wasted lives in UK immigration detention
Imogen Tyler. Re-posted from Open Democracy. Originally published on 2 October 2013. 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 outsourcing giant SERCO. Yarl’s Wood is a human waste…
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From Tottenham to Baltimore, policing crisis starts race to the bottom for justice
Imogen Tyler & Jenna Llyod. Re-posted from The Conversation. Originally published on 1 May 2015. West Baltimore, 8.39 am April 12: Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, stood on the street talking with friends. Police officers approached on bicycles and made “eye contact” with Gray, who then attempted to leave. The police chased him and…
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The Stigma Politics of Caste
This extract from ‘The Penal Tatoo’, chapter one of Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality, argues that the stigma politics of caste is particularly instructive for understanding how power is inscribed on the body, and the ways in which stigma power is entangled with histories of racial and colonial capitalism. ‘Even after two decades, the sound…
