Imogen Tyler

Publications

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Books

  • Tyler, I. (2020) Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality, London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781786993304 · DOI: 10.5040/9781350222809
    Paperback edition: Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 9781350379275
    Left Book Club edition (Left Book Club book of the month), 2021
  • Tyler, I. (2013) Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain. London: Zed Books/Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781848138513 · DOI: 10.5040/9781350222359

Edited books

  • Tyler, I. and Slater, T. eds. (2018) The Sociology of Stigma, Sociological Review Monograph. London: Sage. Publisher page
  • Marciniak, K. and Tyler, I. eds. (2014) Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent. New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 9781438453118 · Publisher page
  • Tyler, I. and Marciniak, K. eds. (2014) Protesting Citizenship: Migrant Activisms. New York, London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415728645 · DOI: 10.4324/9781315089393

Edited journal special issues

  • Tyler, I. & Slater, T. (eds.) (2018) ‘The Sociology of Stigma’, London: Sage [published as a monograph & as a peer-reviewed special issue]
  • Tyler, I. & Marciniak, K. (eds.) (2013) ‘Immigrant Protest.’ Special issue of Citizenship Studies 17 (2).
  • Jensen, T., & Tyler, I. (eds.) (2012) ‘Austerity Parenting.’ Special issue of Studies in the Maternal.
  • Tyler, I. and Gatrell, C. (eds.) (2009) ‘Birth.’ Special issue of Feminist Review, 93.

Journal articles

  • Ellis, A., Garlick, B., Severs, G. J., Strange, J.-M., Taylor, Y., Tindley, A., Tyler, I. & Whistler, C. (2026) ‘Rural inequalities in Britain: undisciplining rural histories: connected histories and collaborative methods.’ Rural History. ISSN 0956-7933 DOI: 10.1017/S0956793326100351
  • Tyler, I. and Skeggs, B. (2026), ‘A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life.’ Antipode, 58: e70108. DOI: 10.1111/anti.70108
  • Tyler, I. (2025). ‘Lancaster Black History Group: Anti-Racist Education after BLM.’ Ethnic and Racial Studies, special issue on Antiracism, 20pp. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2025.2535766
  • Tyler, I. (2018) ‘Deportation Nation.’ Journal for the Study of British Cultures. 25(1): 25-41
  • Tyler, I. (2018) ‘Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power.’ Sociological Review. 66 (4): 744-765. DOI: 10.1177/0038026118777450
  • Tyler, I. & Slater, T. (2018) ‘Rethinking the Sociology of Stigma.’ The Sociological Review. 66 (4): 721-743. DOI: 10.1177/0038026118777425
  • Tyler, I. (2018) ‘The Hieroglyphics of the Border: Racial Stigma in Neoliberal Europe.’ Ethnic and Racial Studies. 41 (10): 1783-1801 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1361542
  • McNicholas Smith, K. M. and Tyler, I. (2017) ‘Lesbian brides: post-queer popular culture.’ Feminist Media Studies. 17 (3): 315-331 DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2017.1282883
  • Roberts, C., Tyler, I., Satchwell, C. and Armstrong, J. (2016) ‘Health social movements and the hybridisation of “cause regimes”: an ethnography of a British childbirth organisation.’ Social Movement Studies. 15 (4): 417-430. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2016.1149058
  • Tyler, I. (2015) ‘Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times.’ The Sociological Review, 63(2): 493–511. DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12296
  • Jensen, T. and Tyler, I. (2015) ‘Benefits broods: the cultural and political crafting of anti-welfare commonsense.’ Critical Social Policy, 35 (4): 470-491. DOI: 10.1177/0261018315600835
  • Gill, N., Conlon, D., Oeppen, C. and Tyler, I. (2015). ‘How Close is too Close? Proximity to the State and the Geographies of Interactivism among Asylum Seeker Support Organisations.’ ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
  • Tyler, I. Gill, N., Conlon, D., and Oeppen, C. (2014) ‘The business of child detention: charitable co-option, migrant advocacy and activist outrage.’ Race & Class 56 (1): 3-21. DOI: 10.1177/0306396814531690
  • Allen, K., Tyler, I., and De Benedictis, S. (2014) ‘Thinking with White Dee: The Gender Politics of Austerity Porn.’ Sociological Research Online 19 (3), 2. DOI: 10.5153/sro.3439
  • Gill, N., Conlon, D., Tyler, I., and Oeppen, C. (2014) ‘The tactics of asylum and irregular migrant support groups: Disrupting bodily, technological, and neoliberal strategies of control’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104 (2): 373-381. DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.857544
  • Conlon, D., Gill, N., Tyler, I., and Oeppen, C. (2014) ‘Impact as Odyssey.’ ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies, 13(1): 33-38.
  • Tyler, I. (2013) ‘The Riots of the Underclass?: Stigmatisation, Mediation and the Government of Poverty and Disadvantage in Neoliberal Britain.’ Sociological Research Online, 18 (4) DOI: 10.5153/sro.3157
  • Tyler, I. and Gill, R. (2013) ‘Postcolonial Girl: Mediated intimacy and migrant audibility.’ Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 15 (1): 78-94. DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2013.771008
  • Tyler, I. (2013) ‘“Naked Protest”: The maternal politics of citizenship and revolt.’ Citizenship Studies, 17 (2): 211-226. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2013.780742
  • Tyler, I. & Marciniak, K. (2013) ‘Immigrant Protest.’ Citizenship Studies, 17 (2): 143-156. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2013.780728
  • Tyler, I. & Baraitser, L. (2013) ‘Private View, Public Birth: Making Feminist Sense of the New Visual Culture of Childbirth.’ Studies in the Maternal, 5 (2), 1. DOI: 10.16995/sim.18
  • Jensen, T. & Tyler, I. (2012) ‘Austerity Parenting: new economies of parent-citizenship.’ Studies in the Maternal 4(2) 1 DOI: 10.16995/sim.34
  • Baraitser, L. & Tyler, I. (2010) ‘Talking of Mothers.’ Soundings, 44 (Spring): 117-127 DOI: 10.3898/136266210791036827
  • Tyler, I. & Bennett, B. (2010) ‘Celebrity Chav: Fame, femininity and social class.’ European Journal of Cultural Studies (13) 3: 375-393. DOI: 10.1177/1367549410363203
  • Tyler, I. (2010) ‘Designed to Fail: A Biopolitics of British Citizenship.’ Citizenship Studies 14 (1): 61-74. DOI: 10.1080/13621020903466357
  • Tyler, I. (2010) ‘Troubling Mothers.’ Studies in the Maternal, 2 (1). DOI: 10.16995/sim.171
  • Tyler, I. (2009) ‘Birth.’ Feminist Review 93: 1-7. DOI: 10.1057/fr.2009.29
  • Tyler, I. & Clements, J. (2009) ‘The Taboo Aesthetics of the Birth Scene.’ Feminist Review 93: 134-137 DOI: 10.1057/fr.2009.34
  • Tyler, I. (2009) ‘Against Abjection.’ Feminist Theory 10 (1): 77-98. DOI: 10.1177/1464700108100393
  • Tyler, I. (2009) ‘Why the Maternal Now?’ Studies in the Maternal 1 (1). DOI: 10.16995/sim.167
  • Tyler, I. (2008) ‘“Chav Mum, Chav Scum”: Class disgust in contemporary Britain.’ Feminist Media Studies 8 (1): 17-34. DOI: 10.1080/14680770701824779
  • Tyler, I. (2008) ‘Methodological Fatigue: The politics of “the affective turn”.’ Feminist Media Studies 8 (1): 85-90. DOI: 10.1080/14680770801899226
    Reprinted as Tyler, I. (2008) ‘Methodological Fatigue: The politics of “the affective turn”.’ In C. Hughes (ed.), (2012) Researching Gender (Fundamentals of Applied Research), London: Sage.
  • Tyler, I. (2007) ‘From “the Me Decade” to “the Me Millennium”: The cultural history of narcissism’ International Journal of Cultural Studies 10 (3): 343 – 363. DOI: 10.1177/1367877907080148
    Translated as Tyler, I. (2022) ‘De la “décennie du moi” au “millénium du moi”: Une histoire culturelle du narcissisme aux États-Unis.’ Le Temps des medias, Nov: 53-72 DOI: 10.3917/tdm.038.0053
  • Tyler, I. (2007) ‘The Selfish Feminist: Public images of women’s liberation.’ Australian Feminist Studies 22 (53): 173-190. DOI: 10.1080/08164640701361758
  • Tyler, I. (2006) ‘Chav Scum: The filthy politics of social class in contemporary Britain.’ M/C Journal 9 (5) DOI: 10.5204/mcj.2671
  • Tyler, I. (2006) ‘“Welcome to Britain”: The cultural politics of asylum.’ European Journal of Cultural Studies 9 (2): 185-202. DOI: 10.1177/1367549406063163
  • Tyler, I. (2006) ‘Colonized Feeling.’ Oxford Literary Review 28: 155-170. DOI: 10.3366/olr.2006.014
  • Tyler, I. (2005) ‘Who put the “Me” in feminism? The Sexual Politics of Narcissism.’ Feminist Theory. 6 (1): 25-44. DOI: 10.1177/1464700105050225
  • Tyler, I. and Loizidou, E. (2000) ‘The Promise of Berlant: An interview.’ Cultural Values 4 (4): 497-511. DOI: 10.1080/14797580009367213

Book chapters

  • Tyler, I., (2026) ‘Enclosures and the Making of Modern Britain’. The Modern World After Colonialism: Remaking the Social Sciences, eds. Gurminder Bhambra et al. Bristol University Press: 70-84. DOI: 10.51952/9781529252149.ch005
  • Jensen, T. and Tyler, I, (2018) ‘Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain’. Parenting the Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Parent-Blame, Policy Press: 143-163. DOI: 10.51952/9781447325079.ch006
  • Borcila, R., Marciniak, K. and Tyler, I. (2014) ‘Interview with Rozalinda Borcila.’ Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics and Everyday Dissent. New York: SUNY Press: 45-62. DOI: 10.2307/jj.18472995.8
  • Tyler, I. and Simic, L. (2014) ‘Becoming British: Exploring citizenship through arts practice.’ Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics and Everyday Dissent. New York: SUNY Press: 63-80. DOI: 10.2307/jj.18472995.9
  • Marciniak, K. and Tyler, I. (2014) ‘Immigrant Protest and the Politics of Invisibility.’ Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent. New York: SUNY Press: 1-24. DOI: 10.2307/jj.18472995.6
  • Tyler, I. and Marciniak, K. (2014) ‘The Human Waste Disposal Industry or Immigrant Protest in Neoliberal Times.’ Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent. New York: SUNY Press: 277-290. DOI: 10.2307/jj.18472995.20
  • Conlon, D., Gill, N., Tyler, I., and Oeppen, C. (2014). ‘Going public: Reflections on predicaments and possibilities in public research and scholarship.’ The Entrepreneurial University: Public Engagements, Intersecting Impacts, London: Palgrave: 185-202. DOI: 10.1057/9781137275875_11
  • Tyler, I. (2011) ‘Pramfaced Girls: The class politics of “Maternal TV”.’ In B. Skeggs and H. Woods (eds.) Reality Television and Class. London: BFI: 210-224. DOI: 10.5040/9781839028564.ch-015
  • Tyler, I. (2011) ‘Pregnant Beauty: Maternal femininities under neoliberalism.’ In R. Gill and C. Scharff (eds.) New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Identity. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave: 21-36 DOI: 10.1057/9780230294523_2
  • Tyler, I. (2008) ‘Class Disgust.’ In M. Greco and P. Stenner (eds.) Emotions: A Social Science Reader. London: Routledge. 480-490
  • Bennett, B. and Tyler, I. (2007) ‘Screening Unliveable Lives: The cinema of borders.’ In A. Imre, K. Marciniak and Á. O’Healy (eds.) Transnational Feminist Encounters in Film and Media. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 21-36 DOI: 10.1057/9780230609655_2
  • Tyler, I. (2001) ‘Skin-tight: Celebrity, pregnancy and subjectivity.’ In S. Ahmed and J. Stacey (eds.) Thinking Through the Skin. London and New York: Routledge: 69-83
  • Tyler, I. (2000) ‘Reframing Pregnant Embodiment.’ In S. Ahmed, C. Lury, J. Kilby, M. McNeil and B. Skeggs (eds.) Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism. London and New York: Routledge: 288-301

Graphic essay

  • Tyler, I. (words) & Bailey C. (images) (2018), From Stigma Power to Black Power. Sociological Review Foundation. [50 pages]. Read online

Teaching resources

  • Harris, L, Onek, G. & Tyler, I. (2024) ‘Seeking Freedom: 18th-Century Black Lives in Northern England.’ Key Stage 2 Teaching Booklet, [37 pages] Download

Research and policy reports

  • Tyler, I. & Campbell, S. (2024). ‘Poverty stigma: a glue that holds poverty in place.’ Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Read the report
  • Tyler, I. (2018) ‘Foreword to ‘“Being for when everyone is against!” Building Community Support for Refugees and Migrants.’ Mladinski center Trbovlje, Global Link Lancaster LTD, Stowarzyszenie Rozwoju i Integracji Mlodziezy, Toplum Gonulluleri Vakfi, Erasmus +
  • Tyler, I. (2015) ‘Being Poor is Not Entertainment: Class Struggles Against Poverty Porn.’ Social Action and Research Foundation.
  • Tyler, I. & Bennett, B. (2015) ‘Against aspiration: What is aspiration? How progressives should respond.’ London: The Centre for Labour and Social Studies
  • Asylum-Network (D. Conlon, N. Gill, A. Hall & I. Tyler) (2014) Written submission of evidence to 2014 Parliamentary Inquiry into Immigration Detention.
  • Gill, N., Conlon, D., Oeppen, C., and Tyler, I. (2012) ‘Networks of Asylum Advocacy: Sharing ideas, strategies and best practice amongst UK and US asylum support groups in a challenging social and economic climate.’ ESRC Research Report.
  • Satchwell, C., Roberts, C. and Tyler, I., (2011) ‘European Patient Organizations in Knowledge Society: Case study of the National Childbirth Trust, UK.’ EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Research Report.
  • Tyler, I., Roberts, C. and Satchwell, C. (2011) ‘Health Activism in Europe today: Preliminary findings of European patient organisations in a knowledge society.’ EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Research Report.

Art catalogue essays

  • Harris, L. & Tyler, I. (2023) ‘Lela Harris in conversation with Imogen Tyler.’ Facing the Past: Black Lancastrians, eds. Alan Rice and Jenny Webster: 22-27 ISBN 9781739433802
  • Tyler, I. (2016) ‘80 years of war against workfare.’ The Precariat, The NewBridge Project.
  • Bennett, B. & Tyler, I. (2014) ‘The art of disobedience.’ The Institute for the Art & Practice of Dissent at Home 2008-2013. Liverpool: The Institute.
  • Tyler, I. & Baraitser, L. (2013) ‘From Abjection to Natality: Some Thoughts on Helen Knowles’ YouTube Portraits.’ in Helen Knowles: Private View: Public Birth, London: GV Art
  • Tyler, I. & Morris-Colton, B. (2012) ‘The Lie of the Land.’ An essay to accompany the art exhibition Dark Corners of the Land.
  • Tyler, I. (2011) ‘British Citizenship: A short alternative history.’ In L. Šimic and J. Verson (eds.) Becoming British. British Arts Council
  • Tyler, I. (2009) ‘Maternal Matters: The Political Aesthetic of Lena Šimic.’ Maternal Matters and Other Sisters. The Arts Council: 6-10

Book reviews

  • Tyler, I. (2015) ‘Dis/ability studies: theorising disablism and ableism.’ Disability and Society, 30 (4): 659-662 DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1014669
  • Tyler, I. (2010) ‘Maternal Encounters: The ethics of interruption.’ Subjectivity, 3 (4): 442–445 DOI: 10.1057/sub.2010.19
  • Tyler, I. (2007) ‘Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, experience, and reproductive labour.’ Feminist Theory, 8 (1): 132-1344 DOI: 10.1177/146470010700800121

Articles and blogs (selected)