Tag: capitalism
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‘Hanging Town, Haunted City: Researching Connected Sociologies of Colonial Capitalism in Place’ (archived from December 2021).
Annual Lecture for North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership, Professor Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University In June 2020, hundreds gathered in Lancaster’s Dalton Square to participate in a vigil in response to the Black Lives Matter uprisings. Over the weeks that followed, the protests focused on Lancaster ‘s St George’s Quay, (where Lancaster Slave Ships…
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Revolting Subjects Redux
Revolting: Verb: The action of revolt; apostasy; rebellion, insurrection; Adjective: That [which] evokes revulsion; repulsive, disgusting. Noun: That which is revolting; revoltingness. (abridged from the Oxford English Dictionary, 2012) A decade ago I published my first sole authored book, Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (2013). The forms of social violence, disenfranchisement,…
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Decolonising Lancaster: a Preliminary Resource List for local teachers and community groups working on Lancaster’s Slavery and Plantation histories
This photograph depicts the Rawlinson’s Family Memorial Grave Stone, which sits just outside the front of Lancaster Priory and was defaced in June 2020, as part of Black Lives Matter Protests in Lancaster. Rev. Canon Chris Newlands commented on the defacement of this memorial “We can’t remove our history, but we want to make sure the city…
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‘Colonise at home!’ Paupers, Serfs, Slaves and the making of the English State
I am continuing to blog some extracts from my new book, of Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality. I have chosen this extract as it is also one of the starting points for my current project on “Decolonising Lancaster” and the histories of slavery and plantation labour which shaped this small city in Lancashire. This extract…
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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.
Professor Imogen Tyler 