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“Chav Mum Chav Scum”
- Imogen Tyler
- Art
- 1 March 2008
In the last three years a new vocabulary of social class has emerged in Britain. The word “chav,” alongside its various synonyms and regional variations, has become a ubiquitous term of abuse for the…
Imogen Tyler, Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
- Imogen Tyler
- Economics, History
- 11 April 2013
Table of Contents Introduction: Revolting Subjects Chapter One: Social Abjection Chapter Two: The Abject Politics of British Citizenship Chapter Three: The Asylum Invasion Complex Chapter Four: Naked…
Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times
- Imogen Tyler
- Economics
- 1 May 2015
The problem that the concept of ‘class’ describes is inequality. The transition from industrial to financial capitalism (neoliberalism) in Europe has effected ‘deepening inequalities of income,…
Rethinking the sociology of stigma
- Imogen Tyler, T. Slater
- SociologyThe Sociological Review
- 12 June 2018
Stigma is not a self-evident phenomenon but like all concepts has a history. The conceptual understanding of stigma which underpins most sociological research has its roots in the ground-breaking…
‘Celebrity chav’: Fame, femininity and social class
- Imogen Tyler, B. Bennett
- Sociology
- 1 August 2010
This article argues that celebrity is an increasingly significant means by which reactionary class attitudes, allegiances and judgements are communicated. In contradistinction to claims that the…
Immigrant protest: an introduction
- Imogen Tyler, K. Marciniak
- Political Science
- 1 April 2013
The last decade has witnessed an explosion of ‘immigrant protests’, political mobilizations by irregular migrants and pro-migrant activists. This special issue on ‘immigrant protest’ has emerged in…
The Riots of the Underclass?: Stigmatisation, Mediation and the Government of Poverty and Disadvantage in Neoliberal Britain
- Imogen Tyler
- History, Political Science
- 1 November 2013
The riots in England in August 2011 comprised one of the most significant events of civil unrest in recent British history. A consensus rapidly emerged, notably within political commentary, print…
‘Benefits broods’: The cultural and political crafting of anti-welfare commonsense
- T. Jensen, Imogen Tyler
- Economics
- 25 August 2015
In the aftermath of the global banking crises, a political economy of permanent state austerity has emerged, driven by and legitimated through a hardening anti-welfare commonsense. We argue that,…
Pregnant Beauty : maternal femininities under neoliberalism.
- Imogen Tyler
- Art
- 2011
Since the mid-1990s there has been an extraordinary proliferation of representations of maternity within popular culture, arts, literature, politics, consumer culture and ‘everyday life’. The…
Designed to fail: A biopolitics of British citizenship
- Imogen Tyler
- Sociology
- 1 February 2010
Tracing a route through the recent ‘ugly history’ of British citizenship, this article advances two central claims. Firstly, British citizenship has been designed to fail specific groups and…
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