Stigma (eBook)

The Machinery of Inequality

Imogen Tyler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
416 Seiten
Zed Books (Verlag)
978-1-78699-332-8 (ISBN)

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Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Greece, to modern day discrimination against Muslims, refugees and the 'undeserving poor', stigma has long been a means of securing the interests of powerful elites.In this radical reconceptualisation Tyler precisely and passionately outlines the political function of stigma as an instrument of state coercion. Through an original social and economic reframing of the history of stigma, Tyler reveals stigma as a political practice, illuminating previously forgotten histories of resistance against stigmatization, boldly arguing that these histories provide invaluable insights for understanding the rise of authoritarian forms of government today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Austerity • Black Power • boarder control • Capitalism • Chavs • Colonialism • dependency culture • Far Right • Financial Crisis • migrant activism • neoliberal Britain • Owen Jones • Patriarchy • Paul Mason • Poverty • Racism • right wing • scroungers • white working class
• ISBN-10: 1-78699-332-5 / 1786993325
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-332-8 / 9781786993328