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Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection
in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people
are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their
abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number of high-profile
and in-depth case studies - including 'chavs', asylum seekers,
Gypsies and Travellers, and the 2011 London riots - to examine the
ways in which individuals negotiate restrictive neoliberal
ideologies of selfhood. In doing so, Tyler argues for a deeper
psychosocial understanding of the role of representational forms in
producing marginality, social exclusion and injustice, whilst also
detailing how stigmatization and scapegoating are resisted through
a variety of aesthetic and political strategies. Imaginative and
original, Revolting Subjects introduces a range of new insights
into neoliberal societies, and will be essential reading for those
concerned about widening inequalities, growing social unrest and
social justice in the wider global context.
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.
What does it mean to state 'No One is Illegal?'. This rallying call
is what unifies migrant protests against exclusionary border
regimes around the world, bringing migrants, citizens, `legal` and
`illegal` people onto the streets in ever greater numbers. Indeed,
the last decade has witnessed an explosion of immigrant protests,
political mobilizations by irregular migrants and pro-migrant
activists. This edited collection aims to contribute to the growing
body of scholarship on migrant resistance movements and to consider
the implications of these struggles for critical understandings of
citizenship and borders. It offers a rich series of theoretical and
political interventions which together explore the tensions between
integrationist and autonomous approaches, and between migrant and
activist strategies of invisibility and visibility. By bringing
immigrant protests to the heart of debates about citizenship, it
also extends discussions about the limits and the possibilities of
citizenship as the material and conceptual horizon of critical
social analysis, political participation and democracy today. This
book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
What does it mean to state 'No One is Illegal?'. This rallying call
is what unifies migrant protests against exclusionary border
regimes around the world, bringing migrants, citizens, 'legal' and
'illegal' people onto the streets in ever greater numbers. Indeed,
the last decade has witnessed an explosion of immigrant protests,
political mobilizations by irregular migrants and pro-migrant
activists. This edited collection aims to contribute to the growing
body of scholarship on migrant resistance movements and to consider
the implications of these struggles for critical understandings of
citizenship and borders. It offers a rich series of theoretical and
political interventions which together explore the tensions between
integrationist and autonomous approaches, and between migrant and
activist strategies of invisibility and visibility. By bringing
immigrant protests to the heart of debates about citizenship, it
also extends discussions about the limits and the possibilities of
citizenship as the material and conceptual horizon of critical
social analysis, political participation and democracy today. This
book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
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