Imogen Tyler

I det sista av tre migrationsnummer pratar Trifa Shakely och Mara Lee med löständer i munnen, Fabrizio Gatti blickar tillbaka på tio års flyktingkatastrofer, Lawrence Abu Hamdan kartlägger språktester, Seyla Benhabib kritiserar det humanitära förnuftet, Ann-Marie Tung Hermelin läser sin mammas brev, Lene Myong utvärderar dansk kärlek, Lidija Praizovic söker jobb som aerobicsinstruktör, Doug Saunders rapporterar från historiens största migration, Leila Brännström söker den svenska rasismens hjärta och Alejandro Leiva Wenger frågar sig om han måste ställa frågor. Med mera.

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.

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.