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A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life
[S]ome lives are breathable, others are suffocating; for many, keeping on breathing is a matter of daily struggle. (Górska 2016:24) Preface: Awaab Couldn't Breathe Awaab Ishak took his last breath on 21 December 2020 just eight days after celebrating his second birthday. Awaab's breathing had been laboured for some time. On the morning of 21 December, Awaab's parents, Faisal Abdullah and Aisha Ami, took him to Rochdale Urgent Care Centre (North-West England) in acute respiratory distress.
Imogen Tyler, author at Social Europe
Survey on EU elections in 10 countries: participation opportunities at work and good working conditions positive for democratic climate For this new study by the Hans Böckler Foundation's Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), around 15,000 employees and jobseekers in ten EU countries were surveyed. The study sends out three messages.
The destitution that sets the UK apart from Europe
Social stigma against welfare benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain. Britain is in a poverty crisis. Over 14 million people (one in five) are living in poverty. Of these, four million, including one million children, are classed as destitute—regularly unable to meet basic needs for shelter, warmth, food and clothing. Cuts to the welfare state over the last decade have contributed to a deepening of poverty in Britain not seen in any of its European neighbours.
Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain
Britain is in a poverty crisis. Over 14 million people (1 in 5) are living in poverty. Of these, 4 million, including 1 million children, are classed as destitute: regularly unable to meet basic needs for shelter, warmth, food and clothing. Cuts to the welfare state over the last decade have contributed to a deepening of poverty in Britain not seen in any of its European neighbors.
Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain
By Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University Britain is in a poverty crisis. Over 14 million people (one in five) are living in poverty. Of these, 4 million, including 1 million children, are classed as destitute: regularly unable to meet basic needs for shelter, warmth, food and clothing. Cuts to the welfare state over the last decade have contributed to a Read complete article © The Conversation -
Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain Original
Britain is in a poverty crisis. Over 14 million people (one in five) are living in poverty. Of these, 4 million, including 1 million children, are classed as destitute: regularly unable to meet basic needs for shelter, warmth, food and clothing. Cuts to the welfare state over the last decade have contributed to a deepening of poverty in Britain not seen in any of its European neighbours.
How Benefits Stigma Deepens Britain's Poverty Crisis
I Wei Huang/Shutterstock Britain is in a poverty crisis. Over 14 million people (one in five) are living in poverty. Of these, 4 million, including 1 million children, are classed as destitute: regularly unable to meet basic needs for shelter, warmth, food and clothing. Cuts to the welfare state over the last decade have contributed to a deepening of poverty in Britain not seen in any of its European neighbours.
The Stigma Conversations: On poverty and power, racism and resistance, solidarity and hope.
What is stigma? Who does it serve? And how does it shape our world broken by poverty, prejudice, and injustice? In The Stigma Conversations, leading sociologist Imogen Tyler meets inspirational academics, activists and frontline workers to show that while stigma is most certainly about feelings and experiences, it’s also about power, politics and history. We are in a state of emergency, and we need to take action, now.
Poverty Emergency! With Helen Greatorex
About Food banks. Fuel poverty. Heating vs Eating. Why has poverty become the new normal in the UK, accepted as “just the way it is” in one of the world’s richest countries? Stigma, says sociologist Imogen Tyler, has been part of this normalisation: it’s dehumanised some of society’s vulnerable people, devaluing lives and destroying compassion to boot. Helen Greatorex, Chief Officer at North Lancashire Citizens Advice, tells Imogen what she’s seen working on the welfare frontline over the years.
Apocalypse and change. With GP Andy Knox
About “Change can happen. Change has happened…” Poverty makes us unwell. GP Andy Knox sees this in his North Lancashire consulting room, meeting people whose lives could improve if stigma and destitution went away. He tells sociologist Imogen Tyler about the burnout facing doctors and frontline workers trying to care for their communities on scant resources, and reflects on how we need to ask “bigger deeper questions” about what’s making our society sick.
Decolonising Lancaster: a Preliminary Resource List for local teachers and community groups working on Lancaster’s Slavery and Plantation histories
Lancaster slave trading family, Rawlinson’s Family Grave Stone was defaced in 2020, as part of Black Lives Matter Protests in the City. As well as being slave traders, the Rawlinson’s owned the Goyave Plantation in Granada and were involved in several Liverpool slave trading partnerships.
‘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.
Stigma
Back — Stigma — £ $ £ $ The Machinery of Inequality Imogen Tyler A radical new theory of the political function of stigma with which to better understand and resist the rise of authoritarian capitalism. Overview Author Bio Table of Contents Reviews Details Description Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed.
Misogyny and stigma
In this short extract from Chapter One ‘the Penal History of Stigma’ from Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality I tease out some historical threads to illustrate the entanglement of stigma and patriarchal systems of discipline and punishment. —————- In Women and Power: A Manifesto (2017), Mary Beard teaches us that women of all social classes were barred from (full) citizenship in the [Ancient] Graeco-Roman world.
Anti-Racist Bystander Intervention - #againsthate
Racism is a social issue which we ALL need to address. This is a small preliminary collection of online resources gathered by Dr Alison Phipps, myself and others which offers various kinds of advice on what you can do if you are witness to hate speech, (I am writing this with race hate in mind, but applies also to sexist, gender-based or disablist hate speech).
"Chav Mum, Chav Scum" : class disgust in contemporary Britain.
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 white poor. This article explores the emergence of the grotesque and comic figure of the chav within a range of contemporary British media focusing on the role played by disgust reactions in the generation and circulation of the chav figure through popular media.
Democratic Fascism
“If we are to keep the enormity of the forces aligned against us from establishing a false hierarchy of oppression, we must school ourselves to recognize that any attack against Blacks, any attack against women, is an attack against all of us who recognize that our interests are not being served by the systems we support.” The election of Donald Trump as 45th US President ‘is an extinction-level event’.
In a world of commonplace horrors, how do we talk about the refugee crisis?
All summer, the news has broadcast images of overloaded boats, discarded life-jackets, and dead children on Mediterranean beaches. When the violence of inequality becomes ordinary, we no longer imagine alternatives. Ursula Le Guin’s dystopian novel The Dispossessed (1974) is set on a moon called Anarres, where an anarchist community established itself after breaking away from the capitalist mother-planet Urras.
From Tottenham to Baltimore, policing crisis starts race to the bottom for justice
What is it about the police and urban black populations in the US and the UK? The explanation starts with two of the most stretched social hierarchies in the developed world. West Baltimore, 8.39 am 12 April: Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, stood on the street talking with friends. Police officers approached on bicycles and made 'eye contact' with Gray, who then attempted to leave.
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