The Stigma Conversations
Sociologist Imogen Tyler meets inspirational activists, academics and frontline workers to talk about Stigma - how it’s created, how it divides us, who it serves and how we might resist. Intimate and urgent conversations on poverty and power, racism and resistance, solidarity and hope. From one of the UK’s leading activist scholars.
Podcasting since 2023 • 6 episodes
The Stigma Conversations
Latest Episodes
Apocalypse and change. With GP Andy Knox
“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 T...
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Episode 5
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Doing Anti-Racism. With Geraldine Onek and Jasmine Patel
How are racism and stigma power linked? How can education empower us to face the past and tell new stories? And why must we break historical silences? Sociologist Imogen Tyler talks to fellow activists from Lancaster Black History Group, formed...
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Episode 4
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Poverty Emergency! With Helen Greatorex
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: ...
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Episode 3
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Tattooing and Resistance. With Alice Bloch
Stigma is nothing new. In Ancient Greece the word meant ‘tattoo’ and referred to writing on people’s skin as a means of punishment and control. Recognising that, says sociologist Imogen Tyler, is a game changer; it means we can start thinking a...
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Why Stigma? With Michaela Benson
What’s missing from mainstream thinking on stigma? And why must we confront power, politics and history if we are to fight dehumanisation and shame? Imogen Tyler, author of "Stigma, The Machinery of Inequality", tells friend and fellow ...
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