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Dr Imogen Tyler

Lecturer in Sociology

Degree: PhD (Lancaster) MA (Cardiff) BA (Bolton)

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP)

Current Teaching

UG admissions tutor for the Sociology Department (with Dr Celia Roberts and Dr Claire Waterton). Please note that I am on sabbatical leave from mid-August-Jan 2010. Please send admissions enquires to c.waterton@lancs.ac.uk.

Sociology 230: Bodies in Society

Sociology 314: Feminism and Social Change

WS 403 Feminist Cultural Theory and Practice

Visual Methods and Analysis on FASS 513 doctoral training course Analysing Qualitative Data

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I welcome PhD applications in any of my areas of research. Please feel free to contact me to discuss preliminary ideas for PhD proposals or postdoctoral applications.

PhD students

Kate McNicholas Smith Empowering Sexual Citizens: Designing and Delivering Sex Education for Contemporary Adolescents (ESRC 1 plus 3)

Brigit Colson Arts in Mental Health Provision (ESRC 1 plus 3)

Maja Sager `Clandestine asylum seekers in the Swedish welfare state' (visiting PhD student,The Centre for Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden 2008-2009).

Kirsty Stevenson Animating Gender (AHRC)

Dr Katherine Harrison: 'Terror-Democracy: An Iconography' (Graduated 2008, AHRC)

Dr. Fiona Summers: `Unanticipated Space: Embodied Encounters in Contemporary Visual Culture` (Graduated 2006, AHRC)

Publications

Editorial board:

The European Journal of Cultural Studies

Sociological Research Online

Studies in The Maternal

Published Work (scroll to end for current writing projects)

Edited Collections

Guest-editorship (2009) Special Issue: Feminist Review. Issue Topic: 'Birth'. (with Caroline Gatrell and Irene Gedalof). Issue 93.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Baraitser, L., and I. Tyler, (under review) 'Talking of Mothers'

Tyler I (in press) 'Introduction: Birth' Feminist Review 93.

Tyler, I. (in press) `Designed to Fail: a biopolitics of British Citizenship`Citizenship Studies

Tyler, I. (in press) `Pregnant Beauties: Maternal Femininities under Neoliberalism ` in Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff (eds.) New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Identity. Palgrave.

Tyler, I. (2009) `Maternal Matters: The Political Aesthetic of Lena Šimić' Arts Council Catalogue.

Tyler I with J. Clements (in press) `The Taboo Aesthetics of the Birth Scene' Feminist Review, 93.

Tyler, I. and B. Bennett (in press) `Celebrity Chav: Fame, Femininity and Social Class' European Journal of Cultural Studies

Tyler, I. (2009) 'Against Abjection' Feminist Theory 10 (1): 77-98 (http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/1/77)

Tyler, I. (2009) 'Why the Maternal Now?' Studies in the Maternal 1 (1).

Tyler, I. (2008) '"Chav Mum, Chav Scum": Class Disgust in Contemporary Britain' Feminist Media Studies 8 (1): 17-34

Tyler, I. (2008) `Methodological Fatigue: The Politics of 'The Affective Turn', Feminist Media Studies 8 (1): 85-90

Tyler, I. (2008) `Meanwhile at the borders...' The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), online at http://blog.theasa.org/?cat=49

Tyler, I. (2008) 'Class Disgust' in Monica Greco and Paul Stenner (eds.) Emotions : A Social Science Reader, Routledge: New York, London.

Tyler, I. (2007) 'From "the Me Decade" to "the Me Millennium": The Cultural History of Narcissism' International Journal of Cultural Studies. 10 (3): 343-363

Tyler, I. (2007) 'The Selfish Feminist: Public Images of Women's Liberation' Australian Feminist Studies 22 (54): 173-190

Tyler, I. and Bruce Bennett. (2007) `Screening Unliveable Lives: The Cinema of Borders' in Anikó Imre, Katarzyna Marciniak, Áine O'Healy (eds.) Transnational Feminist Encounters in Film and Media, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 21-36.

Tyler, I. (2007) Review of Amy Mullin, Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience, and Reproductive Labor, Feminist Theory, 8(1): 132

Tyler, I. (2006) `Colonized Feeling' Oxford Literary Review 28: 155-170

Tyler, I. (2006)`The filthy politics of social class' Media/Culture 9 (5) (online at www.journal.media-culture.org.au).

Tyler I. (2006)`"Welcome to Britain": The Cultural Politics of Asylum' European Journal of Cultural Studies 9: 185-202.

Tyler I. (2005) 'The Sexual Politics of Narcissism' Feminist Theory 6: 25-44

Tyler, I. with SHaH (writing collective) (2003) 'How It Feels', in Jane Arthurs and Ian grant (Eds.), Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and The Material, Bristol and Oregon: Intellect Books: 23-34.

Tyler, I. (2001) ' Skin-tight: Celebrity, Pregnancy and Subjectivity' in Thinking Through the Skin, Routledge: London and New York, 69-83.

Tyler, I and Elena Loizidou (2000) 'The Promise of Berlant' Cultural Values, Volume 4, Number 4, October: 497-511.

Tyler, I. (2000) 'Reframing Pregnant Embodiment' in Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism Routledge: London and New York, 288-301

Bennett B. and I.Tyler.(1999) 'Report on 1998 Screen Studies Conference', Screen, 40 (1): 96-100

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Please contact me if you have trouble accessing any of my publications.

Current Writing Projects

Monograph: Social Abjection (in preparation)

Guest-editorship (in preparation) Special Issue: Citizenship Studies. Issue topic: "Immigrant Protest" (with Katarzyna Marciniak).

Tyler, I. and K. Marciniak (eds) (in preparation) Immigrant Resistance: Politics, Aesthetics and Everyday Dissent

Tyler, I.(in preparation) `From Cathy Come Home to Pramfaced Babies': Social Realism and"Maternal TV"` in Beverly Skeggs and Helen Woods (eds.) Real Class: Ordinary people and Reality Television Across National Spaces.

Detailed Research Interests

There are two major strands to my current research:

1. Maternal Publics: Bodies, Identites, Practices

I have published extensively on pregnancy, motherhood, and the maternal. Most recently I edited a special issue of Feminist Review on Birth (2009).

I am on the editorial board of a new journal called Studies in the Maternal

I an co-directing (with Dr Celia Roberts) a European funded research project on Childbirth Organisations in the UK 2009-2011. This is part of a larger European funded project on patient organisations EPOKS (European Patient Organisations in Knowledge Society). Dr Candice Satchwell is the senior researcher on this project (from January 2010).

With Dr Lisa Baraitser (psycho-social studies, Birkbeck) I am developing further work on Maternal Publics and Counterpublics.

I co-directed (with Dr Caroline Gatrell) a research project entitled Hard Labour: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction (funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster) for which we organised aworkshop on Maternal Bodies (2005) and an international conference, Birth (2007).

I work with researchers from across Europe in a network called MaMSIE: Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics. This interdisciplinary network with over 100 memebers, was founded in 2007 with the aim of establishling a `subject centre' of academics, writers, artists, activists and others interested in the maternal across a number of different disciplinary and practice boundaries.

Imogen Tyler on Radio 4, Woman's Hour 'Pregorexia' (2008)

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2. Social Abjection: Inequalities, Marginalisation and Resistance

My second major area of research is `Social Abjection` this theme/concept brings together my research on asylum, immigration, borders, social class, race, ethnicity, disability, social exclusion, poverty and my interest in the relationship between theory and social activism. I am interested in how specific groups and populations are figured as abjection-- how social and cultural processes of abjection are lived, endured andresisted.A major component of this research involves exploring forms of coalition, dissent, protest and revolt amongst citizens and non-citizens. In this regard Iam particularly interested in the forms protest takes,`protest materials`, art/activism and political aesthetics.

See my recent article `Against Abjection' Feminist Theory (2009) in which I distinquish my own conceptual and social model of abjection from previous accounts of this concept.

I am in the process of completing my monograph on Social Abjection. In 2010, I am planning a small visual sociology project on `Freeganism` to finish this book project- watch this space.

With Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University) I am currently preparing a special issue of Citizenship Studies on Immigrant Protest and also a co-edited book on Immigrant Resistance: Politics, Aesthetics and Everyday Dissent

I have established a migrancy research group at Lancaster and with Katarzyna Marciniak who is visiting in February 2010, I am organising a seminar on`Digital Rage` and a research workshop on Immigrant Protest. Details and calls for participants to follow.

With Bruce Bennett (Lancaster) I am developing my interests in Political Aesthetics and Social Class. See our forthcoming 'Celebrity Chav: fame, femininity and social class' .Bruce Bennett and I are preparing a special issue of an online journal on`Class` and two articles on class aesthetics which examine the films of Shane Meadows and the photography of Richard Billingham.

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Selection of Invited Plenary lectures and Talks from 2005-

22 June 2009 Invited Speaker `Immigrant Protest: The Ethics and Politics of Scholarship on Asylum in Britain`, ESRC funded workshop on Ethics as Practice at the Global Crossroads June 22nd-24th Lancaster University

8 June 2009 Invited Speaker 'Maternal Bodies and Identities in Contemporary Britain' School of Nursing and Midwifery, Centre for Health & Social Care Studies and Service Development, Sheffield University

5 June 2009 speaker at Urban Inequalities workshop, Lancaster.

28 May 2009 Invited Speaker, 'Pramface: (in)Fertility and Class Disgust' at Mother Trouble- Birkbeck. A collaboration between School of Psychosocial Studies, MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics) and CentreCATH (Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History), University of Leeds .

8 May 2008 Invited Speaker `The Changing Visual Cultures of Maternity` ERSC funded seminar on Motherhood, Markets and Consumption, Lancaster University

3 April 2009 Respondent, EMOTIONAL LABOUR, CGWS, Lancaster.

17 March 2009 Speaker at launch of journal Studies in the Maternal Birbeck College, London

4 February 2009 Plenary/Public Lecture 'Maternal Publics (and Counter-Publics)' University of North Texas

3 February 2009 Invited Plenary/Public Lecture`Why the Maternal Now?` University of North Texas

June 25 2008 Plenary Speaker 'Dirty White Trash: Fame, Femininity and Social Class' Going Cheap: Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres, University of East Anglia.

May 8 2008 Invited Speaker 'White Trash Aesthetics: The Affectivity of Social Class in Contemporary Britain' University of the West of England

March 13-14 2008 Invited Speaker "The Dawn Raid: Immigrant Protest, Unsafe Life", `presentation, documentation, mediation`, New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living, IAS, Lancaster University.

February 28 2008 Invited Speaker `Chav Scum: The Filthy Poltics of Social Class' Interdisciplinary Institute (MISST), Manchester Metropolitan University.

November 2 2007 Invited Speaker 'Against Abjection' Interrupting Maternal Voices: Between the Theoretical and Empirical, MaMSIE, Birbeck College, London.

October 4 2007 Invited Speaker, 'Safe Living and Design' New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living programme, IAS, Lancaster University.

October 1 2007 Invited Speaker, 'Immigrant Protest' at State, Violence and Subjectivities: Conversations with Prof. Veena Das, Lancaster University.

September 28 2007 `The Immigration Industry: the Economics of Melancholia` Melancholic States International Conference, Lancaster University

July 4 2007 Invited Speaker, `Performing the Border`, IWS Seminar Lancaster University.

June 29 2007, 'The Politics of the Affective Turn' FWSA conference, Feminism and Popular Culture, Newcastle.

May 21 2007 Invited Speaker `The Lie of the Land: The Immigration Industry and the Economics of Melancholia` (Un)Making Personhood, Women's Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden.

May 16 2007, 'Chav Scum: social (im)mobility and class disgust' CeMoRe Research Day, Lancaster University.

March 6 2007 Opening Address at Birth: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction Conference, IAS, Lancaster.

June 9, 2006 Invited Speaker 'Class Disgust' at Emotion, Culture, Affect: Feminist Engagements Goldsmiths College, University of London.

November 2006 Invited Speaker 'Feminism and Narcissism', IWS seminar, Lancaster University.

November 2 2005 `Pregnant Beauty`: The changing visual and cultural practices of pregnant embodiment` Maternal Bodies, IAS, Lancaster University.

September 26, 2005 'The Narcissism of Theory' presentation at workshop with Ghassan Hage, IAS and Sociology, Lancaster.

2005, Invited Speaker `Precarious Life: Symposium on Judith Butler' New Securities, IAS/Politics/IWS, Lancaster University.

July 1 2005, Plenary Speaker `The Cultural Politics of Asylum' at Identity Matters Conference, Liverpool Hope University College.

January 25 2005, Invited Speaker 'Cultural Politics of Asylum' Law Seminar, Birbeck College, University of London.

Feb 2005 `Welcome to Britain`: The cultural politics of asylum' CeMoRe Research Day, Lancaster University.

Additional Information

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Imogen Tyler has 12 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Associated Keywords: Activism, Body image, Cartography, Class politics, Cultural theory, Embodiment, Emotions, Feminist philosophy, Feminist theory, Gender, Gender identities, Identity politics, Meditation, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, National identities, Normativity, Political theory, Popular culture, Postcolonial theory, Poststructuralist, Psychoanalytic thought, Psychosocial interventions, Racialisation, Refugee, Representation, Social inequalities, Theories and narratives of reproduction

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