Imogen Tyler

TL;DR: The authors explored the role played by disgust reactions in the generation and circulation of the chav figure through popular media and argued that the "chav mum" is produced through disgust reactions as an intensely affective figure that embodies historically familiar and contemporary anxieties about female sexuality, reproduction, fertility, and racial mixing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of "Revolting Subjects" and discuss the history of British Citizenship and the politics of British citizenship, including the Asylum Invasion Complex and the Feminist Commons.

TL;DR: The conceptual understanding of stigma which underpins most sociological research has its roots in the ground-breaking work of as discussed by the authors, who showed that stigma is not a self-evident phenomenon but like all concepts has a history.

TL;DR: In the aftermath of the global banking crises, a political economy of permanent state austerity has emerged, driven by and legitimated through a hardening anti-welfare commonsense as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This paper argued that celebrity is an increasingly significant means by which reactionary class attitudes, allegiances and judgements are communicated, in contradistinction to claims that the co-existence of celebrities is not a sign of class solidarity.