Critical Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Reading Group
Thu, 05 Nov 2015 01:50:00 GMT
The next meeting for the Critical Perspectives Reading Group will take place on Thursday 3 December at 4.15pm in The Business School in BSG/28.
All staff and postgraduate students are welcome to attend. You don’t have to finish reading the text and comments via email prior to the meeting are welcomed. All insights are welcome at this reading group.
December’s book:
The group will be looking at Imogen Tyler's recent work Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (2013) with a view to generating a fascinating discussion, not least because of the diverse ways of using the concept of social abjection. Here is an overview:
Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring the processes through which specific populations are figured as 'revolting' as well as the practices through which these populations 'revolt' against their subjectification. The book utilises a number of high-profile and in-depth case studies - including 'chavs', asylum seekers, Gypsies, anarchists and the disabled - to examine the ways in which individuals and groups negotiate restrictive, neoliberal ideologies of selfhood. In doing so, Tyler argues for a deeper psycho-social understanding of the role of aesthetic and representational forms in producing marginality, social exclusion and injustice, whilst also showing how it can be a creative resource for resistance.
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.
You are welcome to bring along your cup of coffee and join in the discussion.
Please send expressions of interest to Stephen at s.p.gibbs@hud.ac.uk
