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Dr Imogen Tyler

Co-Director CGWS. Sociology: Senior Lecturer

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

I am currently co-Director of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, anda Leverhulme Research Fellow (from 1/9/2010 until 30/3/2012). I will be in the University on Wednesday and Thursdays this term, please email for an appointment.

Research Interests

My research currently has two main themes:

1. Revolting Subjects

Social Abjection and Revolt are pivotal concepts within my current research, bringing together intersecting interests in migration, borders, social class, race, ethnicity, disability, poverty through a focus on mediation and political aesthetics. My forthcoming monograph, Revolting Subjects (Zed) examines the relationship between mediation, subjectivity and inequality in the tumultuous context of neoliberal Britain. It explores the double meaning of 'revolt': the processes through which specific populations are figured as revolting and become subject to censure and the practices through which these populations revolt against their abject subjectification. Revolting Subjects aims to deepen critical understandings of neoliberalism as a psycho-social formation by exploring the ways in which individuals and groups embody, live, negotiate and resist prevailingideologies of selfhood. In particular, it examines the role of media (analogue and digital) in producing social marginalisation and as routes for recoding abjection, and protesting against inequalities. Project updates at: http://revoltingsubjects.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/revolting-subjects/

With Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University) I am preparing a special issue of Citizenship Studies on `Immigrant Protest` and an edited book Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent (SUNY).

Connected to this research theme, I am also part of an ESRC funded project called'Making Asylum Seekers Legible and Visible: An Analysis of the Dilemmas and Mitigating Strategies of Asylum Advocacy in the UK and US ' (for information see www.asylum-network.com, and link with us on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/asylumresearch)

2. Maternal Publics

I have published widely in this area, most recently editing a special issue of Feminist Review on `Birth' (2009). I sit on the editorial board of Studies in the Maternaland the MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics) international research network. I co-directed (with Dr Caroline Gatrell) a research project entitled Hard Labour: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction for which we organised a workshop on Maternal Bodies (2005) and an international conference, Birth (2007). I am currently working (with Dr Celia Roberts and Dr Candice Satchwell) on a European-funded research project on Childbirth Organisations in the UK 2009-2011. With Dr Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck) I am co-writing a monograph on Maternal Publics and Counterpublics. Lisa and I spoke about our new work in a public lecture,`Private View: Public Birth: Feminist Commons', at the launch of the Birth Rites Collection at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester in May 2011.

Current Research Funding

Leverhulme Research Fellowship (£45,000) (1/9/2010-30/12/11)

European Commission, EU-FP7 (£150,000) (1/2/09-1/2/12): 'European Patient Organisations in Knowledge Society' (EPOKS). Co-Investigator with Dr Celia Roberts and Senior Research Associate Dr Candice Satchwell.Project Website: http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/WebCSI/EPOKSWebSite/

ESRC (£95,694.67) (from 1/7/0 for 18 mths ) ESRC Small Grant, 'Making Asylum Seekers Legible and Visible: An Analysis of the Dilemmas, Risks and Mitigating Strategies of Asylum Advocacy'. Principle Investigator, Nick Gill, co-investigators Deirdre Conlon and Imogen Tyler and Dr Ceri Oeppen- researcher. http://asylum-network.com/

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.

Postdoctoral Student

Dr Maja Sager, COFAS postdoctoral fellow based between Lund University, Sweden, and Lancaster University. Project: `Contested Boundaries. An ethnographic study of activist practices for the inclusion of excluded migrants in Sweden, Denmark and UK'. Majabegins her fellowship in the Autumn of 2012and at Lancaster will bebased in the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, and the Centre for Mobilities research in the Sociology Department. Shewill also be joining the research network www.asylum-network.org.

PhD students

Clay Garland Governmentality and citizenship at the UK's internal borders (ESRC 1 plus 3)

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)

Dr Maja Sager `Clandestine asylum seekers in the Swedish welfare state' (visiting PhD student,The Centre for Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden 2008-2009, Graduated 2011).

Dr Clare Woolhouse`Women's Magazines' (Graduated 2010, AHRC)

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

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

Publications

Radio

'Chavs': Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, June 29th 2010: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0124nty

'Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care' Resonance 104.4Fm, 27th May 2011: http://www.enemiesofgoodart.org/motherhood-servitude-and-the-delegation-of-care/

`Pregnancy and Eating Disorders': Women's Hour, BBC Radio 4 August 2008: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00czyvb

Monograph:

Tyler, I. (forthcoming) Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection, Resistance and Dissent in Contemporary Britain (Zed Books).

Baraitser. L. and I. Tyler Maternal Publics and Counter Publics (proposal in preparation)

Journal Special Issue Editorship:

Jensen, T and I. Tyler (eds.) (in preparation) 'Austerity Parenting: New Economies of Parent-Citizenship' Studies in the Maternal, CFP at http://en-gb.connect.facebook.com/pages/Austerity-Parenting/153668041371512?v=info

Tyler I, and K. Marciniak (eds.) (forthcoming) 'Immigrant Protest' Citizenship Studies, 17 (2).

Tyler, I. and C.Gatrell (2009) 'Birth' Feminist Review, 93.http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v93/n1/index.html

Edited Book:

Marciniak, K. and I.Tyler (eds.) (forthcoming) Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent (SUNY, New York)

Journal Publications and Book Chapters:

Baraitser, L.and I. Tyler (in preparation) 'Private View: Public Birth'

Tyler, I. and R. Gill (in preparation) 'Postcolonial Girl: Migrant Audibility and Intimate Activism'

Tyler I, and K. Marciniak (forthcoming) 'Immigrant Protest: An Introduction' Citizenship Studies 17 (2).

Tyler, I. (forthcoming) 'Naked Protest: The Maternal Politics of Citizenship and Revolt' Citizenship Studies 17 (2).

Simic, L. and I. Tyler. (forthcoming) `Becoming British: A Conversation' Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent (SUNY press)

Tyler, I. (2011) `Pramfaced Girls: the Class Politics of "Maternal TV"` in Beverly Skeggs and Helen Wood (eds.) Real Class: Ordinary people and Reality Television Across National Spaces, London: BFI

Tyler, I. (2011) `Pregnant Beauty: Maternal Femininities under Neoliberalism' in Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff (eds.) New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Identity. Palgrave.pp .21-36

Tyler, I. (2011) `British Citizenship: A brief critical perspective` in Lena Simic and Jennifer Verson (eds.) Blood & Soil: we were always meant to meet...

Tyler, I. (2010) `Troubling Mothers' Studies in the Maternal 1(3). [online http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/troubling.html]

Tyler, I and L. Baraitser, (2010) 'Talking of Mothers' Soundings 44, Spring:117-127.

Tyler, I. (2010) `Designed to Fail: a biopolitics of British Citizenship` Citizenship Studies. 14 (1): 61-74. [free access to this article click link]

Tyler, I. (2009) `Maternal Matters: The Political Aesthetic of Lena Šimic', in Lena Simic: Maternal Matters and Other Sisters, The Arts Council: 6-10.

T yler, I. (2009) 'On Birth: An Introduction' Feminist Review 93:1-7.

Tyler I. (2009) `The Taboo Aesthetics of the Birth Scene' Feminist Review 93: 134-137

Tyler, I. (2009) 'Against Abjection' Feminist Theory 10 (1): 77-98.

Tyler, I. (2009) 'Why the Maternal Now?' Studies in the Maternal 1(1). [online journal] article here:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/tyler-whythematernalnow.pdf

Tyler, I. (2008) '"Chav Mum, Chav Scum": Class Disgust in Contemporary Britain' Feminist Media Studies 8 (1): 17-34. [Free to access here ] Reprinted Tyler, I. (2008) 'Class Disgust in Contemporary Britain' in Monica Greco and Paul Stenner (eds.) Emotions : A Social Science Reader, Routledge: New York, London.

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

Bennett .B., and I. Tyler (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, pp. 21-36. [being re-issued in paperback 2011]

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. (2006) ` The filthy politics of social class' Media/Culture 9 (5). online http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0610/09-tyler.php

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

Tyler I. (2006) "Welcome to Britain": The Cultural Politics of Asylum' European Journal of Cultural Studies 9 (2): 185-202.

Tyler I. (2005) 'The Sexual Politics of Narcissism' Feminist Theory 6 (1): 25-44.

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

Tyler, I. (2000) 'Reframing Pregnant Embodiment' in Sara Ahmed, Celia Lury, Jane Kilby, Maureen McNeil, Beverly Skeggs (eds). Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism Routledge: London and New York, pp. 288-301.

Tyler, I and E. Loizidou (2000) 'The Promise of Berlant: An Interview' Cultural Values, 4 (4): 497-511. [30% Tyler]

· European Journal of Cultural Studies http://ecs.sagepub.com/

- Feminist Media Studies http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms

· Sociological Research Online http://www.socresonline.org.uk/

· Studies in the Maternal http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/

Research Presentations

(NOTE: I have limited this to plenary and invited talks since 2005 for brevity)

Plenary and Keynote Speaker

September 2012 Fame and Celebrity: The Rise of Glossy Culture, Sociology Department, York University.

11 May 2011 with L.Baraitser 'Private View: Public Birth: Feminist Commons' Birth Rites, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

9 May 2011 with L. Baraitser 'Private View: Public Birth: Feminist Commons' Birth Rites, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

27 June 2010 Keynote 'Maternal Femininites' ACR Gender Conference, Universityof Cumbria, Ambleside.

4 February 2009 Keynote 'Maternal Publics (and Counter-Publics)' University of North Texas

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

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

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

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

Invited Speaker (since 2005)

20 May 2011 Motherhood, Servitude, and the Delegation of Care, Birkbeck, London

11 May 2011 'The Aesthetics of Disobedience' Disobedience Day, Sociology, Lancaster University

16 March 2010 `Abject Social Figures' Sociology Department , London School of Economics.

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

28 May 2009'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 `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 launch of journal Studies in the Maternal Birkbeck College, London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tyler, Imogen (2008) "Chav Mum, Chav Scum" : class disgust in contemporary Britain. Feminist Media Studies, 8 (1). pp. 17-34. ISSN 1468-0777

Tyler, Imogen (2010) Designed to fail : a biopolitics of British Citizenship. Citizenship Studies, 14 (1). pp. 61-74. ISSN 1469-3593

Tyler, I. (2006) Welcome to Britain: The Cultural Politics of Asylum. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9 (2). pp. 185-202. ISSN Online ISSN: 1460-3551 Print ISSN: 1367-5494

Tyler, Imogen (2009) Against abjection. Feminist Theory, 10 (1). pp. 77-98. ISSN Online ISSN: 1741-2773 Print ISSN: 1464-7001

Tyler, I. (2005) Who put the "Me" in feminism? The Sexual Politics of Narcissism. Feminist Theory, 6 (1). pp. 25-44. ISSN Online ISSN: 1741-2773 Print ISSN: 1464-7001

Tyler, I. (2007) From "the Me Decade" to "the Me Millennium": The Cultural History of Narcissism. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 10 (3). pp. 343-363. ISSN Online ISSN: 1460-356X Print ISSN: 1367-8779

Tyler, I. (2007) The Selfish Feminist: Public Images of Women's Liberation. Australian Feminist Studies, 22 (53). pp. 173-190. ISSN 1465-3303

Tyler, Imogen (2009) Why the maternal now? Studies in The Maternal, 1 (1). ISSN 1759-0434

Tyler, Imogen (2009) Introduction: Birth. Feminist Review, 93 (93). pp. 1-7. ISSN 0141-7789

Other Interests and Hobbies

I am a School Governor at Bowerham Primary School in Lancaster.

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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