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Professor of Sociology social justice; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. Interested in imagining & building alternatives 🌳 🌊 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧ 🍉 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler .. more

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Feb 14

This a useful primer on the oligarchical fascism we face “In an information-age economy where data is capital, [Musk’s] move resembles the kleptocratic tactics used by oligarchs to amass power and control markets”. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

Elon Musk’s Treasury Data Grab

Data Piracy at a Kleptocratic Scale?

antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 14

1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website.

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Protests Erupt At Stonewall After Trump Removes Trans People From Monument Website

At least one reporter counted the attendees of the protest to number over 1,000 people.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Jan 28

Truth

Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Jan 15

Your new book looks fantastic Sam - can’t wait to read it.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 6

FTSE 100 bosses make more money by noon today than average worker in a year

Bosses will hit milestone marginally quicker this year on the third working day of 2025 with median hourly pay of £1,298, says High Pay Centre The chief executives of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2025 by midday on Monday than their…

www.theguardian.com

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Jan 6

“ambulances (in UK) spent more than 1.5m hours – equivalent to 187 years – stuck outside A&Es waiting to offload patients in the year to November 2024” staggering data (if also not surprising to those of us who have experienced this disaster & harms first hand). www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day

Exclusive: 414,137 people believed to have experienced some level of harm in last year, Guardian analysis finds

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Dec 9

Come to my book launch! Its on 28 February at the University of Liverpool with a fantastic all star line up featuring Patrick Joyce, Abi O'Connor (@abioconnor_ ), Janaya Pickett and Elsa Devienne. Free wine and discussion! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/liverpool-...

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Dec 5

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 27

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 27

‘If your work doesn’t reach into the future, what’s the point?’ - I so respect Henry Giroux’s work and his deeply passionate political commitment to the value of and role education in support of struggles for social justice www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/2024/11/05/i...

‘If your work doesn’t reach into the future, what’s the point?’ – Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University

www.humanities.mcmaster.ca

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 27

“Historical amnesia has become a mass pedagogical weapon of depoliticization” Youth Resistance in the Age of Fascist Dream-Worlds - Henry Giroux www.laprogressive.com/education-re...

Youth Resistance in the Age of Fascist Dream-Worlds

For too long, liberals have failed to recognize education for what it truly is: not merely a service or a tool for economic adaptation, but the very foundation of democratic life.

www.laprogressive.com

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 26

Post the cover of a book that influenced you with no description or explanation
Day 10/20
💙📚
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

Cover of letters from the Utopia margins by Avery Gordon

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Johanna Pink @jabunna.bsky.social · Nov 25

We're hiring a postdoc and 6 PhD students for the Research Training Group "Empires", in which I will be one of the faculty members. If you know of people who might be interested in applying, please spread the word!
www.grk2571.uni-freiburg.de/jobs-and-opp...

Jobs and Opportunities — DFG Research Training Group 2571 "Empires. Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders"

The RTG 2571 “Empires" (Freiburg) is looking to fill one postdoc position and six PhD positions. All positions start on May 1st, 2025. The application deadline is December, 31st, 2024.

www.grk2571.uni-freiburg.de

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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · Nov 25

Join us on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024 for a workshop on ‘The Politics of Bordering’ @ the University of Brighton - in person or online. I’ll be talking about ‘Coloniality, Europeanness and Race: Britain’s Borders after Brexit’: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2024/1...

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 23

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 23

Snow in Edinburgh - gorgeous

Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 22

🤣 I’m still adjusting to the phrase “starter pack”

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · Nov 22

what's so wrong with having an echo chamber for the left?

sounds like a great idea! let's do it!

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 22

Today my morning wake up alarm came in the form of a gentle but persistent pawing at 6am

Small black dog stretches
Paw onto owner to make her get out of bed

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Nov 22

Adam Warren, Julia E. Rodriguez and Stephen T. Casper (eds.), Empire, Colonialism and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific - Cambridge University Press, October 2024 (print and open access)
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Cover of book, with photo showing a museum room damaged by fire

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 22

Fascinating - thanks for sharing

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · Nov 22

Aditya Chakrabortty: “My trade has spent most of the past decade composing sepia-tinged portraits of the industrial working class….but almost no time on the post-industrial working class: the warehouse workers, the couriers, the hospital porters & cleaners.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class | Aditya Chakrabortty

The story of former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak reveals much about the people who keep our society running – at huge personal cost, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Nov 21

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship

We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 21

Been discussing how “stigma”
translates into Chinese (and Chinese social contexts) with my friend this evening. Closest we got was 污名 [Wu Ming] would be fascinating to think through the idea & mechanics of “Stigma Power” in non-European contexts.

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thanks Sally

Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thanks Kat - I’m enjoying teaching it

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Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social · Nov 21

Our book is out! Get your library requests in for Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present

& thank you to all who contributed to the volume, it was a pleasure working with everyone.

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Nov 21

New review article!

'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism': A roundtable with @milesogborn.bsky.social, Herman L. Bennett, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Bill Schwarz and Catherine Hall.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 21

I’ve reorganised the module by focusing on key questions (and theorists) - drawing it together through a “connected sociologies” framework. Seems to work - but always hard to fit everything in.

Module outline for social theory undergraduate module

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Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social · Nov 21

Been really enjoying teaching the core undergrad social theory module this year to our sociology majors. Students super-engaged.

Montage of social theorists taught to Undergrads

Montage of social theorists taught to undergraduates

What is the black sociological tradition. Du Bois

What is racial capitalism? connected sociologies and connected histories from E.P Thompson to Catherine Hall

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