Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality

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Half Title
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction: stigma, the machinery of inequality
	A vigorous and relentless assault upon human dignity
	What is stigma?
	A mark made upon the skin by burning with a hot iron
	The coining of blood into capital
	Letters of blood and fire
	Stigma power
	Neoliberal stigma power – looking up
	Genealogies of stigma power – looking back
	Stigma and racism
	Decolonising stigma
	Borders, walls and fences
	The political economy of stigma
	Fighting shame
1. The penal tattoo
	Stigma as inscription
	The ancient penal history of stigma
	Capturing labour
	Threads of racism
	Misogyny and stigma
	‘Muzzled like dogs and paraded through the streets’
	Branking in the twenty-first century
	Slave masks
	The changing meanings of tattoos
	The enclosure of land
	Enclosure propagandists
	Branding the vagabond, badging the poor
	Bentham’s panoptical welfare stigma machine
	The enclosure of the poor
	Colonise at home
	‘Flogged, fettered and tortured in the most exquisite refinement of cruelty’
	The cotton that connects, the cloth that binds
	Eugenic epistemologies of tattooing
	Penal stigma in India
	The stigma of genetic criminality
	Indian democracy
	The stigma machine of caste
	Hindu supremacy
	Connected histories of stigma power
2. From stigma power to black power
	Struggles in the interaction order
	Social relations without power relations
	The erasure of the history of penal stigma
	Atrocity tales: Goffman’s methods
	The stigma of disability
	Professor normal
	‘A black boy hacked into a murderous lesson’
	Stigma as struggle
	Stigma after Goffman
3. The stigma machine of the border
	Scene one: Břeclav railway station, Břeclav, South Moravia, Czechia, 1 September 2015
	‘Migrants are like cockroaches’
	Europe’s racist crisis
	‘A genocide against white people’
	‘No camp, no camp’
	Genealogies of racism in Europe
	Fascism as a connecting thread
	The stigma machine of fascism
	Public humiliation and pillory
	The death of the scaffold?
	The return of shame sanctions
	Tipping back into authoritarianism
	‘A gigantic wave of racist state propaganda’
	Fascism online: transnational racist responses to Břeclav
	Scene two: Břlá-Jezová immigration detention centre, Czechia, 31 August 2015
	Spectres of fascism
	Scene three: Břeclav train station, 11 March 1938
4. The stigma machine of austerity
	The austerity state
	Austerity as enclosure
	‘The political violence of the state is becoming normalised’
	Unseeing austerity
	Seeing austerity
	Austerity in my own life
	Actively disabling people
	The uneven geography of austerity
	‘We are completely beaten down by being dehumanised’
	Welfare stigma as a rationing device
	Neoliberal welfare stigma
	‘Bring back the welfare stigma’
	The war on welfare
	Benefits broods
	‘To you we’re just human waste’
	‘One constant cycle of judgement’
	Welfare disinheritance
	The unsettling of the welfare settlement
	Ashton Hall, Lancaster Town Hall 1909
	Resisting the new enclosures
5. Shame lives on the eyelids
	Mob cap and pinny
	The facade of the English pastoral
	Moving away
	People like you
	Shameless defiance
	Class shame
	Being the anthropological object
	Telling practices
	Speaking back
	Sociological imagination
6. Conclusion: rage against the stigma machines
	‘Hands off our stories’
	The political economy of stigma
	Neoliberalism makes you sick
	Following the stigma money
	Penal stigma in the colony
	This work of civilisation is an enormous and continual butchery
	Stigma machines
	Machine breaking
	Freedom movements
	The new machine politics
	Common humanity
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index