Résumé
Stigma Revisited: Implications of the Mark is a collection of qualitative, empirical studies of populations who experience stigma. Discrimination, marginality and social injustice are recognized as indelibly tied to the phenomena of stigma. This volume builds on the work of Erving Goffman and integrates a larger, structural understanding of stigma based in Michel Foucault’s governmentality writings.
Contemporary notions of risk, riskiness and danger are linked to the labelling of “deviant” populations in the name of social control and risk management; these labels result in the institutional and systemic perpetuation of stereotypes and stigmatic attitudes. The research presented in this book addresses the individual experience of symbolic stigma as well as the collective impact of structural stigma. With unique, personal vignettes that position each of the academic contributors in relation to their subjects, this collection of essays challenges social science researchers to understand their own role in reproducing and contesting hegemonic discourses that stigmatize and marginalize.
Published in English.
Auteur
Caractéristiques
Éditeur : University of Ottawa Press
Publication : 6 octobre 2012
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub], Livre numérique eBook [PDF]
Contenu(s) : ePub, PDF
Protection(s) : Aucune (ePub), Aucune (PDF)
Taille(s) : 707 ko (ePub), 4,75 Mo (PDF)
Langue(s) : Anglais
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9780776620268
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF] : 9780776620022
EAN13 (papier) : 9780776607832



