Introducing The Stigma Conversations

What is stigma? Who does it serve? And how does it shape a world broken by poverty, prejudice, and injustice? Welcome to The Stigma Conversations, with leading activist sociologist Imogen Tyler. Join Imogen as she meets inspirational academics, activists and frontline workers to show that while stigma is certainly about feelings and experiences, it’s also about power, politics and history. We are in a state of emergency, and we need to take action, now.

Through intimate and urgent conversations on subjects including poverty and austerity, racism and Brexit, and the ongoing “war on woke”, Imogen and guests show that to truly tackle stigma we need to ask big questions about how it is produced and what its history is. Only then can we start to call out the systems that divide and dehumanise us – and ask for better. Indeed, as The Stigma Conversations shows – with each episode closing with a thoughtful short essay from Imogen – the story of stigma is also one of subversion, solidarity and hope.

Click ‘subscribe’ or ‘follow’ now in the podcast app that you use, to be sure that you hear every episode. Read more about Imogen and her book, Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality. Find out more about The Stigma Conversations at The Sociological Review.

Series credits:

Host: Imogen Tyler
Executive and Development Producer: Alice Bloch
Project Lead: Imogen Tyler
Project Officer: Danielle Galway
Sound Engineer: David Crackles
Music: Bruce Bennett
Artwork: Bruce Bennett