Stigma Revisited - by Stacey Hannem & Chris Bruckert (Paperback)

About the Book

A return on Erving Goffman's seminal 1963 Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Stacey Hannem received her PhD in Sociology from Carleton University in 2008 and her Masters in Criminology from the University of Ottawa in 2003. Prior to joining Laurier as a faculty member in 2009, she was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow and invited professor at the University of Ottawa, Department of Criminology. She is a member of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association (CCJA) board of directors and was chair of the CCJA Policy Review Committee from 2008-15. She is a member of the publication committee for the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.