Beyond recognition: Identification and disidentification in visual resistance to stigma

Meriluoto, Taina

Beyond recognition: Identification and disidentification in visual resistance to stigma - The Sociological Review 2024 - 1076-1096

This article theorizes visual practices of stigma resistance as a continuous play with identification and disidentification. Based on an ethnographic study of young, stigmatized activists' self-images, I argue that the oft-employed concept of recognition

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Multiplicity
Stigma Resistance
Visual Resistance
Ethnographic Study