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This monograph reconceptualises discrimination law as fundamentally concerned with stigma. Using sociological and socio-psychological theories of stigma, the author presents an ''anti-stigma principle'', promoting it as a method to determine the scope of legal protection from discrimination. The anti-stigma principle recognises the role of institutional and individual action in the perpetuation of discrimination. Setting discrimination law within the field of public health, it frames positive action and intersectional discrimination as the norm in this field of law rather than the exception. In developing and applying this new theory for anti-discrimination law, the book draws upon case law from jurisdictions including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada, as well as European law.>
List of contents
Introduction
I. Construction of the Anti-stigma Principle
II. Application of the Anti-stigma Principle
1. Stigma
I. Defining Stigma
II. Erwin Goffman and Stigma
III. The Process of Stigmatisation
IV. Developments in the Theory of Stigma
V. Power
VI. Conclusion
2. Legal Protection from Discrimination
I. Introduction
II. Equality and Inequality in Political Philosophy
III. The Anti-discrimination Principle in International Law
IV. Closed Lists
V. Open Lists
VI. Dignity, Immutability and the Anti-discrimination Principle
VII. The Limits of Dignity
VIII. The Idea of Immutability
IX. Conclusion
3. Stigma and Litigation
I. Goffman in Legal Scholarship
II. Litigation in Europe
III. Conclusion
4. The Anti-stigma Principle
I. Linking Interpersonal and Structural Stigma
II. Models of Stigma and Public Health
III. The Discrimination Virus
IV. Conclusion
5. Public Action to Combat Discrimination
I. Tackling a Public Health Virus: The Ebola Outbreak of 2014
II. The Transmission of Stigma
III. Positive Action and the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED)
IV. Public Action to Tackle the Virus of Discrimination
V. Conclusion
6. Stigma, Synergy and Intersectionality
I. Understanding Intersectional Discrimination
II. Categorisation in Anti-discrimination Law
III. Addressing Intersectional Discrimination
IV. Applying Intersectional Discrimination
V. Conclusion
About the author
Iyiola Solanke is Professor of European Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, and an Associate Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple.
Summary
This monograph reconceptualises discrimination law as fundamentally concerned with stigma. Using sociological and socio-psychological theories of stigma, the author presents an ‘anti-stigma principle’, promoting it as a method to determine the scope of legal protection from discrimination. The anti-stigma principle recognises the role of institutional and individual action in the perpetuation of discrimination. Setting discrimination law within the field of public health, it frames positive action and intersectional discrimination as the norm in this field of law rather than the exception. In developing and applying this new theory for anti-discrimination law, the book draws upon case law from jurisdictions including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada, as well as European law.
Additional text
Investigating the causal link between stigmatisation and discrimination is ... the agenda set by Solanke in her perspective-shifting and timely book Discrimination as Stigma: A Theory of Anti-Discrimination Law. By shifting the focus to stigmatisation, the book sheds a new light on discrimination theory... Solanke's book is both inspiring and thought-provoking. It can be highly recommended.
