Discrimination as Stigma: A Theory of Anti-discrimination Law

by Iyiola Solanke

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849467382
• ISBN13: 9781849467384
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"