Stigma Revisited: Implications of the Mark is a return on Erving Goffman's seminal 1963 work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity.This is a study of those who experience stigma in their everyday lives. It addresses both the individual experience of, and resistance to, symbolic stigma and the collective impact of structural stigma, mobilized in the name of social control and risk management.With unique, personal vignettes that position each of the academic contributors in relation to their subjects, this collection of essays also challenges social science researchers to understand their own role in reproducing and contesting hegemonic discourses that stigmatize and marginalize. Research is presented as a site of political and personal engagement and the academy is implicated as a force for social change.
