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This chapter maps how power, stigma, and moral judgement organise the thresholds of help. Drawing on Foucault, Imogen Tyler, and frontline examples, I show how labels such as “non-compliant” or “not ready” function as exclusion devices, converting structural deprivation into moral deficit. I unpack how language becomes policy; how “helpability” is staged and surveilled; and how people are made administratively invisible when their survival strategies do not match the expected script. The chapter closes by proposing a counter-grammar, one that treats pain as signal, recognises dignity, and refuses conditionality that punishes the very strategies that kept people alive.

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Grammar of Exclusion: Power, Stigma, and the Moral Architecture of Care

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    2026年

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  • Simon Bratt

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This chapter maps how power, stigma, and moral judgement organise the thresholds of help. Drawing on Foucault, Imogen Tyler, and frontline examples, I show how labels such as “non-compliant” or “not ready” function as exclusion devices, converting structural deprivation into moral deficit. I unpack how language becomes policy; how “helpability” is staged and surveilled; and how people are made administratively invisible when their survival strategies do not match the expected script. The chapter closes by proposing a counter-grammar, one that treats pain as signal, recognises dignity, and refuses conditionality that punishes the very strategies that kept people alive.