Contested Britain: Brexit, Austerity and Agency

ISBN-13: 9781529205022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Marius Guderjan; Hugh MacKay; Gesa Stedman

Opis

Brings together interdisciplinary and international case studies to provide a distinctive analysis of how politics in the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, focusing on the interconnectedness of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics.

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Introduction ~ Marius Guderjan, Hugh Mackay and Gesa Stedman; Part I: The Politics and Culture of Austerity: Impacts and Resistance; The Contracting State: Austerity and Public Services ~ Simon Griffiths; Breaking Britain's Working Class: the Left Out ~ Lisa Mckenzie; Political Activism and Agency under Austerity and Brexit ~ Tom Montgomery and Maria Grasso; Culture Matters: Cuts and Resistance ~ Ingrid von Rosenberg; Agents and Agency in the Face of Austerity and Brexit Uncertainty: the Case of Legal Aid ~ Steven Truxal; Part II: The Politcs and Discourse of Brexit; The Economy of Brexit: Performance, Interests and Agency ~ Carlo Morelli; Brexit Populism: Disenfranchisement and Agency ~ Marius Guderjan and Adrian Wilding; A Sovereign People? Political Fantasy and Governmental TIme in the Pursuit of Brexit ~ John Clarke; 'Not an International Health Service': Xenophobia, Brexit and the Restoration of National Sovereignty ~ Kirsten Forkert; 'Uni-Culti' Myths and Liberal Dreams: Brexit and Austerity from the Perspective of Migrants ~ Magdalena Nowicka; Part III: Austerity and Brexit in a Divided Union; From Brexit to the Break-Up of ... England? Thinking in and Beyond the Nation ~ Allan Cochrane; Understanding Brexit in Wales: Austerity, Elites and National Identity ~ Hugh Mackay; Scotland, Brexit and the Broken Promise of Democracy ~ Klaus Stolz; Brexit, Devolution and Northern Ireland's Political Parties: Differential Solutions, Special Status or Special Arrangements? ~ Derek Birrell and Paul Carmichael; More Than the Border? Looking at Brexit through Irish Eyes ~ Kevin Bean; Conclusion ~ Marius Guderjan, Hugh Mackay and Gesa Stedman;