Deconstructing Brexit Discourses: Embedded Euroscepticism, Fantasy Objects and the United Kingdom's Vote to Leave the European Union

ISBN-13: 9781138299283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 192 str.

Benjamin Hawkins

Opis

This book expands on and complements the burgeoning Brexit literature by placing the UK’s vote to leave the EU in its longer historical and discursive contexts.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Research Context  3. Discourse Theory, Subjectivity and National Identity  4. Deploying Discourse Theory  5. Embedded Euroscepticism  6. Social Logics of the Vote Leave Discourse  7. Political Logics of the Vote Leave Discourse  8. Fantasmatic Logics of the Vote Leave Discourse  9. Nigel Farage and Leave.EU  10. Conclusions

O autorze

Benjamin Hawkins is a Senior Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.