Guderjan / Mackay / Stedman Contested Britain

Brexit, Austerity and Agency
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0503-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and consequences of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics in Britain.

Bringing together case studies and perspectives from an array of international researchers across the social sciences, it dissects the ways that the UK has become increasingly contested with profound differences of geography, generation, gender, ‘race’ and class, and considers agency as a key concept to understand the links between austerity and Brexit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guderjan, Marius

Mackay, Hugh

Stedman, Gesa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carmichael, Paul

Birrell, Derek

Stolz, Klaus

Mackay, Hugh

Cochrane, Allan

Nowicka, Magdalena

Forkert, Kirsten

Clarke, John

Guderjan, Marius

Morelli, Carlo

Truxal, Steven

Von Rosenberg, Ingrid

Grasso, Maria

Montgomery, Thomas

McKenzie, Lisa

Griffiths, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

Birrell, Derek
Derek Birrell is Professor of Social Administration at Ulster University.

Stedman, Gesa
Gesa Stedman is Professor of British Culture and Literature at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Marius Guderjan is Lecturer and Researcher at the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Hugh Mackay is Honorary Associate in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University, UK.

Gesa Stedman is Professor at the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.