What Brexit Means

An Anthropology of Polarization and Cultural Change in Britain
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-60293-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 170 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Anthropology of Now

What Brexit Means explores the rise of populism in Britain. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork amongst ideologically committed Brexit activists, it examines the discourse of populism across language, culture, politics, psychology, and cognition. It explains how populism is expressed in terms of ritually renewing social order and solidarity. Rejecting the notion that the territory of populism studies belongs to political science, this book shows how it is in the realm of anthropology - myth, ritual, alterity, consciousness, selfhood - that we witness the most compelling examples of how a phenomena as modern as populism depends upon the same symbolic logics that we find in the premodern world. What Brexit Means is a demonstration of the power of anthropology to explain momentous and poorly predicted transformations in the global order. It will become a benchmark text for those eager for anthropology’s contribution to understanding the political turbulence that is rocking the stability of Western democracies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horder, Max

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Current Affairs
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: What Brexit Means, 2. Chapter One: Britain's Sacred? Sacrifice, Renewal, and the 2019 December General Election, 3. Chapter Two: Britain Alone: Readings on Myth, Fantasy, and Reality, 4. Chapter Three: Carnival and Critique: Towards a Structural-Functionalist Reading of Brexit, 5. Chapter Four: Populist Man as Philosopher: How Magical Consciousness Shapes Conspiracy Fantasy, 6. Conclusion: Brexit Means Brexit

Über Autor(innen)

Max Horder is a cognitive anthropologist working on issues of belief, trust, and identity in modern Europe. He received his PhD in Anthropology at Princeton University for his work on populism in Britain.