This interdisciplinary collection examines social inequalities and polarisation in Britain throughout the dual crises of the Brexit vote and the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume demonstrates that Brexit and the pandemic are not self-contained events, but ongoing processes that have impacted all aspects of British social and political life.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Critically Writing and Sketching Social Inequalities and Polarisation in the Brexit Pandemic Era in Britain Part I - The Nation: Porous and Closed Boundaries 2. "Stay at Home": British Lockdown Novels and the Politics of Home and Homeland in COVID-19 Brexit Britain 3. Us, Them, Other? An Exploration of Boundary Making in Britian and Scotland during Theresa May's First Term in Office 4. "Don't Let 'Em Hear That We're Speaking English": Constructing National and Brexit-related Identities in Oral Interviews 5. Political Identities in Britain During Brexit and Covid: Their Construction and Impact on Preferences and Behaviour Part II - Communities and Workplaces: Racial, Migrant, Class, and Gender Inequalities 6. "I Don't Think They Were Clapping for Me". Home Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic 7. Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia Alongside Non-Elite Cosmopolitanisms in Britain's Most 'Pro-Brexit' Town 8. "Not Men Like Us": Everyday Methodological Whiteness and Respectability in English Sheep Slaughterhouses in the Time of Brexit and Covid-19 9. Racial Nationalisms in Suburban England: Britain's Multiracial Middle-Class in the 21st Century Part III - The Media: On- and Off-line Practices and the Everyday Politics of Polarisation 10. From Brexit to COVID-19: Counter-Politics and Far-Right Politicisation on Social Media
