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Contested Britain : Brexit, Austerity and Agency /

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 vo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bean, Kevin (Contribuidor), Birrell, Derek (Contribuidor), Carmichael, Paul (Contribuidor), Clarke, John (Contribuidor), Cochrane, Allan (Contribuidor), Forkert, Kirsten (Contribuidor), Grasso, Maria (Contribuidor), Griffiths, Simon (Contribuidor), Guderjan, Marius (Contribuidor, Editor ), Mackay, Hugh (Contribuidor, Editor ), Mckenzie, Lisa (Contribuidor), Montgomery, Tom (Contribuidor), Morelli, Carlo (Contribuidor), Nowicka, Magdalena (Contribuidor), Stedman, Gesa (Contribuidor, Editor ), Stolz, Klaus (Contribuidor), Truxal, Steven (Contribuidor), Wilding, Adrian (Contribuidor), von Rosenberg, Ingrid (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The Politics and Culture of Austerity: Impacts and Resistance
  • The Contracting State: Austerity and Public Services
  • Breaking Britain's Working Class: the Left Out
  • Political Activism and Agency under Austerity and Brexit
  • Culture Matters: Cuts and Resistance
  • Agents and Agency in the Face of Austerity and Brexit Uncertainty: the Case of Legal Aid
  • The Politics and Discourse of Brexit
  • The Economy of Brexit: Performance, Interests and Agency
  • Brexit Populism: Disenfranchisement and Agency
  • A Sovereign People? Political Fantasy and Governmental Time in the Pursuit of Brexit
  • 'Not an International Health Service': Xenophobia, Brexit and the Restoration of National Sovereignty
  • 'Uni-Culti' Myths and Liberal Dreams: Brexit and Austerity from the Perspective of Migrants
  • Austerity and Brexit in a Divided Union
  • From Brexit to the Break-Up of ... England? Thinking in and Beyond the Nation
  • Understanding Brexit in Wales: Austerity, Elites and National Identity
  • Scotland, Brexit and the Broken Promise of Democracy
  • Brexit, Devolution and Northern Ireland's Political Parties: Differential Solutions, Special Status or Special Arrangements?
  • More Than the Border? Looking at Brexit through Irish Eyes
  • Conclusion
  • Index