1st Edition
Deconstructing Brexit Discourses Embedded Euroscepticism, Fantasy Objects and the United Kingdom’s Vote to Leave the European Union
By Benjamin Hawkins
Copyright 2022
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
It examines the embedded Euroscepticism, which has dominated British political discourse on the European project and the role of the UK within it for at least the last three decades. Brexit was the consequence of a consistent... Read more
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
Biography
Benjamin Hawkins is a Senior Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.
