1st Edition
What Brexit Means An Anthropology of Polarization and Cultural Change in Britain
By Max Horder
Copyright 2025
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
What Brexit Means
Chapter One
Britain's Sacred? Sacrifice, Renewal, and the 2019 December General Election
Chapter Two
Britain Alone: Readings on Myth, Fantasy, and Reality
Chapter Three
Carnival and Critique: Towards a Structural-Functionalist Reading of Brexit
Chapter Four
Populist Man as Philosopher: How Magical Consciousness Shapes Conspiracy Fantasy
Conclusion
Brexit Means Brexit
Bibliography
Index
Biography
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.
