Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times

This is the first interdisciplinary edited collection that examines the manifestation of social inequalities and polarisations 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 ra...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1532582025-05-21T05:04:11Z Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times Tyler, Katharine Banducci, Susan Degnen, Cathrine COVID-19,Pandemic,Coronavirus,Brexit,Britain,United Kingdom,UK,British Society,Lockdown,Race,Ethnicity,Class,Migration,Gender,Inequality,Polarisation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology This is the first interdisciplinary edited collection that examines the manifestation of social inequalities and polarisations 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 rather are major ongoing processes that have impacted all aspects of British social and political life. Drawing on an array of empirical case studies conducted in the wake of the Brexit vote and during pandemic lockdowns, chapters trace how these processes illuminate, consolidate, and amplify existing and entrenched social inequalities and polarisations that shape the fabric of British society, including racial, ethnic, class, migrant, national, and gendered inequalities. The volume is divided into three parts centred on (a) the nation; (b) the community; and (c) the media. Each section draws on diverse analytical frameworks and methodological approaches from across the social sciences, arts, and humanities to provide empirically grounded critiques of reductive media-led narratives with the goal of accounting for and explaining the reproduction of social inequalities and emergence of polarisations in these Brexit pandemic times. In so doing, the case studies include critical analysis of lockdown novels; the speeches of political elites from across the political spectrum; ‘ordinary’ people’s everyday traditional and social media practices; as well as their opinions based on the findings of large-scale surveys and in-depth place-based ethnographic fieldwork conducted across rural, urban, and suburban areas of England. Each chapter also includes artwork by contemporary artist Helen Snell that complements, develops, and extends the book’s core themes and arguments.This collection will be insightful reading for students and academics across the social sciences, arts, and humanities (especially from the disciplines of sociology, politics, social anthropology, human geography, sociolinguistics, contemporary art, and literature) concerned with questions of social inequality and polarisation. 2025-02-27T04:13:03Z 2025-02-27T04:13:03Z 2025-02-25T09:59:07Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98919 9781003454137 9781032593135 9781032593159 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/153258 eng open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003454137 10.4324/9781003454137 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Chapter 1 Critically Writing and Sketching Social Inequalities and Polarisation in the Brexit Pandemic Era in Britain Chapter 7 Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia Alongside Non-Elite Cosmopolitanisms in Britain's Most ‘Pro-Brexit’ Town Chapter 11 Everyday Engagements with the BBC Across Leave and Remain Identities, Drawing on Survey Analysis, Ethnographic Interviews, and Ethnographic Case Studies Chapter 2 “Stay at Home” 9781003454137 9781032593135 9781032593159 Routledge open access
spellingShingle COVID-19,Pandemic,Coronavirus,Brexit,Britain,United Kingdom,UK,British Society,Lockdown,Race,Ethnicity,Class,Migration,Gender,Inequality,Polarisation
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times
title Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times
title_full Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times
title_fullStr Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times
title_full_unstemmed Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times
title_short Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times
title_sort reflections on polarisation and inequalities in brexit pandemic times
topic COVID-19,Pandemic,Coronavirus,Brexit,Britain,United Kingdom,UK,British Society,Lockdown,Race,Ethnicity,Class,Migration,Gender,Inequality,Polarisation
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
topic_facet COVID-19,Pandemic,Coronavirus,Brexit,Britain,United Kingdom,UK,British Society,Lockdown,Race,Ethnicity,Class,Migration,Gender,Inequality,Polarisation
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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