Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times: Fractured Lives in Britain [Hardcover]

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 Mays First Term in Office? 4. Dont Let Em Hear That Were 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 Dont Think They Were Clapping for Me. Home Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic? 7. Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia Alongside Non-Elite Cosmopolitanisms in Britains 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: Britains 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??11. Everyday Engagements with the BBC Across Leave and Remain Identities, Drawing on Survey Analysis, Ethnographic Interviews, and Ethnographic Case Studies

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.

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