Affective Polarisation
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Affective Polarisation

Social Inequality in the UK after Austerity, Brexit and COVID-19

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Affective Polarisation

Social Inequality in the UK after Austerity, Brexit and COVID-19

About this book

Inequality is an ever-present danger in our society. This important book addresses the crucial nexus between the lived experience of inequality and how it shapes political responses.

With contributors from the UK and Continental Europe, the book compiles case studies with theoretically informed discussions of the relationship between affective polarisation, social inequality and the fall-out from Brexit and COVID-19. Using a broad concept of social inequality, the book incorporates aspects of economy and society, language, and emotion culture, as well as interviews and film in historical and transnational perspectives.

The contributors offer a powerful examination of the ways in which the politics of the UK and the lived experiences of its residents have been reframed in the first decades of the 21st century.

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Yes, you can access Affective Polarisation by Jana Gohrisch,Gesa Stedman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Comparative Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The Divided Left in the UK: Partisanship, Ideology and Class after Brexit
  10. 2 Populism and the People: Elitism, Authoritarianism and Libertarianism
  11. 3 ‘Coloring the Utterance with Some Kind of Perceivable Affect’: Constructing ‘Country’ and ‘People’ in Speeches by Theresa May and Boris Johnson – A Linguistic Perspective
  12. 4 The Challenges of Polarisation: Lessons for (Re-)Politicising Inequality across Four English Towns
  13. 5 “Go Away, But Don’t Leave Us”: Affective Polarisation and the Precarisation of Romanian Essential Workers in the UK
  14. 6 Racialised Affective Polarisation in the UK
  15. 7 “Now You Have to Listen”: A Historical Analysis of Britain’s Left-Behind Communities
  16. 8 Britain in a State of Emergency: Studying Ken Loach’s Films I, Daniel Blake (2016) and Sorry We Missed You (2019)
  17. 9 Cloaking Class: Making the Working Class Visible
  18. 10 Class, Poverty and Inequality in Scotland: Independence and the Creation of Affective Polarisations
  19. 11 Language and Identity: The Taliesin Tradition
  20. Conclusion
  21. Index