Britain and Europe at a crossroads : the politics of anxiety and transformation / Andrew Ryder.

By: Ryder, Andrew [author.]Contributor(s): JStor - EBAMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Policy Press scholarship onlinePublication details: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781529200522 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): European Union -- Great Britain | European Union | Nationalism -- Great Britain | Nationalisme -- Grande-Bretagne | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism | Nationalism | Great BritainGenre/Form: Electronic books. | e-books. | History | Livres numériques. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Britain and Europe at a Crossroads : The Politics of Anxiety and TransformationDDC classification: 330.941 LOC classification: HC256.7Other classification: MG 42086 Online resources: e-book Full-text access
Contents:
Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Paradigm Shift, Reflexivity and Securitization -- 1. Brexit Nationalism: History, Crisis and Identity -- 2. The Road to Brexit -- 3. Politics in Focus: The Conservatives -- 4. Politics in Focus: Labour -- 5. The Nationalists: Exclusionary and Civic -- 6. Brexit: Views from Europe -- 7. Boris Johnson: Getting Brexit Done? -- 8. Antidotes to Brexit -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover
Summary: Ryder develops the conceptual framework of securitisation to make sense of the events surrounding the Brexit vote and its aftermath and examines the ways that political elites engineered a politics of fear, insecurity and Brexit nationalism in the run up to the UK's vote to leave the European Union.

Description based upon print version of record.

Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Paradigm Shift, Reflexivity and Securitization -- 1. Brexit Nationalism: History, Crisis and Identity -- 2. The Road to Brexit -- 3. Politics in Focus: The Conservatives -- 4. Politics in Focus: Labour -- 5. The Nationalists: Exclusionary and Civic -- 6. Brexit: Views from Europe -- 7. Boris Johnson: Getting Brexit Done? -- 8. Antidotes to Brexit -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover

Ryder develops the conceptual framework of securitisation to make sense of the events surrounding the Brexit vote and its aftermath and examines the ways that political elites engineered a politics of fear, insecurity and Brexit nationalism in the run up to the UK's vote to leave the European Union.

Includes bibliographical references and index.