Britain and Europe at a crossroads : the politics of anxiety and transformation /
Andrew Ryder.
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Policy Press scholarship online .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.