Making sense of Brexit : democracy, Europe and uncertain futures / Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
By: Seidler, Victor J [author].
Series: 21st century standpoints: Publisher: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, ©2018Description: 255 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781447345206.Other title: Democracy, Europe and uncertain futures.Subject(s): European Union -- Great Britain | Public opinion -- Great Britain | Referendum -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century | Democracy -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2007- | Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 1997- | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1997- | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: History. | Print books.Summary: After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger against political elites and people feeling estranged from a political process and economic system that no longer expressed their will. Seidler argues that we need new political imaginations across class, race, religion, gender and sexuality to engage in issues about the scale and acceleration of urban change and the time people need to adjust to new realities. He suggests we need to listen to people's concerns not only about the impact of immigration and globalisation on their lives but also about the injustice of a capitalist economy that makes them pay through austerity and cuts in social welfare for a financial crisis they were not responsible for. He imagines alternative futures that will allow different generations to still appreciate themselves as Europeans with a future in Europe. --| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index
After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger against political elites and people feeling estranged from a political process and economic system that no longer expressed their will. Seidler argues that we need new political imaginations across class, race, religion, gender and sexuality to engage in issues about the scale and acceleration of urban change and the time people need to adjust to new realities. He suggests we need to listen to people's concerns not only about the impact of immigration and globalisation on their lives but also about the injustice of a capitalist economy that makes them pay through austerity and cuts in social welfare for a financial crisis they were not responsible for. He imagines alternative futures that will allow different generations to still appreciate themselves as Europeans with a future in Europe. --