Hall, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-3749-6228 (2023) Suet puddings and red pillar boxes: A review of Marc Stears’ Out of the Ordinary. European Journal of Political Theory, 22 (2). pp. 363-372. ISSN 1474-8851
Abstract
Marc Stears’ Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again is an engaging and sincere work of political theory. In it, Stears explores how the work of a number of British writers and artists in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s– Bill Brandt, Barbara Jones, Laurie Lee, George Orwell, JB Priestley and Dylan Thomas– can help us to overcome some of the lazy ideological conventions of our time which suggest it is impossible to simultaneously value tradition and progress, patriotism and diversity, individual rights and social duties, nationalism and internationalism, conservativism and radicalism. In this review, I highlight the timely and engaging elements of Stears’ book while also raising doubts about his treatment of the ‘everyday’ and his Blue Labour solutions to our political ills.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Britain; Marc Stears; nationalism; the everyday; the ordinary |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2023 09:42 |
Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2023 09:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14748851211040173 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196852 |