Hay, C. orcid.org/0000-0001-6327-6547 (2024) Imagining Brexit, reimagining Britain. British Politics, 19 (4). pp. 473-493. ISSN 1746-918X
Abstract
There are times in the political life of any nation in which its imagining and reimagining become more intensely political, more conscious and more consciously intersubjective. Brexit has provided, provides today and will surely continue to provide a series of such moments. In and through a critical appreciation of Benedict Anderson’s famous reflections on the nation as an ‘imagined community', I consider the (necessarily) imagined character of Brexit and the reimaginings of Britain that its imagining envisaged. I reflect on whether—and if so how and in what ways—‘actually existing Brexit’ is likely to pose a reality check on imagined Brexit, exploring in the process some of the wider political implications.
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Keywords: | Brexit; Imagined community; Nation; Positional issues; Valence issues |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Research Institutes Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2023 15:44 |
Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2024 14:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/s41293-023-00236-z |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202375 |