Gellwitzki, Nicolai, Houde, Anne-Marie, Rogers, Lauren et al. (1 more author) (2024) Keep Calm and Carry on?:Fissure, Perception, and Narrative Contestation Following the Demise of the Crown. International Political Sociology. olae042. ISSN 1749-5687
Abstract
On 8 September 2022, after more than 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The responses among the public, media, and state institutions to the news were varied, with competing views on the role of the monarchy and the legacy of the queen. The questions this article seeks to answer are 1) how the monarch’s death introduced a fissure into the UK's autobiographical narrative and 2) how exactly this moment led on the one hand to efforts to reaffirm the dominant UK autobiographical narrative and on the other to efforts to contest this narrative. In framing this analysis using Gestalt psychology, we theorise the role of perception in subjects’ experience of a fissure as well as their subsequent attempts to manage the ensuing anxieties. We show how perception enables and guides avenues for narrative contestation as well as conservative attempts to (re)establish the predominant autobiographical narrative by exploring how the government and the royal family sought to create a sense of continuity and transfer royal authority onto the next generation whilst activists attempted to subvert this established narrative to problematise the country’s (post)colonial history and societal inequalities.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) (2024) |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2024 10:50 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2025 00:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae042 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/ips/olae042 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:220438 |
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