دانلود کتاب Deconstructing Brexit Discourses: Embedded Euroscepticism, Fantasy Objects and the United Kingdom’s Vote to Leave the European Union

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Tables Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction Delivering the referendum A critical logics approach Terminology and parameters Overview of the book 2. The research context Explaining the referendum result Turnout Social class Long-term factors The wider research context Euroscepticism The media Euroscepticism and (Anglo-British) national identity Public opinion Right-wing populism Summary 3. Discourse theory, subjectivity and national identity Conceptual framework Equivalence, difference and the limits of discourse Hegemony Discourse theory, Lacan and the subject Laclau and Mouffe's conception of the subject Discourse theory and nationalism The power of nationalist discourses The construction of political enemies Summary 4. Deploying discourse theory Logics of critical explanation Media coverage of the EU treaty reform process 5. Embedded Euroscepticism The nationalist logic of European politics EU politics as a zero-sum game Britain, France and the EU Britain, Germany and the EU The Franco-German alliance The UK's special treatment Britain's European 'other' Positioning Britain and 'Europe' The EU as a colonial power The EU as economic other Europe as cultural 'other' Leaving the European Union Britain as Europe's saviour The hegemony of the Eurosceptic discourse The critical logics of the Eurosceptic discourse Summary 6. Social logics of the Vote Leave discourse The EU as political 'other' (Anti-)democracy Ever closer control EU as foreign, colonial power The EU as economic 'other' The single market International trade The Euro as economic catastrophe The Eurozone as disciplinary control EU as a source of unlimited migration Migration and the European economy Freedom of movement and asylum seekers Immigration as a security threat Summary 7. Political logics of the Vote Leave discourse Constructing the remain elite The national elite The global financial elite Big business Constructing the (Leave) people Old-fashioned common sense Standing up to the remain bullies Voting 'Leave' as a heroic act Immigration as class politics Interpellating the Lexit vote Platitudes of reasonableness Summary 8. Fantasmatic logics of the Vote Leave discourse Horrific dimension: 'hard' remain The Eurozone Opening the floodgates Beatific dimension: taking back control Brexit as national renewal The lyin' and the unicorns: all the benefits and none of the costs EU membership as humiliation Summary 9. Nigel Farage and Leave.EU Social logics Political logics Ordinary decent people Of all parties and none War and legacy for the Brexit veterans Man of the people You are not allowed to talk about (anything except) immigration now Fantasmatic logics: the national is personal Summary 10. Conclusions Brexit as a hegemonic project Brexit as populist insurgency The EU as conceptual challenge The EU as fantasy object Contradictions and choices in the referendum and beyond Beyond Brexit Contribution and limitations Summary References Index