Deconstructing Brexit Discourses: Embedded Euroscepticism, Fantasy Objects and the United Kingdom’s Vote...

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Benjamin Hawkins (University of Cambridge, UK)

Deconstructing Brexit Discourses

Embedded Euroscepticism, Fantasy Objects and the United Kingdom’s Vote to Leave the European...

Benjamin Hawkins (University of Cambridge, UK)

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English

Routledge
31 May 2023

Humanities; Media studies; Political campaigning & advertising; Press & journalism

Series: Critical European Studies

This book expands on and complements the burgeoning Brexit literature by placing the UK’s vote to leave the EU in its longer historical and discursive contexts.

It examines the embedded Euroscepticism, which has dominated British political discourse on the European project and the role of the UK within it for at least the last three decades. Brexit was the consequence of a consistent denigration of the European integration project in the public sphere in which the terrain, and the conceptual vocabulary, of debate were set by a dominant, right-wing Eurosceptic discourse. This framed the EU as inherently heterogeneous and antagonistic to the UK. The book examines how ideas of British exceptionalism, which underpin Eurosceptic discourses, are sustained and reproduced and offers an account of their enduring, affective power amongst the British population. It is in this context that it was possible for pro-Brexit campaigners to assemble and enthuse a new coalition of voters sufficient to deliver a ‘leave’ majority on 23 June 2016.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of British, EU and European politics, the media and press, public opinion, political behaviour and nationalism studies.

By: Benjamin Hawkins (University of Cambridge UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9781032070124
ISBN 10: 1032070129
Series: Critical European Studies
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. The Research Context 3. Discourse Theory, Subjectivity and National Identity 4. Deploying Discourse Theory 5. Embedded Euroscepticism 6. Social Logics of the Vote Leave Discourse 7. Political Logics of the Vote Leave Discourse 8. Fantasmatic Logics of the Vote Leave Discourse 9. Nigel Farage and Leave.EU 10. Conclusions

Benjamin Hawkins is a Senior Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.