Brexit’s identity politics and the question of subjectivity

Mintchev, Nikolay; Moore, Henrietta L.

doi:10.1057/s41282-019-00139-3

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“…At their core, the campaigns of the Brexit advocates were driven by a discourse that identified threats to the well-being and integrity to the nation by negatively depicting the ethno-cultural Other (Mintchev & Moore, 2019). However, one needs to be cautious in making a direct causal link between Brexit and deepening political cleavages in British society related to issues of migration, identity and diversity.…”

Section: Politicizing Migration and Cross-border Mobility During The Brexit Campaignmentioning

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‘Winning Back Control’: Migration, Borders and Visions of Political Community

Schmidtke

2021

International Studies

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This article focuses on the governance of migration and borders as key issues of Brexit in a dual sense: as a contested political issue centrally fueling the Brexit debates and as an area of policy formation. First, the article addresses how Brexit has changed free movement as a key principle of the European integration project and transformed cross-border mobility between the European Union (EU) and the UK in a post-Brexit European border regime. Second, it discusses how the politicization of migration during the Brexit campaign has accentuated competing visions of political community. With a view to the effects of Brexit on the governance of migration and borders in Europe, the article demonstrates how the Brexit debates have emphasized the prominence of exclusionary nationalism, while they have simultaneously created new opportunities for the EU to launch a major reform of its migration and asylum policies.

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Section: Politicizing Migration and Cross-border Mobility During The Brexit Campaignmentioning

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‘Winning Back Control’: Migration, Borders and Visions of Political Community

Schmidtke

2021

International Studies

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“…The last decades, we see the spread of collective actions and changes in its regulation (Nagy, 2019), the strengthening of participation to the social arena and to the communities, while there is also a strong polarization (Campbell, 2006, Down & Wilson 2008Baldassarri & Park, 2020) all around the world fueled by identity politics (Mintchev & Moore, 2019;Tsatsanis et al, 2020;McNeil-Willson et al, 2019). Manifest is the dialogical nature of value based knowledge related to dynamic identifications and available representations in the context, information becomes fake news between social network bubbles, and values tried to be re-and renegotiated on the surface, values concerning nature-human relation, ways of co-living, boundaries, leadership, etc.…”

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Social Representations of Heroes: Triggers from the Past, Values in the Present, Patterns for the Future

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The representations of heroes and the heroic acts point to social values, norms, and morality of the present, creating a bridge between the past and a potential future. In this paper, a cross-cultural explorative study of heroes is presented aiming to explore general tendencies and possible patterns related to the different social contexts. Participants were reached from seven countries via social media (N = 974) for corpus construction. We asked by their choice of hero, national hero, and desired heroic action in their respective countries. A thematic analysis was conducted. Results show that there is a high rate of no choice, while among the chosen the prototypical hero is a lone moral man acting in the private (family) or public sphere (political actors). Both spheres offer the naturalization of the hero. There is a dialogical frame between the exceptional and the ordinary. Chosen heroes are dominantly contemporary males’ family members or political figures. While the purpose attributed to the personal hero is to maintain stability, the purpose attributed to the heroic actions of the public sphere is to obtain change. Similarities and differences between the seven subcorpuses are also described.

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“…More specifically, the paper suggests the following three interdependent apparatuses at play in national-populism narratives and in the Brexit narrative which lead to an effective and affective interpellation: fantasy, jouissance and loss (and the role desire plays in all three). Fantasy entails the Brexit narrative of promising closure and the fulfilment of the national-populist vision, but at the same time rendering a certain subject/object the cause of the Brexit failure [8]. The Brexit fantasy, as I previously argued [7], is a failure-based utopia that is able to produce and keep the nationalpopulist subjectivity at bay, suspended between the futurity of closure [40,41] and that which is in its way, the immigrant and the EU.…”

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‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism

Mandelbaum

2020

Int J Semiot Law

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How could we understand the emotive power of national-populist discourses, indeed the calls to 'make our country great again'? This paper directly tackles the recent Brexit discourse, within the broader context of rising national-populist sentiments. I offer a novel way of reading national-populism and the politics of subjectivity as I put forth a Lacanian-psychoanalytical framework, namely the void at the heart of national-populism narratives and thus their ability to produce and hail nationalpopulist subjectivities, particularly through 'fantasy', 'jouissance' and the promise to recapture loss. I suggest that national-populism discourses appeal emotively and thus interpellate, at least partially, their subjects by offering unity and a 'fullness to come', the promise of filling the void, the promise of full jouissance. Since such national closure and unity are unattainable national-populism discourses must appeal to lost golden eras of greatness and by rendering the Other the cause of their failure.

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Brexit’s identity politics and the question of subjectivity

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

‘Winning Back Control’: Migration, Borders and Visions of Political Community

‘Winning Back Control’: Migration, Borders and Visions of Political Community

Social Representations of Heroes: Triggers from the Past, Values in the Present, Patterns for the Future

‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism

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