Social Movements, Brexit and Social Policy

Ishkanian, Armine

doi:10.1017/s1474746418000404

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“…Authors addressing the consequences of Brexit have focused on the potential damage to national prosperity and the future likelihood of greater socio-cultural polarisation (Dagnis et al, 2016;Guldi, 2017;Morgan, 2017;Oliver, 2017), while a smaller number of commentators have emphasised the opportunities that Brexit has provided for future leftist activism and social movements (e.g. Roth, 2018;Ishkanian, 2019).…”

Section: Introduction: Interpreting Brexitmentioning

confidence: 99%

From eating cake to crashing out: constructing the myth of a no-deal Brexit

Kettell

Kerr

2019

Comp Eur Polit

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This article traces the emergence and development of claims that the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union delivered a mandate for a so-called 'no deal' Brexit. Utilising Lacanian ideas about group mobilisation combined with a detailed content analysis and evidence drawn from polling data, it shows that this no deal narrative should be viewed as a discursive project that was constructed by a section of Leave campaigners relatively late into the Brexit process amidst growing disillusionment with the direction that negotiations with the EU were taking. By emphasising the role of Brexit as an 'empty signifier' the article shows that Brexit was initially successful in mobilising and uniting a disparate, but often unconnected, range of discontent to its cause. However, over time the complexities of the Brexit process triggered a discursive 'war of position' as competing visions of Brexit attempted to vie for dominance amongst the Leave camp. It is within this context that the myth of no deal emerged as an attempt by an elite group of actors to re-mobilise support for their cause.

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Section: Introduction: Interpreting Brexitmentioning

confidence: 99%

From eating cake to crashing out: constructing the myth of a no-deal Brexit

Kettell

Kerr

2019

Comp Eur Polit

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“…One study involving a multinational research project on civic engagement and political participation described the relationship as being affected by the interaction of distal macro contextual, demographic, proximal social, and endogenous psychological factors at different levels with political interest and internal efficacy as having a consistent effect (Barrett & Brunton-Smith, 2014). Another study investigating the relationship between Social Movements, Brexit, and Social Policy observed that the diverse individuals involved in civic engagement were motivated by their experience of neoliberal austerity and effects of globalisation (Ishkanian, 2019). Civic engagement with regards to political participation is also evident through the use of social media.…”

Section: Social Mediamentioning

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Media Consumption and Civic Engagement: The Reasoned Action Theory as a Way Forward to Determine The Relationship

Ramanair¹

2020

JKMJC

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Communication is important to enable ideas to be transformed into informed actions. As such, the media used for such communication is crucial and play an important role in broadcasting the information. The proliferation of the Internet has greatly enhanced the important role of the media and changed the landscape of the media industry. In addition to conventional media, consumers are now able to access a variety of social media applications. Both types of media are important and needs to be considered as it continues to be consumed across demographics and play important roles in communicating information. Further, both types of media are capable of informing and shaping the views of consumers in a variety of areas from the political to the social. The important question remains as to whether increased availability, access, and connectivity to the various types of media and the information provided have enabled opportunities to media consumers to engage in discussions to stimulate civic engagement leading to activism. Research investigating users' media consumption and civic engagement with issues explored is largely not well theorised and often offer inconclusive or conflicting results. As such, the ensuing discussion proposes a way forward utilising the Reasoned Action Theory to determine the relationship between media consumption and civic engagement.

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“…Other analyses point to complexity in being ‘left behind’ or ‘left out’ and its expression in the referendum. As Ishkanian (2018) states, the ‘left behind’ concept also misses the fluidity of insecurity and precariousness today, where many of those involved in social movements such as Occupy – younger, urban, mobile, multicultural, often highly educated – have also borne the brunt of neoliberal austerity and the consequences of globalisation. However, overall this latter group is more likely to have voted Remain in the Referendum, reflecting the contradictory nature of the neoliberal impulse and societal concerns within both the EU and the UK.…”

Section: The Brexit Votementioning

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Between Neoliberalism and Nationalist Populism: What Role for the ‘European Social Model’ and Social Quality in Post-Brexit Europe?

Corbett¹,

Walker²

2018

Social Policy and Society

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This article investigates the idea of ‘the social’ in Europe after the UK's EU Referendum vote, with reference to the ‘European social model’. It is argued that the key drivers of the vote outcome did not feature in the referendum campaign but are features of longer running and deeper fractures in both British and wider European society. Especially, the lack of response to societal problems, the downplaying of individual participation, and a crisis in democracy created by an increasingly neoliberal direction within an EU concerned with austerity and social control, contrary to the values of the ‘European social model’ (Walker, 2005). In the absence of action for better ‘social quality’, this overall neoliberal direction has also weakened the progressive and integrative potential of social policy. The result is the regressive nationalist populist backlash against neoliberal technocracy. Instead, we argue that answers to contemporary European challenges must focus on improving social quality and democracy.

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Social Movements, Brexit and Social Policy

Cited by 3 publications

References 54 publications

From eating cake to crashing out: constructing the myth of a no-deal Brexit

From eating cake to crashing out: constructing the myth of a no-deal Brexit

Media Consumption and Civic Engagement: The Reasoned Action Theory as a Way Forward to Determine The Relationship

Between Neoliberalism and Nationalist Populism: What Role for the ‘European Social Model’ and Social Quality in Post-Brexit Europe?

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