Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Paradigm Shift, Reflexivity and Securitization -- 1. Brexit Nationalism: History, Crisis and Identity -- 2. The Road to Brexit -- 3. Politics in Focus: The Conservatives -- 4. Politics in Focus: Labour -- 5. The Nationalists: Exclusionary and Civic -- 6. Brexit: Views from Europe -- 7. Boris Johnson: Getting Brexit Done? -- 8. Antidotes to Brexit -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover
Summary
Ryder develops the conceptual framework of securitisation to make sense of the events surrounding the Brexit vote and its aftermath and examines the ways that political elites engineered a politics of fear, insecurity and Brexit nationalism in the run up to the UK's vote to leave the European Union
