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Title Brexit : sociological responses / edited by William Outhwaite
Published London : Anthem Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages)
Series Key issues in modern sociology
Key issues in modern sociology.
Contents Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; Section 1 How Did it Happen?; Chapter (1-4); Chapter One The Increasing Inevitability of That Referendum; Bibliography; Chapter Two Vox Populi: Nationalism, Globalization and the Balance of Power in the Making of Brexit; The Divide; Nationalism; Globalization; The Balance of Social Power; Vox Populi; Conclusion; References; Chapter Three Exit From the Perspective of Entry; Convergence or Divergence?; Neo-liberalism and 'Race'; Post-Imperial Political Economy; Back to the Future?
NotesBibliography; Chapter Four Brexit, Sovereignty and the End of an Ever Closer Union; How Did We Get Here?; Sovereignty Obsolete?; Borderless Europe and Its Discontents; Germany and Its Refugee Policies: Exceptional or Exceptionally Universal?; Sovereignty Shared, Sovereignty Divisive: Whose Debt Is Sovereign?; Concluding Remarks: EU's Sovereignty Paradox; Notes; Bibliography; Section 2 The Politics of Brexit; Chapter (5-9); Chapter Five Populism, Nationalism and Brexit; There Will Always Be an England; Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism; The Great Wen; The Damage Done
The Future of Europe? And the World?Notes; Chapter Six A Tale of Two Constitutions: Whose Legitimacy? Whose Crisis?; An Illness with a Cure; The Cure or the Illness?; The Dialectic of Transnational Democracy; Notes; Chapter Seven Locating Brexit in The Pragmatics of Race, Citizenship and Empire; Race and Class in the Brexit Debates; Conceptualizations of Citizenship; British Citizenship from Empire to Commonwealth; Multicultural British Citizens and Citizenship; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Eight Globalization, Nationalism and the Changing Axes of Political Identity
A Brief History of Political IdentityThe Social Supports of Multiculturalism; Long-Term Implications; Notes; Chapter Nine A Divided Nation in a Divided Europe: Emerging Cleavages and The Crisis of European Integration; Introduction; Explaining Brexit: Divided Societies; Emerging Cleavages; European Integration and Contradictions between Capitalism and Democracy; Conclusion; Notes; References; Section 3 Prospects For/After Brexit; Chapter (10-14); Chapter Ten The EU and Brexit: Processes, Perspectives and Prospects; Processes; United Kingdom; European Union-United Kingdom; European Union
Summary Brexit traces the implications of the UK's projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and social context of the transformation of European and global society
Notes Scenario 2: 'Straight Soft Brexit'
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject European Union
European Union -- Membership.
SUBJECT European Union fast
Union européenne -- Grande-Bretagne. ram
Subject Referendum -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
LAW -- International.
International relations
Membership requirements
Referendum
Référendum -- Grande-Bretagne -- 2016.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Relations -- European Union countries
European Union countries -- Relations -- Great Britain
Subject European Union countries
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne -- Relations -- Pays de l'Union européenne.
Pays de l'Union européenne -- Relations -- Grande-Bretagne.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Outhwaite, William.
ISBN 9781783086474
1783086475
9781783086467
1783086467