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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Virdee, Satnam
• McGeever, Brendan

Titel

Racism, Crisis, Brexit

Ist Teil von

• Ethnic and racial studies, 2018-08, Vol.41 (10), p.1802-1819

Ort / Verlag

London: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article offers a conjunctural analysis of the financial and political crisis within which Brexit occurred with a specific attentiveness to race and racism. Brexit and its aftermath have been overdetermined by racism, including racist violence. We suggest that the Leave campaign secured its victory by bringing together two contradictory but inter-locking visions. The first comprises an imperial longing to restore Britain's place in the world as primus inter pares that occludes any coming to terms with the corrosive legacies of colonial conquest and racist subjugation. The second takes the form of an insular, Powellite narrative of island retreat from a "globalizing" world, one that is no longer recognizably "British". Further, the article argues that an invisible driver of the Brexit vote and its racist aftermath has been a politicization of Englishness. We conclude by outlining some resources of hope that could potentially help to negotiate the current emergency.