Temporalities of Emergent Axiomatic Violence in Brexit Scotland

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ID2145146
AutoresGabriela Manley (0000-0002-3692-8180, Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen31
Número3
Páginas275-290
Fecha de publicación2021-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2021.1969642
OpenAlexW3193706103
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas43

Following an acrimonious referendum on European Union membership, the UK was plunged into chaos as people attempted to negotiate a deeply divided domestic political landscape. In Scotland, things were further complicated by the independence question and the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) call for a second independence referendum. In light of the Brexit result, since 2016 many citizens of Scotland have re-thought their position on independence owing to emergent axiomatic violence located in the UK’s split from Europe. This article examines the different temporalities involved with the emergent axiomatic violence of Brexit as experienced in Scotland. For those who once supported the Union, Brexit is understood as a moment of violent and unforeseen rupture, emerging from a one-off event in the present. In contrast, nationalists speak of Brexit as representative of the accretive slow violence brought on through historical imbalances in UK politics; Brexit was to be expected, emerging from long-term processes. For EU migrants, the violence of Brexit is built into their futures, as they contemplate work and family life in a drastically changed socio-political landscape. Although the ‘emergent’ aspect of the violence inherent in Brexit is dependent on perspective, all agree that the violence is axiomatic, part of everyday life in Brexit Britain

Brexit · Economics · European union · Independence (probability theory · International trade · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Sociology · Temporalities · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies