What's the subject? Brexit and politics as articulation

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ID12397669
AuthorsJ Clarke (0000-0003-3968-4713, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The Open University Milton Keynes UK, corresponding author), Janet Newman (0000-0003-2666-3219, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The Open University Milton Keynes UK)
Year2019
Volume29
Issue1
Pages67-77
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1052-9284 • E-ISSN: 1099-1298
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/casp.2376
OpenAlexW2914443631
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited22

This paper focuses on the moment of Brexit and its political aftermath in order to challenge dominant academic and popular conceptions of the political subject as singular and coherent. Instead, we suggest that there is an urgent political and analytical need for a view of the subject as multiple, contradictory, and dialogic. As interdisciplinary scholars working on the borders of policy studies and cultural studies, we think this is a critical site for transdisciplinary conversations about such conceptions of the subject. In the political field, such subjects are selectively and unevenly addressed and mobilized by political projects—such as Vote Leave—that invite them to recognize themselves as part of an imagined collective identity. In the twin disturbances of the European Union referendum and the 2017 general election, we suggest that it is possible to see that other voicings, other identifications, and other projects remain possible. Specific political mobilizations are neither singular nor stable

Articulation (sociology · Brexit · Economics · European union · Library science · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Psychology

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