The lines of descent of the present crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4935534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Satnam Virdee (0000-0001-8995-0827, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 458-476 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380261221150341 |
| OpenAlex | W4318480834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 30 |
The neoliberal settlement has been comprehensively destabilised by the 2007 financial crisis, the imposition of austerity, growing social inequalities and the emergence of populism as a social force. This article explores why institutional opposition to this settlement has principally taken a nationalist form in Britain. It does so through a history of the present by tracing the labyrinthine lines of descent and the social forces and conflicts from which the contemporary moment emerged. In particular, I show how the conditions for the emergence of these nationalist projects were produced incrementally over time and through a series of interrelated social processes. These included the caesura of the 1970s and the shift from Fordist to flexible regimes of accumulation secured by extinguishing the educated hope generated by an increasingly multi-ethnic politics and language of class; the bipartisan commitment to neoliberalism; the racialisation of class through state multiculturalism; and the long-term failure to arrest the structural decline of non-urban localities caused by the technical decomposition of class. In this explanation, the 2007 financial crash and the continuing indifference of the political elites to the deepening injuries of class and locality constituted an accelerant placed on an already emergent crisis of representation helping to engineer a transformation in the political opportunity structure by opening a space for nationalist mobilising structures to fill the political vacuum
Austerity · Economics · Economy · Fordism · Nationalism · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Capitalism and Slavery
Revolting Subjects
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Racism after 'race relations'
Policing the Crisis
Race and the Undeserving Poor
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider
Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914–1964
Habeas Viscus
Migrant labour, racism and the British National Health Service
New Labour's Double-shuffle
Racism and the working class
New Labour’s White Heart
Trade unions and socialist politics
The Politics of Reform and the Making of the Second Reform Act, 1848–1867
Brexit, British People of Colour in the EU-27 and everyday racism in Britain and Europe
The condition of postmodernity
Shame on Us
A Nation Divided
Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution
British Black Power
Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
The Making of the English Working Class
Crisis Neoliberalism and Regimes of Permanent Exception
Striking back against racist violence in the East End of London, 1968-1970
Racism, Crisis, Brexit
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |