Revisiting New Right citizenship discourse in Thatcher’s Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6255686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nam-Kook Kim (Korea University, Korea,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 208-235 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnicities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468796810361819 |
| OpenAlex | W2022908741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 37 |
The aim of this article is to examine the rationales that Thatcher’s Britain employed in dealing with immigration and multicultural policies. With a focus on the responsible political elite hypothesis, I trace the role of New Right citizenship discourse as a combined reflection of elite behaviors as well as mass concerns. I analyze various writings and remarks of Enoch Powell as a precursor of the New Right, and those of Margaret Thatcher as an executor of the New Right, discourses of the reconstruction of the British nation and the bringing back of the active citizen as the main campaign of the New Right, and the emergence of two nations and controversies over the cause of this cleavage as a probable policy outcome of the New Right. Through the theoretical account of New Right citizenship as an unstable combination of libertarian individualism and republican conservatism, I offer an interpretation of post-war Britain that can explain the relationship between the shift toward neo-liberalism and shifts in immigration conceptions and multicultural policies
Citizenship · Cleavage (geology · Conservatism · Elite · Immigration · Individualism · Interpretation (philosophy · Liberalism · Multiculturalism · New Right · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Political Impact of Mass Media
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New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality
Justice and the Politics of Difference
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Citizenship and Moral Narcissism
Enoch Powell and the Powellites
Britain against Itself
Aliens and Citizens
Immigration as a Political Dilemma in Britain
Ideas, Norms, and Culture in Political Analysis
Integrating Ideas into Policy-Making Analysis
When Do Ideas Matter
Enoch Powell and the Powellites
The retreat of multiculturalism in the liberal state
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |