English Nationalism and its Ghost Towns

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ID8104302
AuthorsLuke Telford (0000-0003-1651-7963, corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-04-06
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEnglish Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003198666
OpenAlexW4225524309
Open LibraryOL36271875M
ISBN9781003198666
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In order to understand today’s nationalism, we need to address the historical decline of working-class communities, the sense of loss brought by deindustrialisation and how working-class people have been denied a voice in society and politics. Discontent has manifested strongly in these deprived post-industrial areas, often branded as communities that have been left behind under neoliberal globalisation. Whilst more and more people are voicing their discontent with a system that fails to provide social security and economic stability, many researchers have branded them merely as racists, xenophobes and ill educated. Although prejudices are likely to play a part in all political outcomes, today’s dissatisfaction across the West cannot be reduced to mere emotion and intolerance. This book therefore utilises on-the-ground research with working-class individuals in a Leave voting locale in Britain, exploring their discontent with politicians, the Labour Party, the European Union, immigration, refugees and the prolonged calls for a second referendum. It situates this sentiment towards society and politics within the decline of capitalism's post-war era and the loss of well-paid industrial jobs, increase in non-unionised service employment and the hollowing out of community spirit

Nationalism · Political science · Politics · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Cities · Cities and towns · Industrie · Industries · Industry · Nationalisme · Political Ideologies · Social classes · Social Science · Villes

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