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Understanding 'the economy' in Brexit Britain

Anna Killick (Autor)

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2020
168 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4518-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Most people find it hard to define 'the economy' beyond saying it is 'to do with money'. Through ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, this book explores what 'the economy' means to people's lives and what goes through their minds when they hear politicians talking about it.

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In Brexit Britain, talk of 'the economy' dominates; however, we know surprisingly little about how people understand this term. In the aftermath of the 2008 crash and decades of neoliberalism, how are understandings of 'the economy' changing, and is it the case that Remain supporters care more about 'the economy' than Leave supporters? This timely and insightful book argues that people with similar experiences of the economy share an understanding of the term, regardless of whether they supported Leave or Remain. Through extensive ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, Anna Killick explores what people from a range of backgrounds understand about key aspects of 'the economy', including employment, austerity, trade and the economic effects of migration.

Autor

Anna Killick is a Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at University College London

Inhalt

1 What is ‘the economy’?
2 Researching understandings of ‘the economy’
3 Provisioning: ‘whole buildings have disappeared’
4 ‘Government debt is not an issue’
5 Trade and migration: ‘other people’
6 ‘The word economy is hollow’
7 Formal and rigged versions of 'the economy' in Brexit Britain
8 ‘Economically, something new, something different’
Appendix
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Political Ethnography
• Zusatzinfo: 6 graphs
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Brexit Britain • Brexit identities • Categorisation of economic • depoliticisation • Interpretivist ethnography • Neoliberalism • Representations of the economy • Rigged economy • Trust of economic expertise • Understandings of the economy
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-4518-9 / 1526145189
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4518-5 / 9781526145185