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Deconstructing Brexit Discourses

This book expands on and complements the burgeoning Brexit literature by placing the UKs vote to leave the EU in its longer historical and discursive contexts.

It examines the embedded Euroscepticism, which has dominated British political discourse on the European project, and the role of the UK within it, for at least the last three decades. Brexit was the consequence of a consistent denigration of the European integration project in the public sphere in which the terrain, and the conceptual vocabulary, of debate were set by a dominant, right-wing Eurosceptic discourse. This framed the EU as inherently heterogeneous and antagonistic to the UK. The book examines how ideas of British exceptionalism, which underpin Eurosceptic discourses, are sustained and reproduced and offers an account of their enduring, affective power amongst the British population. It is in this context that it was possible for pro-Brexit campaigners to assemble and enthuse a new coalition of voters sufficient to deliver a leave majority on 23 June 2016.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of British, EU and European politics, the media and press, public opinion, political behaviour and nationalism studies.

Benjamin Hawkins is a Senior Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

Critical European Studies

Series Editor: Yannis A. Stivachtis, Virginia Tech, USA.

Formerly co-edited with Hartmut Behr, Newcastle University, UK.

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Laure Neumayer

Conditionality, EU and Turkey

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Perceptions of the European Unions Identity in International Relations

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European Citizenship and Identity Outside of the European Union

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Agnieszka Weinar

Historic Power Europe

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Davide Barile

Deconstructing Brexit Discourses

Embedded Euroscepticism, Fantasy Objects and the United Kingdoms Vote to Leave the European Union

Benjamin Hawkins

For more information about this series please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Critical-European-Studies/book-series/CEU

Deconstructing Brexit Discourses

Embedded Euroscepticism, Fantasy Objects and the United Kingdoms Vote to Leave the European Union

Benjamin Hawkins

First published 2022

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Names: Hawkins, Benjamin, author.

Title: Deconstructing Brexit discourses : embedded Euroscepticism, fantasyobjects and the United Kingdoms vote to leave the European Union/Benjamin Hawkins.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021011844 (print) | LCCN 2021011845 (ebook) | ISBN9781138299283 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032070124 (paperback) | ISBN9781315098067 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: European UnionGreat Britain. | DiscourseanalysisPolitical aspectsGreat Britain. | ExceptionalismGreat Britain. | Political cultureGreat BritainHistory21st century. | Great BritainForeign relationsEuropean Union countries. | European Union countriesForeign relationsGreat Britain. | Great BritainPolitics and government2007-Classification: LCC JZ1572. A54 H39 2022 (print) | LCC JZ1572. A54 (ebook)| DDC 341.242/20941dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021011844

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021011845

ISBN: 978-1-138-29928-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-07012-4 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-09806-7 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315098067

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For Sandy and all the Europeans we met along the way.

Contents

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Delivering the referendum

A critical logics approach

Terminology and parameters

Overview of the book

The research context

Explaining the referendum result

Turnout

Social class

Long-term factors

The wider research context

Euroscepticism

The media

Euroscepticism and (Anglo-British) national identity

Public opinion

Right-wing populism

Summary

Discourse theory, subjectivity and national identity

Conceptual framework

Equivalence, difference and the limits of discourse

Hegemony

Discourse theory, Lacan and the subject

Laclau and Mouffes conception of the subject

Discourse theory and nationalism

The power of nationalist discourses

The construction of political enemies

Summary

Deploying discourse theory

Logics of critical explanation

Media coverage of the EU treaty reform process

Embedded Euroscepticism

The nationalist logic of European politics

EU politics as a zero-sum game

Britain, France and the EU

Britain, Germany and the EU

The Franco-German alliance

The UKs special treatment

Britains European other

Positioning Britain and Europe

The EU as a colonial power

The EU as economic other

Europe as cultural other

Leaving the European Union

Britain as Europes saviour

The hegemony of the Eurosceptic discourse

The critical logics of the Eurosceptic discourse

Summary

Social logics of the Vote Leave discourse

The EU as political other

(Anti-)democracy

Ever closer control

EU as foreign, colonial power

The EU as economic other

The single market

International trade

The Euro as economic catastrophe

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