Contested Britain

Introduction ~ Marius Guderjan, Hugh Mackay and Gesa Stedman;





Part I: The Politics and Culture of Austerity: Impacts and Resistance;


The Contracting State: Austerity and Public Services ~ Simon Griffiths;


Breaking Britain's Working Class: the Left Out ~ Lisa Mckenzie;


Political Activism and Agency under Austerity and Brexit ~ Tom Montgomery and Maria Grasso;


Culture Matters: Cuts and Resistance ~ Ingrid von Rosenberg;


Agents and Agency in the Face of Austerity and Brexit Uncertainty: the Case of Legal Aid ~ Steven Truxal;





Part II: The Politcs and Discourse of Brexit;


The Economy of Brexit: Performance, Interests and Agency ~ Carlo Morelli;


Brexit Populism: Disenfranchisement and Agency ~ Marius Guderjan and Adrian Wilding;


A Sovereign People? Political Fantasy and Governmental TIme in the Pursuit of Brexit ~ John Clarke;


'Not an International Health Service': Xenophobia, Brexit and the Restoration of National Sovereignty ~ Kirsten Forkert;


'Uni-Culti' Myths and Liberal Dreams: Brexit and Austerity from the Perspective of Migrants ~ Magdalena Nowicka;





Part III: Austerity and Brexit in a Divided Union;


From Brexit to the Break-Up of ... England? Thinking in and Beyond the Nation ~ Allan Cochrane;


Understanding Brexit in Wales: Austerity, Elites and National Identity ~ Hugh Mackay;


Scotland, Brexit and the Broken Promise of Democracy ~ Klaus Stolz;


Brexit, Devolution and Northern Ireland's Political Parties: Differential Solutions, Special Status or Special Arrangements? ~ Derek Birrell and Paul Carmichael;


More Than the Border? Looking at Brexit through Irish Eyes ~ Kevin Bean;





Conclusion ~ Marius Guderjan, Hugh Mackay and Gesa Stedman;