Clarke, John and Newman, Janet
(2017).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2017.1282376 |
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Abstract
In June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, creating massive political turmoil and controversy. Our aim in this paper is to contribute to a discussion about how to analyze such critical moments in policy and politics. Rather than searching for one ‘real’ cause (whether the micro-politics of the Conservative Party or popular disaffection from neo-liberalism), we offer a form of conjunctural analysis that highlights issues of multiplicity and heterogeneity. We sketch this approach and then explore two puzzles that have particular pertinence for Critical Policy Studies. One is the puzzle of populism: how new imaginings and representations of the ‘British people’ were constructed. The second is the puzzle of expertise; how antipathy to ‘expert’ knowledge was shaped to challenge British and European ‘elites’. Conjunctural analysis, we argue, offers a vital means of engaging with such puzzles, and of grasping the heterogeneous and contradictory forces, tendencies, and pressures that enabled Brexit.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2017 Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham |
| ISSN: | 1946-018X |
| Keywords: | Austerity; articulation; populism; neo-liberalism; social forces; conjuncture; Brexit |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology > Social Policy & Criminology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Item ID: | 50170 |
| Depositing User: | Janet Newman |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2017 15:44 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2018 14:31 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/50170 |
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