The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture

John Clarke

Published by Bristol University Press 2023

The Battle for Britain

Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture

John Clarke

https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529227703

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This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction: The Battle for Britain and Conjunctural Thinking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Nations, Nationalisms and the Conjuncture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Turbulent Times: The Making of the Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Pause for Thought 1: The Conjuncture as Space and Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Accounting for Brexit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Thinking Relationally: Class and Its Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Building Blocs: Towards a Politics of Articulation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Pause for Thought 2: Thinking Articulation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
An Accumulation of Crises Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
‘The Best Country in the World’: Race, Culture, History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Holding It Together? The Coercive Turn and the Crises of Party and Bloc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Unstable Equilibria: The Life of the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
The Battle for Britain – and Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

Language: English
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 252

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Published: May 24, 2023
ISBN: 9781529227703