Imagining Brexit, reimagining Britain

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

British Politics Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI:10.1057/s41293-023-00236-z

Colin Hay

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Abstract

Abstract There are times in the political life of any nation in which its imagining and reimagining become more intensely political, more conscious and more consciously intersubjective. Brexit has provided, provides today and will surely continue to provide a series of such moments. In and through a critical appreciation of Benedict Anderson’s famous reflections on the nation as an ‘imagined community', I consider the (necessarily) imagined character of Brexit and the reimaginings of Britain that its imagining envisaged. I reflect on whether—and if so how and in what ways—‘actually existing Brexit’ is likely to pose a reality check on imagined Brexit, exploring in the process some of the wider political implications.

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想象英国脱欧，重新想象英国

在任何一个国家的政治生活中，都有这样的时候，它的想象和再想象变得更加强烈的政治性，更加有意识和更加有意识的主体间性。英国脱欧带来了一系列这样的时刻，现在是这样，将来肯定还会继续这样。通过对本尼迪克特·安德森(Benedict Anderson)关于英国是一个“想象的共同体”的著名反思的批判性欣赏，我考虑了英国脱欧(必然)是想象出来的特征，以及它的想象所设想的对英国的重新想象。我思考“实际存在的英国脱欧”是否——如果是——可能对想象中的英国脱欧构成现实检查，如何以及以何种方式进行检查，并在此过程中探索一些更广泛的政治影响。

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British Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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2.40

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： British Politics offers the only forum explicitly designed to promote research in British political studies, and seeks to provide a counterweight to the growing fragmentation of this field during recent years. To this end, the journal aims to promote a more holistic understanding of British politics by encouraging a closer integration between theoretical and empirical research, between historical and contemporary analyses, and by fostering a conception of British politics as a broad and multi-disciplinary field of study. This incorporates a range of sub-fields, including psephology, policy analysis, regional studies, comparative politics, institutional analysis, political theory, political economy, historical analysis, cultural studies and social policy. While recognising the validity and the importance of research into specific aspects of British politics, the journal takes it to be a guiding principle that such research is more useful, and indeed meaningful, if it is related to the field of British politics in a broader and fuller sense. The scope of the journal will therefore be broad, incorporating a range of research papers and review articles from all theoretical perspectives, and on all aspects of British politics, including policy developments, institutional change and political behaviour. Priority will, however, be given to contributions which link contemporary developments in British politics to theoretical and/or historical analyses. The aim is as much to encourage the development of empirical research that is theoretically rigorous and informed, as it is to encourage the empirical application of theoretical work (or at least to encourage theorists to explicitly signify how their work could be applied in an empirical manner).