Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Tables v
4. Notes on Contributors vi
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Introduction 1
7. The Politics and Culture of Austerity: Impacts and Resistance
8. The Contracting State: Austerity and Public Services 19
9. Breaking Britain’s Working Class: the Left Out 33
10. Political Activism and Agency under Austerity and Brexit 45
11. Culture Matters: Cuts and Resistance 59
12. Agents and Agency in the Face of Austerity and Brexit Uncertainty: the Case of Legal Aid 73
13. The Politics and Discourse of Brexit
14. The Economy of Brexit: Performance, Interests and Agency 89
15. Brexit Populism: Disenfranchisement and Agency 103
16. A Sovereign People? Political Fantasy and Governmental Time in the Pursuit of Brexit 117
17. ‘Not an International Health Service’: Xenophobia, Brexit and the Restoration of National Sovereignty 131
18. ‘Uni-Culti’ Myths and Liberal Dreams: Brexit and Austerity from the Perspective of Migrants 145
19. Austerity and Brexit in a Divided Union
20. From Brexit to the Break-Up of ... England? Thinking in and Beyond the Nation 161
21. Understanding Brexit in Wales: Austerity, Elites and National Identity 175
22. Scotland, Brexit and the Broken Promise of Democracy 189
23. Brexit, Devolution and Northern Ireland’s Political Parties: Differential Solutions, Special Status or Special Arrangements? 203
24. More Than the Border? Looking at Brexit through Irish Eyes 219
25. Conclusion 233
26. Index 247