Affective Polarisation

Social Inequality in the UK After Austerity, Brexit and COVID-19

• Author(s): Jana Gohrisch, Gesa Stedman,
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Pages: 192
• ISBN_10: 1529222265
  ISBN_13: 9781529222265
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Comparative Politics , Political Science / Political Ideologies / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity ,

Description:... Inequality is an ever-present danger in our society. This important book addresses the crucial nexus between the lived experience of inequality and how it shapes political responses. With contributors from the UK and Continental Europe, the book compiles case studies with theoretically informed discussions of the relationship between affective polarisation, social inequality and the fall-out from Brexit and COVID-19. Using a broad concept of social inequality, the book incorporates aspects of economy and society, language, and emotion culture, as well as interviews and film in historical and transnational perspectives. The contributors offer a powerful examination of the ways in which the politics of the UK and the lived experiences of its residents have been reframed in the first decades of the 21st century.