New paper out with @RobinMann01 in @socscimed looking at whether being a minority in your local area in terms of your social class is a risk factor for poorer mental health, using Bourdieu's model of class /1 @PsychBangor#epitwitter
https://t.co/Ss8ysEjC5I
With relevance to #Brexit, we suggest that English nationalist and Eurosceptic elites achieve resonance with older, white, English people's anxieties over a perceived softening of national boundaries and the need to re-affirm these boundaries.
Very pleased to have contributed with Steve Fenton to this
special issue of Anthropological Notebooks devoted to the 50th
anniversary of Fredrik Barth’s ‘Ethnic groups and boundaries’. Available open access:
https://t.co/6otTKWM8q3
We show how actors make discursive connections between everyday concerns (standing on your own two feet, taking responsibility), political boundaries ( border/immigration control, governing yourself), and historical ideas about ‘Britain standing alone’ in the world.
@DavidKnowlesy @CLeddyOwen Yes the distinction is important. I don’t buy the left behind thesis. I think we underestimate how important a sense of national belonging is, for all kinds of politics
@LobsterMagazine@tcgriffin Full blown political English nationalism is a matter for debate and there is a difference between nationalism “proper” and popular nationalist sentiments in my view. But I would argue that the tories now are the closest they have been to being an English nationalist party.
Eg references to values and social conservatism have been made in relation to winning/losing Labour “heartlands”. But Tories didn’t win the Labour heartlands in S Wales nor the former in Scotland
@LobsterMagazine@tcgriffin Full blown political English nationalism is a matter for debate and there is a difference between nationalism “proper” and popular nationalist sentiments in my view. But I would argue that the tories now are the closest they have been to being an English nationalist party.
1 Given the strength of Scottish Indy and the emergent Welsh Indy as responses to the rise of right wing English nationalism, there is the question of whether a progressive English nationalism might emerge.