The Battle for Britain : crises, conflicts and the conjuncture / John Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, John, 1950- author.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Social conditions--21st century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--2007-.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book addresses the UK's social, political and economic turbulence, exploring proliferating crises and conflicts, from social dissent through rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe and how they have produced a deepening 'crisis of authority' that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Battle for Britain and Conjunctural Thinking

Nations, Nationalisms and the Conjuncture

Turbulent Times: The Making of the Present

Pause for Thought 1: The Conjuncture as Space and Time

Accounting for Brexit

Thinking Relationally: Class and Its Others

Building Blocs: Towards a Politics of Articulation

Pause for Thought 2: Thinking Articulation

An Accumulation of Crises

'The Best Country in the World': Race, Culture, History

Holding It Together? The Coercive Turn and the Crises of Party and Bloc

Unstable Equilibria: The Life of the State

The Battle for Britain

and Beyond

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2024).

ISBN:

9781529227710

1529227712

9781529227697

1529227690

9781529227703

1529227704

OCLC:

1380360155