Contents

pp iii-iv

List of Tables

pp v-v

Notes on Contributors

pp vi-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - The Politics and Culture of Austerity: Impacts and Resistance

pp 17-18

1 - The Contracting State: Austerity and Public Services

pp 19-32

2 - Breaking Britain's Working Class: the Left Out

pp 33-44

3 - Political Activism and Agency under Austerity and Brexit

pp 45-58

4 - Culture Matters: Cuts and Resistance

pp 59-72

5 - Agents and Agency in the Face of Austerity and Brexit Uncertainty: The Case of Legal Aid

pp 73-86

Part II - The Politics and Discourse of Brexit

pp 87-88

6 - The Economy of Brexit: Performance, Interests and Agency

pp 89-102

7 - Brexit Populism: Disenfranchisement and Agency

pp 103-116

8 - A Sovereign People? Political Fantasy and Governmental Time in the Pursuit of Brexit

pp 117-130

9 - ‘Not an International Health Service’: Xenophobia, Brexit and the Restoration of National Sovereignty

pp 131-144

10 - ‘Uni-Culti’ Myths and Liberal Dreams: Brexit and Austerity from the Perspective of Migrants

pp 145-158

Part III - Austerity and Brexit in a Divided Union

pp 159-160

11 - From Brexit to the Break-Up of ... England? Thinking in and Beyond the Nation

pp 161-174

12 - Understanding Brexit in Wales: Austerity, Elites and National Identity

pp 175-188

13 - Scotland, Brexit and the Broken Promise of Democracy

pp 189-202

14 - Brexit, Devolution and Northern Ireland's Political Parties: Differential Solutions, Special Status or Special Arrangements?

pp 203-218

15 - More Than the Border? Looking at Brexit through Irish eyes

pp 219-232

Conclusion

pp 233-246

Index

pp 247-254