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Feeling “Brexit”: Nationalism and the Affective Politics of Movement
Angharad Closs Stephens 
GeoHumanities, Pages: 1 - 19
Swansea University Author:
Angharad Closs Stephens
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/2373566X.2019.1620623
Abstract
This article discusses what ‘Brexit’ felt like in the year following the UK vote–held on 23 June 2016–to leave the European Union through a performance called ‘The Populars’ created and performed in 2017 by Volcano Theatre, in Swansea (Abertawe). The article addresses the specific contributions that...
| Published in: | GeoHumanities |
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| ISSN: | 2373-566X 2373-5678 |
| Published: |
Taylor and Francis
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50120 |
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This article discusses what ‘Brexit’ felt like in the year following the UK vote–held on 23 June 2016–to leave the European Union through a performance called ‘The Populars’ created and performed in 2017 by Volcano Theatre, in Swansea (Abertawe). The article addresses the specific contributions that engaging affect does in the context of ‘Brexit’: as an invitation to address heightened political feelings and also, as an alternative approach to the politics of knowledge to that enabled by a focus on voter interests or identities. Overall, the article develops ways of thinking and acting politically that defy the closures of nationalist populism. |
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| Keywords: |
Affect. Nation. Shame. Brexit. The People. Movement. |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Start Page: |
1 |
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19 |