This article uses Woods’ (2005) term ‘politics of the rural’ as a lens to trace connections between ‘Brexit’ and countryside protests that erupted in the late 1990s following the disruption of a century old political settlement for governing rural areas. Historically, the intertwining of rurality, hierarchy and empire in national identity has shielded rural elite interests and the power structures that uphold them from progressive political developments in urban areas. The article highlights how a new political party, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), was able to occupy a space opened by Countryside Alliance and subsequently vacated by a modernising Conservative Party, to build a movement shaped by a similar type of settler populism. How these broader dynamics interacted with local contexts to structure perceptions and experiences underpinning support for Brexit calls for more contextualised, region‐specific research. ‘Politics of the rural’ provides one lens among others to bring to these analyses.

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英国脱欧与农村政治

本文使用伍兹（2005）的术语“农村政治”作为追溯“英国脱欧”与农村抗议活动之间的联系的视角，这种抗议活动是在一个世纪以来统治农村地区的政治解决方案遭到破坏后于1990年代后期爆发的。从历史上看，乡村身份，等级制度和帝国在国家身份中的交织屏蔽了乡村精英利益和维护其不受城市政治发展影响的权力结构。文章强调了一个新政党，即英国独立党（UKIP）如何能够占领乡村联盟开放的空间，随后又由现代化的保守党腾出空间，以建立由类似定居者民粹主义塑造的运动。这些更广泛的动态如何与当地环境相互作用，以构建对英国退欧的支持基础的看法和经验，因此需要开展更多针对具体背景的，针对特定地区的研究。“农村政治”为这些分析提供了一个视角。