ABSTRACT

The Brexit referendum was experienced as a dramatic moment of rupture by millions of people who voted to remain in the European Union. This article argues that the period of uncertainty that came after the referendum was also a highly generative period for new political projects. By following the fluid, dynamic and multi-faceted articulation of Brexit as an issue of public concern – that is, as an issue that represents many distinct problems for different groups of people – this article traces the difficulties faced by these groups, as they attempt to enact public interventions, and consequently to emerge as properly-speaking democratic publics. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, this article makes the case for an embedded mode of social research that is attentive to the emergence, growth, and evolution of social and political movements, and that is, moreover, able to trace these dynamics over long periods of time.

摘要

数百万人投票决定留在欧盟，英国脱欧公投经历了一次戏剧性的破裂。本文认为，公投后的不确定时期也是新政治项目的高度产生时期。通过关注英国脱欧的流畅，动态和多方面的表达，这是公众关注的问题，也就是说，代表了不同人群的许多不同问题的文章，本文追溯了这些人群在尝试时所面临的困难采取公众干预措施，从而成为说话得当的民主公众。借鉴英国退欧公投后收集的人种学数据，本文为社会研究的嵌入式模式提供了理由，该模式应关注出现，增长，