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The Art of Brexit
International Studies Quarterly ( IF 2.799 ) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 , DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqad009
Benjamin Tallis 1, 2
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Brexit is widely acknowledged as an important event in recent international relations (IR) and emblematic of polarization in Western societies. This article challenges the conventional wisdom that the two sides of the Brexit debate (Leave and Remain) have little in common and that the division of British society into entrenched Euroskeptic/Europhile camps neatly corresponds to cleavages between liberal “cosmopolitans” and conservative “nationals.” Rather, I show that “Euroskeptic” positions are also found in “Europhile” culture. I focus on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s popular and prolific “Art of” collection of miniseries (nearly 40 hours of programming over a decade), which offers a significant but hitherto unexplored archive. I explore this novel empirical material by combining interpretive research with a “societal multiplicity” framework, which overcomes the methodological nationalism of some Brexit analyses, to demonstrate that this seemingly cosmopolitan, liberal programming also reproduces tropes of “Anglo-British” chauvinistic exceptionalism. I argue that this exceptionalism (across the divides) contributed to a mode of societal differentiation that helped drive Brexit and will continue to affect Britain's options and preferences for interaction and combination with other states and societies. This provides theoretically informed empirical analysis of IR “where we least expect it” and shows the policy value of cultural IR.

中文翻译:

英国脱欧的艺术

英国退欧被广泛认为是近期国际关系 (IR) 中的重要事件,也是西方社会两极分化的象征。这篇文章挑战了传统观点,即英国脱欧辩论的双方(脱欧和留欧)几乎没有共同点,英国社会分裂为根深蒂固的欧洲怀疑论者/亲欧派阵营恰好对应于自由派“世界主义者”和保守派“国民”之间的分歧。 ” 相反,我表明“欧洲怀疑论者”的立场也存在于“亲欧派”文化中。我专注于英国广播公司广受欢迎且多产的“艺术”系列迷你剧(十年来近 40 小时的节目),它提供了重要但迄今未开发的档案。我通过将解释性研究与“社会多样性”框架相结合来探索这种新颖的经验材料,该框架克服了一些英国脱欧分析的方法论民族主义,以证明这种看似世界主义的自由主义规划也再现了“英英”沙文主义例外主义的比喻。我认为,这种例外主义(跨越鸿沟)促成了一种社会分化模式,这种模式有助于推动英国退欧,并将继续影响英国与其他国家和社会互动和结合的选择和偏好。这为“我们最不期望的地方”的 IR 提供了理论上有依据的实证分析,并显示了文化 IR 的政策价值。自由编程还再现了“英英”沙文主义例外论的比喻。我认为,这种例外主义(跨越鸿沟)促成了一种社会分化模式,这种模式有助于推动英国退欧,并将继续影响英国与其他国家和社会互动和结合的选择和偏好。这为“我们最不期望的地方”的 IR 提供了理论上有依据的实证分析,并显示了文化 IR 的政策价值。自由编程还再现了“英英”沙文主义例外论的比喻。我认为,这种例外主义(跨越鸿沟)促成了一种社会分化模式,这种模式有助于推动英国退欧,并将继续影响英国与其他国家和社会互动和结合的选择和偏好。这为“我们最不期望的地方”的 IR 提供了理论上有依据的实证分析,并显示了文化 IR 的政策价值。
更新日期:2023-03-07
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