Forbidden fruit: The neglected political economy of Lexit

Guinan, Joe; Hanna, Thomas M.

doi:10.1111/newe.12032

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“…saving health resources by limiting immigration. But were an out-group characterised as on the side of big business, like how Lexiteers depicted the EU (Guinan & Hanna, 2017), priming a left-leaning in-group identity may be effective.…”

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“…The Lexit campaign (i.e. a niche left-wing movement to leave the EU) was also markedly different in content from the mainstream Leave campaigns and, in comparison, went neglected (Guinan & Hanna, 2017;Worth, 2017). It, therefore, seems fair to argue that while the Brexit vote cannot necessarily be politically differentiated, there was a greater tendency for people on the right to support leaving the EU.…”

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Shaping the modern world with a stone-age brain: Brexit and the Moral Foundations Theory

Smith

2019

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Decision making is not always a reasoned process. It is often subject to reflexive heuristics. The Moral Foundations Theory is a popular theoretical framework that characterises political decisions by adherence to an evolutionary criterion. Based on recurrent ancestral pressures, this model anticipates our species' tribal history has resulted in a set of intuitive ethics: Care/ Harm, Fairness/ Cheating, Loyalty/ Betrayal, Authority/ Subversion, and Sanctity/ Degradation. Focusing on the winning side, this paper analyses official communications, polling data and media coverage to explore how the Leave campaigners intentionally or unintentionally appealed to the public's moral intuitions. In doing so, it aims to show why evolutionary psychology potentially offers a useful layer of analysis with which to understand contemporary politics.

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Shaping the modern world with a stone-age brain: Brexit and the Moral Foundations Theory

Smith

2019

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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“…Community wealth building has been described as ‘guerrilla localism’ by some of its leading practitioners (Brown and Jones, 2021), and can be contrasted with the ‘guerrilla welfare’ described by one of our interview participants. Central to the CWB approach are the principals and practices of economy democracy for place-based development, and a rejection of extractive and placeless economic strategies (Kelly et al, 2016; Guinan and Hannah, 2017; Guinan and O’ Neill, 2020; Brown and Jones, 2021). It requires active, local institutions (in particular local government) which will support citizens to exert meaningful democratic control over community-based economic development.…”

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“…What remains to be developed in TSI is a clear sense of the relationship between these 'shades of change', and between social innovations and political economy (for example, modes of political economy, following Guinan and Hannah (2017) from a CWB perspective, based on public ownership, community-based industrial strategy and localised procurement). Avenlino et al (2019) discuss how social innovation involves changing social relations or practices, terms used relatively interchangeably.…”

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Food bank practices, local development and the potential of community wealth building and universal basic services in the UK

Lee

Graham

Croft

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Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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In the UK, the proliferation of voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) providing emergency food aid has been the subject of critical scrutiny. Analysis has called for further work to understand and act upon the diverse practices taking place within and across food banks. We consider how co-ordinators of food banks in the county of Northumberland have responded to interlocking crises and rising demand, and how they reflect upon their practices. We embed their views and experiences within a critical, contextualised analysis of a core tension: how to provide food in a minimally stigmatising manner, while simultaneously arguing and acting for the end of such activities. We consider the implications of such tensions for approaches to local development, focusing on two key elements of a ‘transformative social innovation’ approach: system innovation and narratives of change. We argue that without significant change in, and challenges to, these ‘shades of change’, enacting (empowering) transformative social innovation in relation to food insecurity will be difficult. In doing so, we consider the potential of community wealth building (CWB) and universal basic services (UBS) to enable innovative change in social and system practices and enhance social infrastructure.

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“…In very similar ways both have thrown in their lot with an idea of Lexit, i.e., a left-wing Brexit (see Rutherford, 2016Rutherford, , 2017bGlasman, 2016;also Bienkov, 2016, Guinan andHanna, 2017a). Rutherford, for instance, puts the Blue Labour case for Brexit when he suggests that it creates the opportunity for a national 'renewal' against the forces of global capital (see 2017c).…”

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Corbynism and Blue Labour: post-liberalism and national populism in the British Labour Party

Bolton

Pitts²

2018

Br Polit

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Responding to recent debates, this article challenges the presentation of Corbynism and Blue Labour as competing philosophical tendencies in the contemporary British Labour Party. It does so with reference to their shared mobilisation around post-liberal and national-populist notions of the relationship between nations, states, society, citizens and the outside world, and critiques of capitalism and liberal democracy that they hold in common. Uncovering a largely subterranean 'critical Marxist' counterpoint that seeks to 'hold the centre' rather than rhetorically or theoretically endorse its destabilisation, the article outlines the other paths available from within the intellectual traditions of the Labour Party and wider left, concluding that there is a real philosophical alternative to both Corbynism and Blue Labour.

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Forbidden fruit: The neglected political economy of Lexit

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Shaping the modern world with a stone-age brain: Brexit and the Moral Foundations Theory

Shaping the modern world with a stone-age brain: Brexit and the Moral Foundations Theory

Food bank practices, local development and the potential of community wealth building and universal basic services in the UK

Corbynism and Blue Labour: post-liberalism and national populism in the British Labour Party

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