The colonial remains of Brexit: Empire nostalgia and narcissistic nationalism

Koegler, Caroline; Malreddy, Pavan Kumar; Tronicke, Marlena

doi:10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440

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“…Of course, the discourse of Brexit has often been said to be infused with postcolonial angst or “nostalgic nationalism” (Franklin 2019 ; c.f. Koegler et al 2020 ). In this case (legal niceties notwithstanding) self-ascription of powerlessness by British elites also serves to divert attention away from their reluctance to regulate and, in this way avoid the contradiction between humanitarian action and professed economic liberalism.…”

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Animal welfare chauvinism in Brexit Britain: a genealogy of care and control

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2022

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This paper uses the deployment of animal welfare as an issue during the ‘Brexit’ referendum as a lens through which to explore the mutual shaping of discourses about care for animals in Britain and the British nation, or the nationalism of animal welfare. Adopting a genealogical outlook, it uses one political advertisement in particular—paid for by the official Vote Leave campaign—as a focalising image and means of opening up the issues, leading to an empirical emphasis on the issue of live animal export as it has mediated ideas about Europe and British identity. Introducing the idea of ‘animal welfare chauvinism’, the paper suggests that animal welfare messages in the context of this constitutional debate were products of chauvinistic and caring impulses which are mutually constitutive and crystallised through discourses formed in relation to contingent historical struggles. Analytically, stress is placed on the constructive role of situated and repeated discursive exchanges, occurring between animal advocates and other national political elites, within which ‘care for animals’ as a national ideal is forged. In this light, the article concludes with reflections on the stakes of entering into an already existing conversation on the ‘national culture of care’ for animals in Britain.

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Section: Power Shame and ‘Caring Britain’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Animal welfare chauvinism in Brexit Britain: a genealogy of care and control

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2022

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“…Como observado por Philip Corrigan e Derek Sayer (citados por Cohn & Dirks, 1988, p.228) a hegemonia não se perpetua per si, ela é sustentada, reconstruída e operacionalizada por instituições e agentes com o ensejo na preservação da sua identi-UM NARCISISMO COLONIAL: implicações históricas nas tecnologias de vigilância dade nacional e imaginário cultural muito ancorados à sua experiência de poder colonizador. Esta necessidade de re-territorialização das expressões coloniais é trabalhada por vários estudiosos dos estudos pós--coloniais (Koegler et al, 2020;Gandhi, 2006;Gilroy, 2004;Spivak, 1993), literários e da psiquiatria (Simmons, 2007;Drichel, 2018;Sardar, 2008;Shaw, 2014;Kohut, 2007;Frosh, 2016Frosh, , 2013, que mapeiam, precisamente, a permanência de um narcisismo colonial no espaço e tempo da pós-colonialidade europeia. Este narcisismo é explicado pela dificuldade em aceitar a perda do estatuto de colonizador perante a queda dos poderes imperiais.…”

Section: A Hegemonia Dos Legados Coloniais E O Lugar Do Narcisismounclassified

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Khan

2021

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O presente artigo tem por finalidade refletir criticamente a interferência dos legados de colonialidade nas tecnologias de vigilância no espaço pós-colonial europeu, ensaiando uma desocultação de uma persistente sobreposição entre estas duas lógicas. A partir da análise de entrevistas a profissionais da investigação criminal e policial, da genética forense, dos Direitos Humanos e criminologia nos Países Baixos, pretende-se argumentar como as tecnologias de vigilância estão complexamente implicadas e comprometidas com os contextos histórico, político, social e cultural.

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“…The reference to the geographical boundaries of the island is used to refer critically to the rise of a new kind of national isolationism in parts of the UK-and especially in England-that stands in stark contrast to ideas of supra-or postnationalism. While debates about Britain's borders after the referendum frequently focused on the borders between Northern Ireland and Ireland, critics have since made clear that these and other border issues are closely connected to the "legacies of empire" that was one of the underlying discourses in the Brexit campaign (Saunders 2020(Saunders , 1140; see also Koegler et al 2020). In line with such approaches, literary and cultural works radically question the future possibilities and dangers of bordering practices not only in Ireland and Northern Ireland (Lehner 2020) but also in relation to other colonial and postcolonial border epistemologies that are connected to the current renaissance of borders in the UK.…”

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Britain’s Imperial Past and Contemporary Borders in Adichie’s Americanah and Zadie Smith’s ‘Fences’

Sandrock

2024

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Recent literary works draw attention to the multifaceted legacy of Britain’s imperial past, not only but including its impact on current UK border practices. The works of postcolonial and Black British authors illustrate especially strongly that the spatial epistemologies of empire are still prevalent in twenty-first century border debates. This article engages with Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and Zadie Smith’s essay “Fences” (2016) as literary works that negotiate UK border practices both before and after Brexit. They draw attention to the intersections of empire, race, gender, and class in the recent resurgence of British bordering practices and emphasize the necessity to make visible both contemporary and historical borders in the UK in order to come to terms with the underlying colonial epistemologies of many border practices.

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The colonial remains of Brexit: Empire nostalgia and narcissistic nationalism

Cited by 28 publications

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Animal welfare chauvinism in Brexit Britain: a genealogy of care and control

Animal welfare chauvinism in Brexit Britain: a genealogy of care and control

Um Narcisismo Colonial

Britain’s Imperial Past and Contemporary Borders in Adichie’s Americanah and Zadie Smith’s ‘Fences’

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