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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] The Mental Maps of Brexit Britain: Conflicting Imaginations of Britain’s Role in Europe and the World since the 1970s
DESCRIPTION:Mainland Europeans were gazing with disbelief at the Brexit drama that had been unfolding across the Channel since 2016. They were particularly disconcerted by interpretations of British national identity, which often had very little in common with the ideas of other European nations. Some Leavers dreamt of a “Global Britain”, ‘sovereign’ and free of all multilateral chains, while others cited ‘English values’ as the key to renewing the political clout of the UK. Meanwhile, the Remain camp tied itself up in knots attempting to work out Britain’s place in Europe. But whether they have been fighting over the UK’s position in today’s globalised world, Britain’s cultural and political significance in Europe or the future of national identities in a ‘United Kingdom’ of four nations, Remainers and Leavers have been entrenched in a bitter war of interpretation. The virulence and even violence of these interpretative battlegrounds can only be understood by examining their historical context. They are the culmination of various self-positionings, each politically and ideologically coded and each with a number of internal contradictions that Great Britain has adopted since the 1970s in an increasingly globalised and connected world. This session examines the conflicting imaginations of Britain’s role in Europe and the world by focusing on the ‘mental maps’ of Brexit Britain. By doing this, it will contribute to the ongoing project of historicizing Brexit. It analyses the three most significant mental maps: ‘global Britain’, ‘little England’ and ‘Britain in Europe’. They have been disputed vigorously in public discourse since the 1970s. The papers analyse the genesis, the plurality and the internal contradictions of these mental maps and identify their central actors and forums of debate. Which topics are central to the debates on the UK’s position on the imaginary map of the world? What role has been played by global transformations, economic ideologies, or transnational cultural networks?
Der Beitrag The Mental Maps of Brexit Britain: Conflicting Imaginations of Britain’s Role in Europe and the World since the 1970s erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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