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This article analyses senses of belonging and belonging disrupted via the lens of Brexit with a little ‘b’: namely at the level of ordinary experiences in the flow of daily lives. Our interlocutors recount these as deeply emotionally charged experiences. Their accounts supplement and help nuance more widespread popular explanatory models of the referendum vote and its outcomes. Examining brexit through the intersection of belonging and emotion permits new insights into how place became linked in social imaginaries with Leave and Remain. It also permits closer analysis of how senses of belonging are relationally and differentially mediated by other identities including class, race, ethnicity, and migration status, and how these intersect unevenly with and have a consequence for people’s senses of belonging. This includes demonstrating how the privileged sense of belonging of many white middle-class Britons (both Leave and Remain supporting) was disrupted and sense of ontological security was jarred, as well as how people navigated the multiple social and cultural outcomes of the referendum in their daily lives, networks of intimate social relations, and local places.
Author(s): Degnen C, Tyler K, Blamire J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Year: 2024
Volume: 30
Issue: 1
Pages: 23-41
Print publication date: 01/03/2024
Online publication date: 10/10/2023
Acceptance date: 21/05/2023
Date deposited: 07/08/2023
ISSN (print): 1359-0987
ISSN (electronic): 1467-9655
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14043
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14043
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