Political masculinities and Brexit : men of war
Higgins, Michael (2020) Political masculinities and Brexit : men of war. Journal of Language and Politics, 19 (1). pp. 89-106. ISSN 1569-2159 (https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.19090.hig)
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Abstract
This article examines the discourses of masculinity to pervade debates on the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. The article outlines an association between excessive forms of masculinity and popular cultural discourses around conflict and war, constructing and reproducing a popular lexicon on the British experience of World War II in ways that are widely interpreted as symptomatic of a coarsening of political discussion. However, the article also emphasises the performative quality of these masculine discourses in line with the personalisation of politics, and stresses the scope for contestation and ridicule. The article thereby identifies the articulation of a performative masculinity with a nation-based politics of the right. While disputable and occasionally subject to derision, this produces a gendered component in any antagonistic turn in contemporary political culture.
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Higgins, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5903-952X;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 70447 Dates: DateEvent4 March 2020Published15 January 2020Published Online11 November 2019AcceptedSubjects: Political Science
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > PsychologyDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > Journalism Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 07 Nov 2019 09:41 Last modified: 08 Oct 2024 17:10 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70447