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Brexit as a scandal: gender and global trumpism

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  • Aida A. Hozić
  • Jacqui True

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‘Brexit’ was a watershed moment. It has made visible the major faultlines and fissures that underlie the so-called ‘United Kingdom’ (UK) and our increasingly globalized world. But the precise nature of those faultlines and fissures requires multiple strands of critical analysis and interpretation. To date, most analyses have highlighted the socio-economic class and immigration or rather race/empire reasons for the Brexit vote neglecting their gendered dimensions. Building on the framework developed in Scandalous Economics we show how gendered analysis both illuminates and complicates dominant explanations of the Brexit vote. We interrogate the agents of Brexit – highlighting the paradox of men's dominance of the Brexit campaign and women's rise in the political crisis that ensued after the referendum vote. We also examine the intersectional inequalities that have made Brexit conceivable from a gender perspective, and its likely impact given the austerity policies and global chains of migrant labour upon which the UK economy depends. We conclude that critical feminist political economy broadens as well as globalizes our analysis of international political economy. Moreover, this analysis of Brexit is a lens which can be used to interrogate the spread of populism aka ‘Trumpism’ elsewhere.

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  • Aida A. Hozić & Jacqui True, 2017. "Brexit as a scandal: gender and global trumpism," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 270-287, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:24:y:2017:i:2:p:270-287
    DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2017.1302491
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    1. Harry Bromley-Davenport & Julie MacLeavy & David Manley, 2019. "Brexit in Sunderland: The production of difference and division in the UK referendum on European Union membership," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 37(5), pages 795-812, August.
    2. Charlotte Galpin, 2022. "Contesting Brexit Masculinities: Pro‐European Activists and Feminist EU Citizenship," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(2), pages 301-318, March.
    3. Toni Haastrup & Katharine A. M. Wright & Roberta Guerrina, 2019. "Bringing Gender In? EU Foreign and Security Policy after Brexit," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(3), pages 62-71.
    4. Freistein, Katja & Gadinger, Frank & Unrau, Christine, 2020. "From the global to the everyday: Anti-globalization metaphors in Trump's and Salvini's political language," Global Cooperation Research Papers 24, University of Duisburg-Essen, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21).
    5. Augustine O. Ifelebuegu & Kenneth E. Aidelojie & Elijah Acquah-Andoh, 2017. "Brexit and Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union: Implications for UK Energy Policy and Security," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-15, December.

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