Chapter
Chapter One The Increasing Inevitability of That Referendum
Chapter Two Vox Populi: Nationalism, Globalization and the Balance of Power in the Making of Brexit
The Balance of Social Power
Chapter Three Exit From the Perspective of Entry
Convergence or Divergence?
Neo-liberalism and ‘Race’
Post-Imperial Political Economy
Chapter Four Brexit, Sovereignty and the End of an Ever Closer Union
Borderless Europe and Its Discontents
Germany and Its Refugee Policies: Exceptional or Exceptionally Universal?
Sovereignty Shared, Sovereignty Divisive: Whose Debt Is Sovereign?
Concluding Remarks: EU’s Sovereignty Paradox
Section 2 The Politics of Brexit
Chapter Five Populism, Nationalism and Brexit
There Will Always Be an England
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism
The Future of Europe? And the World?
Chapter Six A Tale of Two Constitutions: Whose Legitimacy? Whose Crisis?
The Dialectic of Transnational Democracy
Chapter Seven Locating Brexit in The Pragmatics of Race, Citizenship and Empire
Race and Class in the Brexit Debates
Conceptualizations of Citizenship
British Citizenship from Empire to Commonwealth
Multicultural British Citizens and Citizenship
Chapter Eight Globalization, Nationalism and the Changing Axes of Political Identity
A Brief History of Political Identity
The Social Supports of Multiculturalism
Chapter Nine A Divided Nation in a Divided Europe: Emerging Cleavages and The Crisis of European Integration
Explaining Brexit: Divided Societies
European Integration and Contradictions between Capitalism and Democracy
Section 3 Prospects For/After Brexit
Chapter Ten The EU and Brexit: Processes, Perspectives and Prospects
European Union–United Kingdom
Chapter Eleven The Impossibility of Disentangling Integration
Step Two: Fundamental Norm Contestations
Step Three: Conclusions – Back to What and Where to Next?
Chapter Twelve No Exit from Brexit?
III. Sociological Implications
Scenario 1: ‘Straight Hard Brexit’
Scenario 2: ‘Straight Soft Brexit’
Scenario 3: ‘Relegitimized Hard Brexit’
Scenario 4: ‘Relegitimized Soft Brexit’
Scenario 5: ‘Autocratic No Brexit’
Scenario 6: ‘Legitimized No Brexit’
Scenario 5: ‘Autocratic No Brexit’
Scenario 1: ‘Straight Hard Brexit’
Scenario 3: ‘Relegitimized Hard Brexit’
Scenario 2: ‘Straight Soft Brexit’
Scenario 4: ‘Relegitimized Soft Brexit’
Scenario 6: ‘Legitimized No Brexit’
Chapter Thirteen Critical Theory, Brexit and The Vicissitudes of Political Economy in The Twenty-First Century
The Sociological Significance of Brexit
Toward a Sociological Perspective on Brexit: Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century
Critical Theory and the Significance of Brexit for Sociology
Brexit: Taking Sociology to Task
Chapter Fourteen European Union Versus European Society: Sociologists on ‘Brexit’ and The ‘Failure’ of Europeanization