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Everyday Brexits
Author(s) -
Anderson Ben,
Wilson Helen F.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12385
Subject(s) - brexit , referendum , futures contract , everyday life , european union , variety (cybernetics) , event (particle physics) , sociology , political science , politics , law , economics , computer science , international trade , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , financial economics
In this commentary we explore how geographers might respond to the event of “Brexit” – the decision and process of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union after the referendum of 23 June 2016. Although it is necessary to understand the ways in which Brexit is an effect of a range of named causes and conditions, we argue that geographers should also stay with the event of “Brexit” by following how Brexit surfaces across a variety of everyday scenes and situations. Such geographies of everyday Brexit would begin from the different ways in which people, groups and organisations relate to Brexit through the making present of diverse futures. As futures are anticipated, hoped for, suspended or otherwise related to, Brexit (re)animates relations of power, and gives rise to new forms of collective and bodily life.