Overview
- Explores nation, class and identity within the context of a declining and increasingly devolved Britain
- Examines new and recent expressions of English and British identity
- Looks at identities from a wider and comparative view of Britain and Britishness, making purposeful comparisons between England, Scotland and Wales
Part of the book series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (CAL)
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This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England. In all three contexts, identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and political commentary. The authors take stock of a wealth of empirical material and explore how attitudes to nation and state can be understood by relating them to changes in contemporary capitalist economies, and the consequences for particular class fractions. The book argues that these changes give rise to a set of resentments among people who perceive themselves to be losing out, concluding that class resentments, depending on historical and political factors relevant to each nation, can take the form of either sub-state nationalism or right wing populism. Nation, Class and Resentment shows that the politics of resentment is especially salient in England, where the promotion of a distinct national identity is problematic. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology and politics, will find this study of interest.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Robin Mann is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bangor University, UK and a member of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD). His research interests are national identity, nationalism, class and civil society and he has published widely in international journals on these topics. His current research is focused on understanding change in civic participation in Wales as part of the ESRC/WISERD Civil Society Research Centre.
Steve Fenton is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a member of Bristol's Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. He has researched and published widely in the fields of ethnicity, health, employment, education, and more recently and national identity and nationalism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nation, Class and Resentment
Book Subtitle: The Politics of National Identity in England, Scotland and Wales
Authors: Robin Mann, Steve Fenton
Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46674-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46673-0Published: 06 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69113-5Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46674-7Published: 20 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-6100
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 249
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, British Politics, Regionalism