Northern Exposure: Race, nation and disaffection in post-Brexit Wakefield
The ESRC Project (2018-2022), Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in “Ordinary” Towns and Cities after Brexit set itself the task of challenging simplifications about diversity and social polarisation that predominate in the political sociology of Brexit and after. It was based on a wide range of oral history interviews with mainly elderly residents in four typical mid-sized towns in the North of England and extensive co-productive fieldwork with local authorities and third-sector actors there. The presentation will offer both an introduction to the human geography and political landscape of the North of England, as well as a detailed study of two marginal, socio-economically deprived locations in the South Yorkshire district of Wakefield that might be assumed to be archetypes of post-industrial decline and associated White English political disaffection.
Date: 31 October 2024, 15:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Mawby Room (wheelchair accessible)
Speakers: Adrian Favell (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh), Andrew Wallace (University of Greenwich)
Organising department: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Organiser: Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: info@compas.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Perspectives of Place
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/perspectives-of-place
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Nathan Grassi