Ethics and Nationalist Populism at the British Seaside: Negotiating Character

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An ethnographic approach to nationalist populism
Character and the ethics of nationalist populism: theoretical engagements
Ethics in anthropological debates
Class in Britain
Is ethnography a methodology?
Situating the research
The national landscape of de-industrialization and leisure
Administrative divisions and local history
Deprivation and retirement at the seaside
Outline of the book
Note
Chapter 1 The logic of character: ‘To put the past back’
Encountering character
Character and childhood memories
The Proust effect
Involuntary memory and the past
The ethics of memory
Relating through character
The different experiences of character
The temporality of character
Maintaining or ruining character
Character, power and class
Character and aesthetics
Notes
Chapter 2 Connections of character: The British seaside
Character and the ‘Made in Britain’
Personal memories and the national
‘Made in Britain’ and class
Period houses
Clare and Peter’s hallway
Lynva’s kitchen
Julie’s living room
Nationalism at home
Houses and social hierarchies
The nation in practice
Class and home ownership
Nationalism outside the home
Remembrance Day
The local History Society
A British town
Nationalism and class
Notes
Chapter 3 Disconnections of character: A town undergoing regeneration
Local regeneration and the creative industries
The politics of depriving a town
A new art gallery in town
‘It’s like a bus shelter’
A discomfort with conceptual art
Reopening the local amusement park
Retirement, consumption and memory talk
Gentrification and the arts at the seaside
Character and the consumption of places
The limits of creative ‘diversity’
Note
Chapter 4 Intersections of character: The Brexit vote
The local rise of nationalist populism
A local hotel
From the rubbish in the streets to formal politics
How nationalist populism operates
The ‘legacy of empire’ argument
The ‘left behind’ argument
Avoiding the ‘post’ paradigm
Brexit, time and age
British and other nationalities
Notes
Final considerations: The ethics of an anthropology of nationalist populism
A Brazilian writing about the British
Character and the ethics of anthropological practice
References
Index