Are the elites driving nationalism in post-Brexit Britain?
Tuesday 12 January 2021
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Professor Mike Savage
What has Mike Savage’s analysis revealed about nationalist sentiments across British society?
Professor Mike Savage, director of LSE’s International Inequalities Institute and Martin White Professor in the LSE Department of Sociology, examines the varying forms of nationalism harboured amongst British elites, and considers how intensifying inequalities inform volatile nationalist and racist sentiments across British society.
Instances of racist hate crimes have surged in the UK since the 2016 Brexit referendum. The rise of populist nationalism in many parts of the developed world testifies to the resurgence of fears around intensified immigration, and to the renewed power of racism.
Professor Mike Savage examines the varying forms of nationalism harboured amongst British elites, and considers how intensifying inequalities inform volatile nationalist and racist sentiments across British society.
The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past by Mike Savage is published by Harvard University Press and reviewed on the LSE Review of Books blog.
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