[Commlist] new book: The Left Behind: Reimagining Britain's Socially Excluded

James Morrison is delighted to announce the publication by Pluto Press 
of a new book, The Left Behind: Reimagining Britain's Socially Excluded 
<https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344621/the-left-behind/>.


Here is the book's blurb:

'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political 
discourse. It is the threat that knits together the 2016 Brexit 
referendum, the crumbling of the fabled 'Red Wall' in the North, and the 
pernicious culture war being waged today. But who are the Left Behind?

James Morrison goes in search of the reality behind the rhetoric, 
offering the first comprehensive, historical analysis of the origins, 
uses and meanings of the term. He interrogates the popular archetype of 
the Left Behind - as a working class, Leave-voting white male from a 
former industrial heartland - and situates the concept in the context of 
longstanding, demonising discourses aimed at communities seen as 
backward and 'undeserving'.

Analysing national newspaper coverage and parliamentary discussions, and 
drawing on interviews with MPs, community leaders, charities and people 
with direct lived experiences of poverty and precarity, /The Left Behind 
/grapples with the real human cost of austerity for neglected 
post-industrial communities and other marginalised groups across the 
world, and the stigmatising discourse that does little to serve them.


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ commlist.org)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------