The Anglosphere : continuity, dissonance and location /
Wellings, Ben,1971-author,editor.
Mycock, Andrew,author,editor.
British Academy,issuing body.
The Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community consisting of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK - came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. The Anglosphere's origins lie in the British Empire and the conflicts of the 20th century. It encompasses an extensive but ill-defined community bonded by language, culture, media, and 'civilisational' heritage founded on the shared beliefs and practices of free-market economics and liberal democracy. Supporters of the Anglosphere argue that it provides a better 'fit' for English-speaking countries at a time when global politics is in a state of flux and under strain from economic crises, conflict and terrorism, and humanitarian disasters.0This edited volume provides the first detailed analyses of the Anglosphere, bringing together leading international academic experts to examine its historical origins and contemporary political, social, economic, military, and cultural manifestations. They reveal that the Anglosphere is underpinned by a range of continuities and discontinuities which are shaped by the location of its five core states. The volume reveals that although the Anglosphere is founded on a common view of the past and0the present, it continually seeks to realise a shared future which is never fully attained. The volume thus makes an important contribution to debates about the future of the UK outside of the EU, and the potential for the English-speaking peoples to shape the 21st century.
Based on proceedings from the conference, The Anglosphere and its others: the English-speaking peoples in a changing world order, held at the British Academy in London on 15-16 June 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Continuity, dissonance and location : an Anglosphere research agenda / Andrew Mycock and Ben Wellings -- Part I. Continuity. The Anglosphere as a principle of progress / Michael Gardiner -- Anglospheres : empire redivivus? / Duncan Bell -- The past, present and future of Anglosphere security networks : constitutive reduction of a shared identity / Tim Legrand -- The Anglosphere beyond security / Srdjan Vucetic -- Part II. Dissonance. The political economy of the Anglosphere : geography trumps history / John Ravenhill and Jefferson Huebner -- The Anglosphere and the American embrace : the end of the British Empire and after / Carl Bridge and Bart Zielinski -- CANZUK, the Anglosphere(s) and transnational war commemoration : the centenary of the First World War / Andrew Mycock -- The Anglosphere and indigenous politics / Katherine Smits -- Part III. Location. The Anglo-American worldview and the question of world order / Andrew Gamble -- Churchill, Powell and the conservative 'Bexiteers' : the political legacies of the Anglosphere / Michael Kenny and Nick Pearce -- Underwriting Brexit : the European Union in the Anglosphere imagination / Helen Baxendale and Ben Wellings -- The Anglosphere, race and Brexit / Eva Namusoke.
The Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community consisting of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK - came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. The Anglosphere's origins lie in the British Empire and the conflicts of the 20th century. It encompasses an extensive but ill-defined community bonded by language, culture, media, and 'civilisational' heritage founded on the shared beliefs and practices of free-market economics and liberal democracy. Supporters of the Anglosphere argue that it provides a better 'fit' for English-speaking countries at a time when global politics is in a state of flux and under strain from economic crises, conflict and terrorism, and humanitarian disasters.0This edited volume provides the first detailed analyses of the Anglosphere, bringing together leading international academic experts to examine its historical origins and contemporary political, social, economic, military, and cultural manifestations. They reveal that the Anglosphere is underpinned by a range of continuities and discontinuities which are shaped by the location of its five core states. The volume reveals that although the Anglosphere is founded on a common view of the past and0the present, it continually seeks to realise a shared future which is never fully attained. The volume thus makes an important contribution to debates about the future of the UK outside of the EU, and the potential for the English-speaking peoples to shape the 21st century.
Group identity
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