Date: 2020
Type: Contribution to book
The politics of the adjective global : May’s global Britain and the ‘new world’
Ino ROSSI (ed.), Challenges of globalization and prospects for an inter-civilizational world order, Cham : Springer, 2020, pp. 209-224
SELCHOW, Sabine Ulrike, The politics of the adjective global : May’s global Britain and the ‘new world’, in Ino ROSSI (ed.), Challenges of globalization and prospects for an inter-civilizational world order, Cham : Springer, 2020, pp. 209-224
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The adjective global has come to be an omnipresent ingredient of contemporary politics discourses. There is hardly anything these days that is not attributed with this adjective in one context or another. Most recently, in the context of the Brexit-debate, “Britain” has been relaunched by UK Prime Minister May as “global Britain”. This chapter engages with the adjective global. It argues that the omnipresence of the adjective global is not just a linguistic curiosity, nor is it “simply” a symbolic manifestation of a “global” consciousness. Rather, the widespread use of global is a political phenomenon. It constitutes the discursive reproduction of a web of meanings that is best labelled “new world”. As such, the use of the adjective global demands critical scrutiny from political analysts. The aim of the chapter is twofold. First, it outlines this theoretical argument. Second, it discusses the politics of the adjective global in UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s post-Brexit use of the term ‘global Britain’.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69653
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44058-9
ISBN: 9783030440572
Publisher: Springer
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