| Blanchet, Beatrice 2013. Translating the intellectual in Britain: The Cenotaph yob and other representations of dissent. Journal of European Studies 43 (1) , pp. 60-74. 10.1177/0047244112469779 |
Abstract
The media coverage of the 2010 British student protests has highlighted the centrality of pervasive discourses on the absence of a culture of dissent in Britain while reviving representations of the intellectual as estranged and alienated from Britishness. Reflections on British exceptionalism entail a selection of chosen pasts and idealized/demonized geographical ‘elsewheres’, which contrast the vision of law-abiding Britain with the insurrectional continent. In an attempt to comprehend the new forms of social protest, debates regarding student ‘riots’ invoked post-revolutionary tropes of identity and otherness in Britain: black-hooded foreigners were regarded as vectors of disorder linked with images of contagion, until a figure of the home-grown intellectual blended multilayered narratives on the nation, its aliens and dissenters.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Modern Languages |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Britishness; dissent; intellectuals; media; youth |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| ISSN: | 0047-2441 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2017 06:32 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61522 |
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