List of tables
About the author
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Inventing and appropriating ‘the left behind’
1. Working class, ‘underclass’ and collapsing-class identity: The
roots of the left behind
2. Politics, the press and the construction of the post-Brexit left
behind
3. How to solve a problem like the left behind: Condescension or
contempt?
4. Fear and loathing on social media: Trolling and championing the
left behind
5. Speaking up for the left behind: The voices of disadvantaged
Britain
Conclusion: Towards a manifesto for ‘unite and rule’
Appendix: Research methodologies
References
Index
James Morrison is a reader in journalism at Robert Gordon University. He spent over a decade as a staff reporter for newspapers including the Independent on Sunday as well as working as a freelance writer for the Guardian. His previous books include Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths.
'Engaging […] tackles the stereotyping of so-called 'left behind'
communities by journalistic and political opinion-formers,
questioning how the most disadvantaged have been framed (or blamed)
for delivering Brexit’
*Dominic Wring, Professor of Political Communication at
Loughborough University*
'A sophisticated interrogation of how the 'left behind' are
mythologised, problematised and weaponised by those whose insights
rarely stretch beyond regional condescension and recycled tropes.
Morrison deftly unpicks the left-behind imaginary and the culture
wars, fantasies and resentments it feeds into - and sketches a
powerful map for how to generate a more expansive, solidaristic
imaginary'
*Dr. Tracey Jensen, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
at Lancaster University*
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