TY - JOUR

T1 - Marching for Europe?

T2 - Enacting European citizenship as justice during Brexit

AU - Brändle, Verena Katharina

AU - Galpin, Charlotte

AU - Trenz, Hans-Jörg

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - This article examines pro-European mobilisation in the United Kingdom following the European Union (EU) referendum. It develops a framework that combines Isin’s ‘acts of citizenship’ with Nancy Fraser’s three dimensions of justice – redistribution, recognition and representation – to examine the way in which Brexit has served as a mobilisation trigger for claims about European citizenship. Drawing on data from a survey of participants of an anti-Brexit march in London, it argues that Brexit can be seen as a process that makes people aware of the ‘right to have rights’ as EU citizens. While some protesters experience Brexit as a struggle over the substance of justice within the United Kingdom, many of the ‘48%’ experience Brexit as a serious injustice that results from what Fraser calls ‘misframing’ in the context of struggles over the boundaries of the political community. In this sense, economic, cultural as well as political forms of injustice amount to a sense of personal grief over being ‘misframed’ in a UK outside the EU.

AB - This article examines pro-European mobilisation in the United Kingdom following the European Union (EU) referendum. It develops a framework that combines Isin’s ‘acts of citizenship’ with Nancy Fraser’s three dimensions of justice – redistribution, recognition and representation – to examine the way in which Brexit has served as a mobilisation trigger for claims about European citizenship. Drawing on data from a survey of participants of an anti-Brexit march in London, it argues that Brexit can be seen as a process that makes people aware of the ‘right to have rights’ as EU citizens. While some protesters experience Brexit as a struggle over the substance of justice within the United Kingdom, many of the ‘48%’ experience Brexit as a serious injustice that results from what Fraser calls ‘misframing’ in the context of struggles over the boundaries of the political community. In this sense, economic, cultural as well as political forms of injustice amount to a sense of personal grief over being ‘misframed’ in a UK outside the EU.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Brexit

KW - EU citizenship

KW - acts of citizenship

KW - justice

KW - mobilisation

KW - protest analysis

U2 - 10.1080/13621025.2018.1531825

DO - 10.1080/13621025.2018.1531825

M3 - Journal article

VL - 22

SP - 810

EP - 828

JO - Citizenship Studies

JF - Citizenship Studies

SN - 1362-1025

IS - 8

ER -