Brexit Geographies

This comprehensive volume explores the political, social, economic and geographical implications of Brexit within the context of an already divided UK state. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Space and Polity.

Mark Boyle is Director of the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at the University of Liverpool, UK. Ronan Paddison is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. Peter Shirlow is Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Preface 1. Introducing 'Brexit Geographies': five provocations 2. Explaining 'Brexit capital': uneven development and the austerity state 3. Post-geography worlds, new dominions, left behind regions, and 'other' places: unpacking some spatial imaginaries of the UK's 'Brexit' debate 4. Geographies of Brexit and its aftermath: voting in England at the 2016 referendum and the 2017 general election 5. Brexit and new autochthonic politics of belonging 6. Women, equality and the UK's EU referendum: locating the gender politics of Brexit in relation to the neoliberalising state 7. Irish enough: changing narratives of citizenship and national identity in the context of Brexit 8. The pivotal position of the Irish border in the UK's withdrawal from the European Union 9. Ireland's borders, Brexit centre-stage: a commentary 10. 'Present realities' and the need for a 'lived experience' perspective in Brexit agri-food governance