Identity, Belonging and the Role of the Media in Brexit Britain
1 September 2018 - 30 November 2020
PI/s in Exeter: Professor Katharine Tyler
CI/s in Exeter: Professor Susan Banducci, Dr Travis Coan, Professor Dan Stevens
Research partners: Dr Cathrine Degnen (Newcastle, Anthropology). Research Fellows - Joshua Blamire and Laszlo Horvath
Funding awarded: (total funding of £ 753,728)
Sponsor(s): ESRC
Project webpage(s)
Identity, Belonging and the Role of the Media in Brexit Britain
About the research
This project will explore ethnographically the
attitudes, beliefs and values of individuals from different social backgrounds
(in terms of ethnicity, migration status, nationality, class, gender, religion
and generation) and geographical locations regarding questions of immigration,
national identity and European belonging in the face of Britain's exit from the
EU, and how this is reflected in identity formations. Because the media has
become inseparable from these political and social processes we will ask: What
role have media narratives around Brexit (both within traditional and social
media sources) played in these processes; to what extent are they reflected in
everyday lives; and in turn, to what extent are the narratives that are
uncovered in the everyday mirrored in the media? To address these
questions we will develop innovative research strategies that integrate
in-depth multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted across different areas of
England with quantitative national and local media content analysis.
