TY - T1 - Brexit barbarization? : The UK leaving the EU as de-civilizing trend SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/329204 T3 - A1 - Inglis, David A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Social scientists have begun to offer varied diagnoses of why Brexit has happened, and what its consequences have been and will likely be. This article does so by drawing upon Elias-inspired notions of longer-term de-civilizing processes, shorter-term de-civilizing spurts, and short-term de-civilizing offensives. Brexit is conceived of as involving a set of interlocking phenomena and tendencies which are de-civilizing in nature, and therefore de-cosmopolit(an)izing too. Diverse empirical phenome... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 5141 Sociology; Brexit; Elias; civilization; de-civilizing; civilizing; process N1 - PP - ER -