Topothesia: Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess
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Brexit and a Geography of Discontent Brexit and a Geography of Discontent
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“Towns of Unquestionable Insignificance” “Towns of Unquestionable Insignificance”
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Marginal Geographies Marginal Geographies
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Postindustrial Provinciality and the Speculation of Rural Development Postindustrial Provinciality and the Speculation of Rural Development
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Naturalizing Place in “A New Development” Naturalizing Place in “A New Development”
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Unbelonging and the Collapse of Social and Psychic Reality Unbelonging and the Collapse of Social and Psychic Reality
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Abandoned Communities Abandoned Communities
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The Opacity of A ffect The Opacity of A ffect
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6 Geographies of Discontent: Brexit and the Politics of Abandonment
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Published:02 May 2023
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Abstract
This chapter asks how dislocations of space and identity operate not only in urban but also in provincial areas. I analyze this dynamic through Caryl Phillips’s novel A Distant Shore (2003), which in many ways prefigured the debate about Britain’s geographic fracture in the wake of the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union. Bringing together research from geography on the effects of rural gentrification and the impact of tourist economies, I show how the prerogatives of planning have imagined futures of productive and socially cohesive knowledge economies even in non-urban spaces, but ironically created conditions of economic inequality and racial hostility. In doing so, I turn to perhaps the most unlikely geography of postcolonial analysis—the provincial flashpoints of Brexit—in order to demonstrate the reach and extent of the planning imaginary and its ongoing, neocolonial mode. Without ceasing to be a speculative opening-up, spatial development also creates “geographies of discontent,” places and communities marked less by integration than by disintegration.
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