{"id":2893,"date":"2019-03-29T16:59:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2893"},"modified":"2020-03-10T15:55:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T15:55:40","slug":"inequality-brexit-and-the-end-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/events\/inequality-brexit-and-the-end-of-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Inequality, Brexit and the End of Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Inequality, Brexit and the End of Empire: Danny Dorling &amp; Sally Tomlinson\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2dHInHs25oA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This event has now passed. You can watch a recording of the event here or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2dHInHs25oA\">YouTube<\/a> <\/em> <em>and<\/em> y<em>ou can download audio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/lse-player?id=4669\">here<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was the result of the 2016 EU referendum the last gasp of a view of empire based on nostalgia? Would a post-Brexit Britain be a nation willing to inhabit the world of the present instead of the past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 29 March, PEF, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/afsee.atlanticfellows.org\/\">Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equality<\/a>, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/International-Inequalities\">LSE International Inequalities Institute<\/a>&nbsp;hosted four eminent scholars to discuss overlooked elements in the Brexit story \u2013 Britain\u2019s past imperial might, jingoism, mythmaking and racism; deep-set anxieties about change and conflicting visions of the future \u2013 and the possibility of an unexpected outcome, namely that its shock to the national system may slow or even reverse the decades-long rise of inequality. The speakers were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Danny Dorling<\/strong>, Halford Mackinder&nbsp;Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/council-members\/\">PEF Council&nbsp;member.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.ox.ac.uk\/people\/sally-tomlinson\/\">Sally Tomlinson<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;Emeritus Professor at&nbsp;Goldsmiths University of London and Honorary&nbsp;Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/27518\">Gurminder K Bhambra<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;Professor of Postcolonial and&nbsp;Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/International-Inequalities\/People\/Beverley-Skeggs\">Bev Skeggs<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;Professor of Sociology and Academic Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme at the International Inequalities Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/author\/will-hutton\/\">Will Hutton<\/a>,<\/strong>&nbsp;Principal of Hertford College, co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre, former editor of the Observer and <a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/council-members\/\">PEF Council member<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event marked the release of Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson\u2019s book&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitebackpublishing.com\/books\/rule-britannia\"><em>Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire<\/em><\/a>, in which they argue that while Brexit will almost certainly require the UK to confront its own \u201cshocking, Dorian Gray-like deteriorated image\u201d, \u201cout of the ashes of Brexit could, should and perhaps will come a chastened, less small-minded, less greedy future. There are good reasons to be hopeful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Banner photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/05\/De_slag_bij_Terheide_-_The_Battle_of_Schevening_-_August_10_1653_%28Willem_van_de_Velde_I%2C_1657%29.jpg\">The Battle of Terheide, Willem van de Velde (I), 1657.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lecture at the London School of Economics shedding light on overlooked elements in the Brexit narrative and the vote&#8217;s relationship to the legacy of empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5058,"template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[168,184],"tags":[196,197,203],"class_list":["post-2893","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-event","category-public-lecture-series","tag-brexit","tag-economic-history-and-thought","tag-inequality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}