What Brexit Means: An Anthropology of Polarization and Cultural Change in Britain

What Brexit Means explores the rise of populism in Britain. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork amongst ideologically committed Brexit activists, it examines the discourse of populism across language, culture, politics, psychology, and cognition.

Max Horder is a cognitive anthropologist working on issues of belief, trust, and identity in modern Europe. He completed his MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc from the London School of Economics. Max Horder received his PhD in Anthropology at Princeton University for his work on populism in Britain. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. This is his first book. He lives in London with his wife.