Maslen, Joseph (2023) Who Dares Wins: Learning to be Entrepreneurial as a Conservative Social Justice Discourse. British Politics. ISSN 1746-918X
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Abstract
In 2019, when Boris Johnson became Conservative leader and triumphed in that year’s mid-December general election, the Party’s identity was wrapped in success stories of opportunity and aspiration. These stories, themed around entrepreneurialism, presented success as a result of learning to take chances and embrace risk. Even when communicated to a bourgeois audience, these stories had a social justice dimension: the idea of learning to be entrepreneurial was projected onto subordinated groups—women and girls, working-class people and ethnic minorities—and seen as liberating for them. Using a corpus mostly of Telegraph newspaper articles published in the summer and autumn of 2019, this article offers a constructionist discourse analysis of that depiction of reality. Via a process of ‘sceptical reading’, it explores ‘true blue’ Conservatism’s underpinning discourse about learning to be entrepreneurial: that Britain’s post-Brexit future, laden with opportunity but requiring calculated risk, was a liberatory moment for the nation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The final, definitive version is available from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-023-00228-z |
| Keywords: | Entrepreneurialism; Conservatism; Social justice; Discourse; Brexit; Boris Johnson |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Joseph Maslen |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2023 13:17 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 14:25 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3828 |
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