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 received his PhD in Anthropology at Princeton University for his work on populism in Britain.

1. Introduction: What Brexit Means, 2. Chapter One: Britain's Sacred? Sacrifice, Renewal, and the 2019 December General Election, 3. Chapter Two: Britain Alone: Readings on Myth, Fantasy, and Reality, 4. Chapter Three: Carnival and Critique: Towards a Structural-Functionalist Reading of Brexit, 5. Chapter Four: Populist Man as Philosopher: How Magical Consciousness Shapes Conspiracy Fantasy, 6. Conclusion: Brexit Means Brexit