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dc.contributor.authorSochos, Antigonos
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-01T09:11:45Z
dc.date.available2022-09-01T09:11:45Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-07
dc.identifier.citationSochos A (2021) 'The European Union as an object of insecure collective attachment', Group Analysis, 54 (2), pp. 299-304.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0533-3164
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/05333164211001281
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/625518
dc.description.abstractIn this commentary I argue that the European Union has been functioning as an insecure object of collective attachment for large parts of the European population for many years. According to attachment theory, in relationships of asymmetrical power insecure attachment is formed as the narrative constructed by the most powerful party overwrites the authentic experience of the weakest, generating conflicted representation of self and the attachment object. That attachment object may be interpersonal or collective. The EU narrative on how it safeguards democracy and citizen well-being contradicts the true experience of many Europeans who struggle to make ends meet in neoliberal Europe. On this basis, an insecure collective bond with the EU is established, as the latter fails to recognize and address the needs of many of its citizens.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/05333164211001281en_US
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_US
dc.subjectattachmenten_US
dc.titleThe European Union as an object of insecure collective attachment : a response to ‘Brexit: Who is afraid of group attachment? Part I. Europe: What Europe?’ by Arturo Ezquerroen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1461-717X
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Bedfordshireen_US
dc.identifier.journalGroup Analysisen_US
dc.date.updated2022-09-01T09:09:43Z
dc.description.notesubmitted with no full text. author contacted for AAM 1/9/22 but not going to delay putting through to repository as will not be compliant anyway.


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