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Browning, Christopher S. (2018) Brexit, existential anxiety and ontological (in)security. European Security, 27 (3). pp. 336-355. doi:10.1080/09662839.2018.1497982 ISSN 0966-2839.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2018.1497982
Abstract
This article explores how the Brexit Referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union has been a source of destabilisation, dread and ontological anxiety. Focusing mainly on British citizens who voted or self-identified as “Remainers”, and on EU foreign nationals resident in the UK, it shows how existential anxieties have had different points of focus for different groups of people. Confronted with such destabilising anxieties, the article shows how people have adopted different mechanisms designed to reassert a sense of order and certitude often viewed as central to preserving ontological security. The ways in which this has been done, however, can themselves raise important questions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Referendum -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century, European Union -- Great Britain, Ontology -- Political aspects, Human security, Anxiety | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Security | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 0966-2839 | ||||||
Official Date: | 13 August 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 336-355 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09662839.2018.1497982 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Security on 13/08/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09662839.2018.1497982 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 July 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 February 2020 | ||||||
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