Risking Human Security - 9780367326715

Taylor & Francis

This book widens our vision to the public domain, to consider the ways in which social institutions, culture and social policy may diminish our ability to make and maintain secure attachments. It argues that collective human security depends in part on the quality of attachments amongst individuals. > Most research in the field of attachment is on the experiences of attachment, separation and loss, and their developmental course and effects. This book widens our vision to the public domain, to consider the ways in which social institutions, culture and social policy may diminish our ability to make and maintain secure attachments. It argues that > Introduction -- The Basic Principles of Attachment Theory -- The social construction of the human brain -- The Connections between Public Life and Personal Attachment -- Attachment and loss of community -- Labour to love -- Unsettling policies: unanticipated consequences for migrant Afro-Caribbean families -- Seeking asylum: the struge