Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world

Masso, Andrés Di; Williams, Daniel; Raymond, Christopher M.; Buchecker, Matthias; Degenhardt, Barbara; Devine‐Wright, Patrick; Hertzog, Alice; Lewicka, Magdalena; Manzo, Lynne C.; Shahrad, Azadeh; Stedman, Richard C.; Verbrugge, Laura; Wirth, Timo von

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“…The strong influence of the variables "individual experiences made in the place", "number of social contacts", "sense of community", and "outdoor recreation options" suggests that individual, social, collective, and spatial aspects are constitutive and of similar relevance for respondents' place attachment in the study areas overall. These basic characteristics and dynamics of place attachment have so far been scarcely considered in empirical studies [14,81]. The prominent role of social ties for place attachment has been most often highlighted [18,20,46].…”

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“…The identified need for, or potential of, improving the conceptual framework of the people-place relationship and its sub-constructs probably constitutes the main limitation of this study. In addition to an inclusion of social integration in the framework, there is a particular need to operationalize place attachment more comprehensively by differentiating between tradition and activity-related place attachment [84] and by considering multi-local place attachment [81]. A further limitation of the study refers to the focus on the Swiss-German context and the four typical study areas.…”

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“…Satisfaction with the place was quantified with four items measuring satisfaction with the private residence, with the residential environment, with the life in the residential environment, and with life in general (10 point scale). Respondents' proximity leisure behavior was measured, in accordance with Degenhardt et al [81], with four items referring to the leisure time spent in the green space around the house, the nearby outdoor recreation areas around the residential environment, the residential region, and outside of the residential region (5 point scale). Civic participation was measured with 12 items recording respondents' reported activity in twelve forms of political and civic participation (dichotomous variables).…”

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In the last decades, prosperous regions in Europe have experienced a tremendous rate of urbanization. In spite of considerable research efforts in the last decades, the socio-psychological implications of urbanization are still poorly understood. This paper aims to systematically determine the influence of urbanization on the relationships between inhabitants and their residential environment including their place attachment, place-satisfaction, civic participation, and proximity behavior. To achieve these goals, standardized cross-sectional questionnaires were administered to random samples (N = 1200 each) of the residential population in four study areas in Switzerland, which represent rural, peri-urban, suburban, and urban stages of urbanization. Statistical analysis revealed that place attachment was mainly influenced by the inhabitants' good experiences in the place, their sense of local community, their local social contacts, and the level of urbanization. A structural equation model (SEM) further showed that the degree of urbanization of the setting had a direct negative influence on place attachment, while place attachment appeared to be a key moderator of, and a main driver for, place-satisfaction, civic participation, and proximity behavior.A key to reducing negative impacts of urbanization is therefore to offer optimal opportunities for access to appropriate public places

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“…The papers particularly highlight that an analytical focus on place meanings is useful and even critical in the endeavour to further nuance our empirical understanding of how sense of place plays a practical role in SES dynamics. In addition, a focus on the dynamism of place has emerged, which begins to answer the calls to move beyond a static snapshot of sense of place, or a sense of place that emphasizes continuity at the expense of change (Di Masso et al 2019). These empirical studies have a strong focus on how social-ecological dynamics such as flooding due to climate change can influence aspects of sense of place, and how place-related behaviours impact these social-ecological dynamics in turn.…”

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“…These transformations have had an impact on how rural residents relate to place and their attachment to it [38]. Place attachment refers to the emotional bond that connects people to a place and that develops over time as people interact with the landscape [39].…”

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Place Attachment and Its Consequence for Landscape-Scale Management and Readiness to Participate: Social Network Complexity in the Post-Soviet Rural Context of Latvia and Estonia

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This paper uses the tripartite place attachment framework to examine six rural parishes across Estonia and Latvia. Existing analyses/frameworks on participatory processes often neglect the complexity of relationships that rural residents have to their local environments. From a qualitative analysis of face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with case study area inhabitants (23 interviews in Estonia and 27 in Latvia), we depict varying degrees of attachment of individuals to each other and to the place in which they live and their readiness to participate in terms of willingness and ability to participate in a landscape-scale management process. Attachment to the local area was strongest where the social ties were strongest, independent of their sociogeographical features. Social ties were strong where there were good family connections or strong religious or cultural institutions. Taking individual parishes and engaging inhabitants through in-depth interviews using place attachment analysis gives an overall perspective of life in that rural location. These findings reveal important connections within the communities with the potential for planners to engage with local inhabitants and possible barriers to participation.

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Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world

Cited by 171 publications

References 59 publications

The Implications of Urbanization for Inhabitants’ Relationship to Their Residential Environment

The Implications of Urbanization for Inhabitants’ Relationship to Their Residential Environment

Sense of place in social–ecological systems: from theory to empirics

Place Attachment and Its Consequence for Landscape-Scale Management and Readiness to Participate: Social Network Complexity in the Post-Soviet Rural Context of Latvia and Estonia

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