Plural and fluid place attachment amid tourism-induced neighborhood change in a disadvantaged neighborhood in South Korea

Migration to the metaverse and its predictors: Attachment to virtual places and metaverse-related threat

“…In many studies, place attachment is thought to increase one's desire to stay in a particular place, thus hindering the decision to migrate. However, an important limitation of this approach is that it views place attachment as a static characteristic that defines the relationship between a person and a place in a one-dimensional way (Kim, 2021). Meanwhile, newer approaches emphasise that place attachment should be treated as a dynamic phenomenon subject to increase or decrease due to changes in place or life circumstances (Devine-Wright & Quinn, 2020).…”

“…Meanwhile, newer approaches emphasise that place attachment should be treated as a dynamic phenomenon subject to increase or decrease due to changes in place or life circumstances (Devine-Wright & Quinn, 2020). As a result of mobility, there are possibilities for developing attachment to multiple places simultaneously (Kim, 2021). However, mobility can also alter the strength of one's attachment to previous and subsequent places of residence (Lewicka, 2020;Di Masso et al, 2019).…”

(Re)visiting the neighbourhood

“…The ‘inheritance’ of a neighbourhood's (perhaps negative) history has varied implications for those who have live and continue to live in such neighbourhoods (Ewards‐Öberg, 2020). Such varied implications have related to ‘time spent in a place’ as contributing to a ‘sense of “feeling right”’ (Preece, 2020: 6 and 7), and to strong social bonds linked to temporal and genealogical narratives of neighbourhood adversity, which have ‘strengthened pride of place and greater attachment to neighbourhood across generations’ (Hoekstra, 2019; Frost & Catney, 2020: 2844; Kim, 2021). What is clear from this recent scholarship is that ‘… place attachment [to the neighbourhood] is bound to social memory, embodied knowledge, and the significance of the passage of time’ (Degnen, 2016: 1646), and again not always straightforwardly, nor with predefined adhesive qualities.…”

“…This thickening provides nuance and depth to (the often numerically calculated) descriptions of place attachment (Bradley, 2017; Lager et al., 2019; Preece, 2020; Wang & Ramsden, 2018). Such nuance involves narratives that ‘encompass nostalgia, a sense of belonging, and emotional solidarity in strengthening their bonds between people and place’ (Kim, 2021: 133) and opens space for ‘critical engagement with how people's pasts influence how they react to their surroundings and how the processes of memory effect the body’ (Osborne, 2019: 68).…”

“…The spatial formation of the neighbourhood is a contingent factor when considering the neighbourhood as a concept, place, and context. Spatial formation has often also been linked to a neighbourhood aesthetics (Pinkster, 2016), its environmental attributes (Lewicka, 2010), its walkability (van den Berg et al, 2017), layout and planning (Talen, 2019), and its architectural styles too (Kim, 2021;Qian & Li, 2017). Talen (2019) has reasoned that a neighbourhood's shape and form -including ease of mobility, access, quality public spaces, green spaces and multifunctionality -enables social connections in the everyday neighbourhood.…”