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A place called home
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The authors reviewed literature on the concept of "place" and discussed its relevance to housing research and provided a working definition of place before embarking upon an examination of the connections between place and identity.Abstract:
This article reviews literature on the concept of 'place' and discusses its relevance to housing research. The article begins by providing a working definition of place before embarking upon an examination of the connections between place and identity. The nature of such attachments to place is examined through the work of Martin Heidegger (1973) and Pierre Bourdieu (1979). The relationship between place attachment and the volatile political-economy of place construction is subsequently discussed. The paper then continues with an outline of the importance of the concept of 'place' for housing researchers and concludes with some suggestions for further research. While discussions about 'place' have been a key preoccupation of geographers for some decades, housing researchers have barely touched on the subject. Yet, at the present time - a time of increasing migration, expanding urbanization, and swelling investments in place-construction (ranging from individual real-estate sales to city and regional re-de...read more
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Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years?
TL;DR: A review of several hundred empirical and theoretical papers and chapters reveals that despite mobility and globalization processes, place continues to be an object of strong attachments as discussed by the authors, and the main message of the three components of the tripartite model of place attachment (Scannell & Gifford, 2010a ), the Person component has attracted disproportionately more attention than the Place and Process components.
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Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference
TL;DR: In this article, the material frames of daily life are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other, and they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life.
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Rethinking NIMBYism: The role of place attachment and place identity in explaining place‐protective action
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework of place change is proposed encompassing stages of becoming aware, interpreting, evaluating, coping and acting, with each stage conceived at multiple levels of analysis, from intrapersonal to socio-cultural.
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The politics of home: belonging and nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States
TL;DR: Men and women feel more at home at work when they feel at home in the community and in the country, according to the Dutch National Archives as discussed by the authors, and men and women tend to feel more comfortable at work than at home.
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The Poetics of Space
TL;DR: In this paper, Bachelard examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.
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Place-identity: Physical world socialization of the self
TL;DR: In this article, a brief review of the social and cultural processes involved in the development of self-identity is presented, where the role of places and spaces in this aspect of human psychological development is discussed.
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A Space for Place in Sociology
TL;DR: Sociological studies sensitive to the issue of place are rarely labeled thus, and at the same time there are far too many of them to fit in this review as discussed by the authors, and it may be a good thing that this research is seldom gathered up as a socology of place, for that could ghettoize the subject as something of interest only to geographers, architects, or environmental historians.