1st Edition

The Power of Place in Place Attachment

Edited By Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen Copyright 2023
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides geographical perspectives on the complex and multifaceted relationship between people and their lived environments. Scholars with varied regional, theoretical, and topical specialties offer chapters that explore different aspects of a phenomenon so pervasive that no conception of social or political action can afford to ignore it. In the process of spatial organization and... Read more

1. The power of place in place attachment

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

2. Cognitive mapping as a method to assess peoples’ attachment to place

Jeffrey S. Smith and Ricardo Aranha

3. Rurality as a key factor for place attachment in the great plains

Andrew Husa and Cheryl E. Morse

4. Whose Puget Sound?: Examining place attachment, residency, and stewardship in the Puget Sound region

David J. Trimbach, Whitney Fleming and Kelly Biedenweg

5. "Tied to the land": Pipelines, plains and place attachment

Christina E. Dando

6. Indigeneity, displacement, and regional place attachment among IDPs from Crimea

Austin Charron

7. The role of nostalgia in (re)creating place attachments for a diasporic community

Holly R. Barcus and Amangul Shugatai

8. Multi-scalar territorialization in Kazakhstan’s northern borderland

Alexander C. Diener

9. Places of memory, historic preservation, and place attachment in Nazi Germany

Joshua Hagen

10. Geographies of place attachment: A place-based model of materiality, performance, and narration

Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

Biography

Alexander C. Diener is Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA. He works at the nexus of political, social, economic, and cultural geography, engaging topics such as geopolitics and borders, identity and migration, citizenship, development and mobility, and urban landscape change.

Joshua Hagen is Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA. His areas of research include borders and border theory; cultural politics of place names; demography, economics, and sustainability; and geographies of the pre-modern world.