Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications

by Lynne Manzo (Editor), Patrick Devine-Wright (Editor)

Overview

Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches.

Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity, create meaning in our lives, facilitate community, and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and belonging, placemaking and displacement, mobility and migration, intergroup conflict, civic engagement, social housing and urban redevelopment, natural resource management, and global climate change.

In this multidisciplinary book, Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe, including contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams, Mindy Fullilove, Randy Hester, and David Seamon, to capture significant advancements in three main areas: theory, methods, and applications. Over the course of fifteen chapters, using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods, the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge, identify significant advances, and point to areas for future research.

This important volume offers the most current understandings about place attachment, a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and placemaking professions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367223496
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/22/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lynne C. Manzo is an environmental psychologist and Professor in the College of Built Environments and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research focuses on people–place relationships, particularly place attachment, displacement, and socio-spatial justice.

Patrick Devine-Wright is a Professor in the Geography department at the University of Exeter, UK. His research combines environmental psychology and human geography perspectives to focus on the role of place attachment in relation to climate change and energy transitions. He is the lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Chair of the Devon Net Zero Task Force.

Table of Contents

List of figures ix

List of tables xi

Acknowledgements xii

Notes on contributors xiii

Introduction 1

Part I Theory

1 Metatheoretical moments in place attachment research: Seeking clarity in diversity Daniel R. Williams Brett Alan Miller 13

2 Place attachment and phenomenology: The dynamic complexity of place David Seamon 29

3 Parallels between interpersonal and place attachment: An update Leila Scannell Elizabeth Williams Robert Gifford Carmen Sarich 45

4 In search of roots: Restoring continuity in a mobile world Maria Lewicka 61

5 Place attachment as discursive practice: The role of language, affect, space, power, and materiality in person-place bonds Andrés Di Masso John Dixon Kevin Durrheim 77

Part II Methods

6 Theoretical and methodological aspects of research on place attachment Bernardo Hernández M. Carmen Hidalgo Cristina Ruiz 95

7 The role of qualitative approaches to place attachment research Lynne C. Manzo Laís Pinto De Carvalho 111

8 Articulating transnational attachments through on-site narratives and collaborative creative processes Clare Rishbeth 127

9 Beyond the "local": Methods for examining place attachment across geographic scales Christopher Raymond Sarah Gottwald 143

Part III Applications

10 Community responses to environmental threat: Place cognition, attachment, and social action Nikolay L. Mihaylov Douglas D. Perkins Richard C. Stedman 161

11 Revisiting "The Frayed Knot": What happens to place attachment in the context of serial forced displacement? Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD 177

12 Place attachment and environment-related behavior Ferdinando Fornara Massimiliano Scopelliti Giuseppe Carrus Mirilia Bonnes Marino Bonaiuto 193

13 Reattach! Practicing endemic design Randolph T. Hester, JR. 208

14 Dynamics of place attachment in a climate changed world Patrick Devine-Wright Tara Quinn 226

15 The agency of place attachment in the contemporary co-production of community landscapes Deni Ruggeri 243

Index 261

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of place attachment theory, methods, and applications. It is must read for anyone wanting to gain a transdisciplinary understanding of people’s emotional bonds with particular places, and how those are shifting in response to contemporary patterns of climate change, disease pandemics, rapid urbanization, and enforced migration."

- Daniel Stokols, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, USA, and author of Social Ecology in the Digital Age.

"Place attachment describes the emotional bonds that people form toward physical environments. As in the first edition, the book includes 15 chapters written by many of the same researchers and/or practitioners. It is the diverse set of 32 authors who specialize in environmental, social, and community psychology, geography, medicine, sociology, environmental studies, and architecture that provides the book with an excellent range of perspectives on traditional and modern conceptualizations of place attachment and its continued utility in social science … the second installment of the book ‘Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods, and Applications’ is timely as built and natural environments around the world undergo substantial alteration because of continued climate change and the COVID- 19 pandemic. This book makes it clear that the mechanisms through which people bond to place, and how those bonds can be reliably examined, interpreted, and utilized are highly relevant to the discipline of psychology and beyond."

– Lindsay J. McCunn, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada

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