Place Attachment edited by Irwin Altman.
In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplines-including anthropology, folklore, and psychology-and points towards promising directions of future research.
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2012.
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| Series: | Human Behavior and Environment, Advances in Theory and Research ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Place Attachment: A Conceptual Inquiry
- Background
- The Concept of Place Attachment
- Some Aspects of Place Attachment
- Development of Place Attachments
- Role and Purpose of Place Attachment
- Reprise
- References
- 2 Attachment to the Ordinary Landscape
- Biology, Culture, and Individual
- Encounter, Time, and Fantasy
- Questions and Directions for Future Research
- Cautionary Notes
- References
- 3 Attachment to Possessions
- Attachment, Extended Self, and Possessions
- Toward a Theory of Attachment to Possessions
- Attachment to Possessions and Human Well-Being
- Summary and Future Directions for Research
- References
- 4 Childhood Place Attachments
- Sources of Developing Attachment
- Place Attachments in Object Relations Theory
- Remembered Places
- Reported and Presented Places
- Directions for Future Research
- References
- 5 Environmental Memories
- Adult Memories of the Special Places of Childhood
- Reproducing Special Places of Childhood in the Adult Home
- The Current Home as a Contrast to That of Childhood, or as a Replay of Unresolved Childhood Problems
- Aging and the Memories of Dwellings
- Future Directions for Research
- Conclusion
- References
- 6 Home as a Workplace in the Lives of Women
- Toward a Social Construction of Place Attachment
- Domestic Ideology and the Myth of the Privatized Home
- The Meaning of Work and "Women's Work"
- Home Workplaces in African-American Women's Experience
- Complex Bonds to Home: Homeworking Women Today
- Conclusions and Future Directions
- References
- 7 Attachment to Place and the Representation of the Life Course by the Elderly
- Three Cases
- An Integrative Model of Place Attachment in Later Life
- Individual Definition, Collective Definition, and Centrality of Place
- Conclusion and Future Directions for Research
- References
- 8 Symbolic Ties That Bind: Place Attachment in the Plaza
- A Cultural Definition of Place Attachment
- A Typology of Cultural Place Attachment
- Plaza Ethnography: A Case Study of Place Attachment
- Future Directions for Research and Design
- References
- 9 Spaces That Teach: Attachment to the African Compound
- The Importance of Place
- The Neighborhood of Adabraka
- The Urban Compound
- Adabraka's Compound Living
- The Significance of Compound Space
- Compound Order
- Anthropology and Compound Attachment
- Of Interest to Environmental Planners
- Future Directions of Research--Design and Policy
- References
- 10 Transcendence of Place: The Role of La Placeta in Valencia's Las Fallas
- Theoretical Background
- History of Las Fallas
- Organizational Structure
- Ritual Transcendence
- Conclusion
- Directions for Future Research
- References
- 11 Thresholds to an Alternate Realm: Mapping the Chaseworld in New Jersey's Pine Barrens
- Theoretical Framework
- Pine Barrens Foxhunting
- Delineating the Chaseworld
- Boundary Maintenance: Chaseworld Insiders and Outsiders
- Place as Kommunicative Umwelt
- Implications and Directions for Future Research
- References
- 12 Community Attachment: Local Sentiment and Sense of Place
- Community Sentiment: An Interdisciplinary Review
- Community Sentiment and Sense of Place
- Researching Community Sentiment: New Directions
- References
- 13 Disruptions in Place Attachment
- A Conceptual Framework
- Disruptions to Attachment via Changes in Place Processes
- Disruptions to Attachment via Changes in Places
- Commonalities across Disruptions
- Future Research Directions and Summary
- References.