Place Attachment
Conveners
Aims
- to promote high quality scholarship on the subject of place attachment and identity, encompassing theory, method and practical application
- to provide a forum for building a global community of researchers on place that spans disciplinary boundaries (psychology, human geography, anthropology, economics, architecture, urban design, land-use planning, leisure studies, sociology etc.)
- to promote PhD research on place attachment and provide a forum for PhD students to network and collaborate
Key topics
- Spaces of places vs. spaces of flows in the globalized world
- Mobility and people-place relationships
- Role of place in pro-environmental behaviors
- Role of place in autobiographical and collective memories
- Measurement of people-place relationships
- Place identity as a social psychological construct
- Role of physical dimensions of place in place attachment
- Phenomenological and positivistic approaches to people-place relationships.
- Non-places: nature and evolution of meaning
The type of work we are expecting to generate
- Collaborative research
- Cross-country comparisons
- Joints publications
- Conferences
- Contribution to the theory of place and people-place relationships