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Home : how habitat made us human
\"Home is where the heart is. Security, comfort, even love, are all feelings that are centered on the humble abode. But what if there is more to the feeling of being at home? Neuroanthropologist John S. Allen believes that the human habitat is one of the most important products of human cognitive, technological, and cultural evolution over the past two million years. In Home, Allen argues that to \"feel at home\" is more than just an expression, but reflects a deep-seated cognitive basis for the human desire to have, use, and enjoy a place of one's own\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Moving places
Moving Places draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making. The book centers on \"moving places\": places with locations that are not fixed but relative. Locations appearing to be reasonably stable, such as home and homeland, are in fact always subject to practices, imaginaries, and politics of movement. Bringing together original ethnographic contributions with a clear theoretical focus, this volume spans the fields of anthropology, human geography, migration, and border studies, and serves as teaching material in related programs.
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“Here, I will stay until I die”—exploring the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior in two small Norwegian communities
This empirical study explores the interplay between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior, within two small Norwegian communities exposed to flash flooding. Through a mixed-methods narrative approach, we found that most of our respondents exhibited positive attachment to their communities, aligning with previous studies in rural settings. Using a conceptual model of place attachment (Raymond et al. 2010), the study identified five dimensions of attachment among the respondents: place identity, place dependency, family bonding, friend bonding, and nature bonding. The most dominant narratives centered around practical ties to the area through family and place dependency, combined with symbolic attachments in the form of nature and identity. Place attachment through generational ties, closeness to nature, and access to historical knowledge influenced residents’ risk perception, here displayed as heightened awareness of flash flood-related risks. This risk awareness did however not translate directly into feeling at risk. Findings point to residents’ underestimating risk close to home, which could partially be explained by strong place attachment. Coping behavior was mainly motivated by previous hazard experiences. Place dependency and family bonding contribute to explaining the resident’s reluctancy to relocate as a coping strategy. We found that place attachment can act as both a mediator and a moderator between risk perception and coping behavior, and the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior is complex. While no clear causal relationship was established, understanding common elements in risk narratives can enhance community resilience and inform strategies to address community concerns.
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The Mediating Role of Perceived Comfort between Workplace Attachment Style and Perceived Stress
Past studies highlight the relevance of attachment theory to the study of workplace stress and the impact of employee assessments about the physical–spatial work environment on their health. This paper is one of a number of works studying the points of connection between Bowlby’s attachment theory and the place attachment theory adopted by environmental psychologists. We proposed that a secure workplace attachment style would be negatively associated with perceived stress (and vice versa for insecure workplace attachment styles). Perceived comfort was hypothesized to mediate these effects. A convenience sample of French white-collar workers (N = 379) completed an online survey. Hypotheses were tested using the PROCESS macro. Both insecure workplace attachment styles (i.e., avoidant and preoccupied) were negatively associated with perceived comfort, which partially mediated their positive effect on perceived stress. The preventive influence of a secure workplace attachment on perceived stress was entirely mediated by its positive effect on perceived comfort. By setting different expectations regarding the work environment, workplace attachment styles could translate into a more or less stressful and comfortable employee experience. The more secure the bond employees internalize with their workplace, the more they might benefit from its comforts’ restorative potential.
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Visualising place, memory and the imagined
\"Communities and social groups experience place through real and imagined facets, to make sense of the world and the stories told therein. This book engages with and expands on crucial issues of representation, storytelling, tangible material cultures and memories. The visualisation methodology illustrated in this book will be useful for undertaking and publishing participatory fieldwork. This book seeks to join up the dots of the factual and imaginary that form affective networks of identities, which in turn shape local memory, sense of self, community and sense of the past. Make-believe spaces - in the environment, storytelling, and mnemonic narratives - as a social framework that aligns and informs the everyday memory worlds of communities. Heritage specialists, ethnographers, cultural geographers and oral history practitioners will find the methodology affordable, easy to replicate and valuable for community-based projects\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Processes of Place Attachment: An Interactional Framework
How do people formplace attachments through interaction with others and with places over time? I propose that there are seven distinct processes through which people form bonds with places. This framework was developed from the analysis of 104 depth interviews conducted in California and Colorado, newspaper and magazine columns and letters, memoirs, and first person essays. This framework proposes that seven distinct processes interact at the individual, group, and cultural level to shape place attachment. Each of the seven processes has a unique nature and develops differently over time and space.
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