Place Attachment / / edited by Irwin Altman, Setha M. Low

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1992
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1992.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.9
• Soggetto topico: Community psychology; Environmental psychology; Community and Environmental Psychology; Aferrament (Psicologia); Psicologia comunitària; Psicologia ambiental
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Persona (resp. second.): AltmanIrwin; LowSetha M
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Place Attachment
• ISBN: 1-4684-8753-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807833603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Human Behavior and Environment ; ; 12