Interactional Past and Potential: The Social Construction of Place Attachment

Milligan, Melinda J.

doi:10.1525/si.1998.21.1.1

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“…This is referred to by Scannell and Gifford (2010b) as a socially-based place bond. Several other authors in the environmental psychology literature, noting that this bonding consists of social ties, use terms such as belongingness (Milligan, 1998;Hammitt, Kyle & Oh, 2009), sense of community (Perkins & Long, 2002;Pretty, Chipuer, & Bramston, 2003) and neighbourhood attachment (Brown et al, 2003;Lewicka, 2005) …”

Section: Place Social Bondingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Attachment theory has expanded over the last thirty years to include other social relationships between adults (Hazan & Shaver, 1994) and other social environments (Milligan, 1998;Wiles, Allen, Palmer, Hayman, Keeling, & Kerse, 2009) including one's neighbourhood (Brown, Perkins, & Brown, 2003 and places (Kyle, Graefe, Manning, & Bacon, 2004a;Kyle, Mowen, & Tarrant 2004b;Garrod, 2008;Morgan, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Place attachment and pro-environmental behaviour in national parks: the development of a conceptual framework

Ramkissoon

Weiler

Smith

2012

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This paper critically examines the concept of place attachment and its likely influence on proenvironmental behavioural intention of visitors. It considers place attachment as a multidimensional construct comprising place dependence, place identity, place affect, and place social bonding, and suggests that research investigating this relationship in a national park context is fragmented, scattered, and often does not fully consider its multi-dimensional nature. A coherent and integrated approach is needed to advance the field. By considering place attachment as an attitude and acknowledging the close relationship between attitude and behavioural intention when both are directed toward a particular object or environment, the paper develops a conceptual framework that integrates the different place attachment subconstructs. It presents their relationship to pro-environmental behavioural intention as a series of propositions. The framework further considers place satisfaction to exert a direct influence on visitors' pro-environmental behavioural intentions in national parks and a moderating effect on the relationship between the different place constructs and proenvironmental behavioural intention in parks. Finally, the latter construct is proposed to influence visitors' general pro-environmental behavioural intentions. The paper's theoretical contributions, its limitations and its practical implications for sustainable tourism in general and national park management in particular, are discussed.

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Section: Place Social Bondingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place attachment and pro-environmental behaviour in national parks: the development of a conceptual framework

Ramkissoon

Weiler

Smith

2012

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

406

268

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“…A general mechanism leading to continuity in the neighborhood environment is the set of ties, both social and psychological, that connect individuals to places (Altman and Low 1992;Elder, King, and Conger 1996;Fried 1982;Gerson, Stueve, and Fischer 1977;Milligan 1998). Individuals' social and familial ties are often centered around specific places, which may lead to continuity in the types of residential environments that individuals occupy that is not consistent with their economic circumstances.…”

Section: The Mechanisms Underlying Intergenerational Contextual Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Intergenerational Transmission of Context

Sharkey

2008

American Journal of Sociology

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This article draws on the extensive literature on economic and social mobility in America to examine intergenerational contextual mobility, defined as the degree to which inequalities in neighborhood environments persist across generations. PSID data are analyzed to reveal remarkable continuity in neighborhood economic status from one generation to the next. The primary consequence of persistent neighborhood stratification is that the racial inequality in America's neighborhoods that existed a generation ago has been transmitted, for the most part unchanged, to the current generation. More than 70% of black children who grow up in the poorest quarter of American neighborhoods remain in the poorest quarter of neighborhoods as adults, compared to 40% of whites. The results suggest that racial inequality in neighborhood economic status is substantially underestimated with short-term measures of neighborhood income or poverty and, second, that the steps taken to end racial discrimination in the housing and lending markets have not enabled black Americans to advance out of America's poorest neighborhoods.A long and rich tradition of research in the social sciences is devoted to describing and explaining patterns of social and economic mobility in 1 I thank Robert Sampson, William Julius Wilson, and Chris Winship for their critical input on this project. I am also grateful for feedback from audiences at several universities at which I presented the paper. I received particularly detailed and valuable comments from Xavier de

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“…To the Norwegians then 'socialized in the coast culture of Norway, this environment had meaning and value in terms of sustenance and psychological satisfaction' (Jonassen, 1948(Jonassen, /1961. Nostalgia for place helps immigrants regain what is lost (Eliade, 1982) and retain some semblance of continuity (Milligan, 1998) in their lives. Relocation, then, is often characterized by the 'struggles to defend or recover a meaningful pattern of relationships' (Marris, 1976, p. 1).…”

Section: Ethnic Enclaves Place Identity and Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stories then keep thecollective place memory alive. Buildings, artifacts, and other objects of material culture also tell a story and act to preserve 'social memories' (Zerubavel, 1996), 'signify history, relationships, current practices and goals' (RochbergHalton, 1986, p. 191), and transmit information about a group's collective past (Milligan, 1998). From Relph (1976) and Rapoport (1982) we learn that the urban landscape can act as a means of nonverbal communication, 'as a mnemonic .…”

Section: Ethnic Enclaves Place Identity and Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%