There is no place like home: Complexities in exploring home and place attachment

Windsong, Elena Ariel

doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2009.06.009

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“…Homeownership decreases mobility plans, as homeowners are 2.5 times more likely than renters to intend to remain in their neighbourhood 1 year after the survey (odds ratio = 2.485), and 2.4 times more likely to be there 5 years later (odds ratio = 2.389). This finding probably relates to the affected properties’ decrease in value (Bin & Polasky, ), which renders them harder to sell, as well as to homeowners’ increased emotional and social investments in the neighbourhoods where they have purchased homes (Windsong, ). The perception of one's neighbourhood being an excellent place to live increases the odds of planning to stay in one's neighbourhood, both in the short and medium term (odds ratios of 2.764 and 2.473).…”

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“…In the post‐disaster context, Morrice () highlights a “powerful emotional quality associated with how people relate to place, recognizing that return decisions are emotionally driven and not necessarily based on material constraints” (33). This is particularly true for homeowners who report a larger social and emotional place connection than renters (Windsong, ). Additionally, such factors as political trust (Reinhardt, ), emotion and nostalgia (Morrice, ), and connection to place (Landry, Bin, Hindsley, Whitehead, & Wilson, ) also play a role in return decision‐making by encouraging return migration.…”

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Move out or dig in? Risk awareness and mobility plans in disaster‐affected communities

Haney

2018

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Post‐disaster migration patterns have been thoroughly studied from a demographic standpoint, but affected community residents’ perceptions of ongoing risks and their willingness to remain in an affected community remain under‐researched. Using data generated by 407 surveys and 40 interviews with residents impacted by the 2013 Calgary flood, this study analyses the effects of flood experience on residents’ worry about future floods and their ensuing short‐term and medium‐term mobility plans. The results indicate that home flooding and evacuation orders are both predictive of worry about future floods. In turn, worry about future floods as well as age, homeownership, and place attachment are all predictive of post‐disaster mobility plans. Residents discuss how the flood either strengthened or weakened their place attachment. The paper concludes by discussing the implications for social science research and for public policy that aims to mitigate disaster risk.

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Move out or dig in? Risk awareness and mobility plans in disaster‐affected communities

Haney

2018

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…Even though the research team did not enquire about such attempts, the participants viewed them as important enough to raise, suggesting that residents are not only considering the possibility of another flood, but also undertaking mental work to make themselves less emotionally vulnerable, despite remaining physically and/or socially vulnerable. This is of course paradoxical: while the residents seek to restore ontological security, that is, routine and stability, they create simultaneously emotional distance from their milieus, which may, to some extent, prevent them from developing place attachment (Burley et al, 2007; Windsong, 2010) or locally em‐placed social capital (Aldrich, 2012; Aldrich and Meyer, 2014) capable of providing emotional support in a time of disaster in the future.…”

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Flooding and the ‘new normal’: what is the role of gender in experiences of post‐disaster ontological security?

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Gray‐Scholz

2019

Disasters

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Disaster researchers have long analysed disruption to affected residents' ontological security, often represented by routines and familiar landmarks. Surprisingly little of this work, though, assesses who is most likely to experience feelings of disruption. Using a representative set of survey data, complemented by follow‐up interview data from 40 residents affected by the Southern Alberta Flood of June 2013, this paper explores how demographic characteristics, such as gender and place attachment, impact on residents' sense of disruption and loss. The findings indicate that women and people with stronger emotional and social ties to their neighbourhoods are most likely to experience disrupted ontological security; home flooding and evacuation orders are also significant predictors. The qualitative interview data reveal that many participants felt unsettled and disrupted by myriad factors, such as ongoing construction, which prevented them from establishing a ‘new normal’. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for policymakers and service providers.

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“…This firm position is what we call home" (in Larsen, 2008, page 24). Home is a liberating place where one feels a friendly atmosphere, freedom to be, restored, a space that one controls and where privacy can exist (Seamon, 1979), independently from home ownership (Windsong, 2010). Dupuis and Thorns (1998) argue that ontological security (the need to be protected from the insecurities of the contemporary world) is maintained when "Home is a site of constancy in the social and material environment; home is a spatial context in which the day to day routines of humane existence are performed; home is a site where people feel most in control of their lives because they feel free from surveillance…; home is a secure base around which identities are constructed."…”

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Home away from home: A longitudinal study of the holiday appropriation process

2019

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The tourist experience has been the object of attention for some years yet how the experience unfolds remains an under-researched area. Despite the often exotic setting in which tourism consumption takes place away from individuals' daily life, tourism remains in reality an area of consumption that uniquely mixes both mundane and extraordinary components. Mundane rituals and habits are perhaps less desirable topics of investigation and as a result they have been under-researched, despite the fact that they constitute an important component of tourists' holiday experiences. Rituals can be analysed by using the concept of appropriation that investigates how consumers anchor themselves and develop competencies to adapt in a new experience setting. The appropriation concept has not been applied in a tourism setting and this first attempt aims to understand what it implies in this context. The appropriation process is composed of three steps: nesting, investigating and stamping (Carù and Cova, 2006). A longitudinal study conducted by in-depth interviews everyday of a one-week tourist stay at a ski resort details how consumers develop strategies to nest a temporary home and investigate their new territory. The results point to the importance and interplay of the appropriation phases, how they collectively contribute to the experience, and how resort managers can develop specific strategies to facilitate appropriation. It also investigates to which extent the appropriation model can be adapted to the tourism consumption context.

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There is no place like home: Complexities in exploring home and place attachment

Cited by 38 publications

References 10 publications

Move out or dig in? Risk awareness and mobility plans in disaster‐affected communities

Move out or dig in? Risk awareness and mobility plans in disaster‐affected communities

Flooding and the ‘new normal’: what is the role of gender in experiences of post‐disaster ontological security?

Home away from home: A longitudinal study of the holiday appropriation process

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