Making Sense of Place
Subtitle: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781843837077
Subjects: Human beings, effect of environment on; Human ecology; Social ecology; Group identity; Historic sites
Description: "The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups define themselves and their relationship to their natural and cultural environments, and which over the last twenty years or so has been increasingly defined, theorized and used across diverse disciplines in different ways. Sense of place mediates our relationship with the world and with each other; it provides a profoundly important foundation for individual and community identity. It can be an intimate, deeply personal experience yet also something which we share with others. It is at once recognizable but never constant; rather it is embodied in the flux between familiarity and difference. Research in this area requires culturally and geographically nuanced analyses, approaches that are sensitive to difference and specificity, event and locale"--Publisher.