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Socialising place attachment
— place, social memory and embodied affordances | | Author(s) | Cathrine Degnen |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 36, no 8, September 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2016 |
| Pages | pp 1645-1667 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Rural areas ; Attitude ; Social contacts ; Participation ; Participant observation ; Barnsley. |
| Annotation | The significance of place attachment for later life has been convincingly demonstrated; and useful models have been offered that help account for the depth of feeling bound up in place attachment in later life, how this attachment is achieved, and its relevance for belonging and identity. To date, however, this focus has largely been on the individual level of experience. The author draws on sociological and anthropological perspectives, to consider how place attachment is forged and experienced in dynamic interaction with other entities and other processes: how place attachment is also a collective, relational and embodied process, caught up and experienced via social memory practices and sensorial, bodily knowledge. This resonates with and contributes to the 'relational turn', which has attracted burgeoning interest in the larger disciplines of sociology, human geography and anthropology, and reciprocally helps them extend and build their interaction with critical ageing studies. In making this argument, the author draws on two periods of anthropological, ethnographic participant observation that she conducted in a semi-rural village (Dudworth, near Barnsley) in the former coalfields of South Yorkshire. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160820204 A |
| Classmark | RH: RL: DP: TOA: TMB: 3DB: 85A |
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