ABSTRACT

Attachments are intrinsic to the human condition. Geographers and related scholars are especially interested in place attachments and how they shape everyday routines (e.g. routes to work, shopping, social interactions), major life choices (e.g. places of residence, education, vacations), and identities (e.g. civic, national, religious). This article explores the complexity and richness of place attachment as researched across multiple disciplines while also outlining how geographers can make a more pronounced contribution. To that end, this article surveys place attachment research and in the process demonstrates the recent dearth of explicit research on the topic in geography compared to other disciplines, especially psychology. Subsequent sections show how geographers implicitly engage place attachment as a theme, even if by other names, and identify areas of possible synergy with cognate disciplinary approaches. In an effort to reinvigorate interest among geographers and emphasize the need for a multi-dimensional consideration of place as integral to understanding place attachment, this article provides a model of place attachment as an assemblage of materiality, performance, and narration. Rather than being static or deterministic, this model points to people’s varied capacities to make and remake place attachments, and in doing so reasserts the power of place in place attachment.

摘要

依恋是人类条件所固有的。地理学家和相关学者对地方依恋及其如何塑造日常生活（例如上班路线、购物、社交互动）、主要生活选择（例如居住地、教育、假期）和身份（例如公民、国家、宗教）。本文探讨了跨学科研究的地方依恋的复杂性和丰富性，同时概述了地理学家如何做出更显着的贡献。为此，本文调查了地方依恋研究，并在此过程中表明，与其他学科（尤其是心理学）相比，地理学最近缺乏对该主题的明确研究。随后的部分展示了地理学家如何隐含地将地方依恋作为一个主题，即使是其他名称，并确定可能与同类学科方法产生协同作用的领域。为了重振地理学家的兴趣并强调需要多维考虑地方作为理解地方依恋的组成部分，本文提供了一个地方依恋模型，作为物质性、表现和叙述的组合。该模型不是静态的或确定性的，而是指出人们制造和改造地方依恋的不同能力，并在这样做时重申地方对地方依恋的力量。本文提供了一个地方依恋模型，作为物质性、表演和叙述的组合。该模型不是静态的或确定性的，而是指出人们制造和改造地方依恋的不同能力，并在这样做时重申地方对地方依恋的力量。本文提供了一个地方依恋模型，作为物质性、表演和叙述的组合。该模型不是静态的或确定性的，而是指出人们制造和改造地方依恋的不同能力，并在这样做时重申地方对地方依恋的力量。