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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Attachment to place"”.
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ELDERLY SPACE IN CHINATOWN : A SENSE OF BELONGING AND ATTACHMENT TO PLACE
… the understanding of how elderly people react to spaces in which they inhabit and interact. In ‘Prisoners of Space’, Graham Rowles writes about the elderly’s attachment to space as he explores the changing relationship between an older person and his environmental context. His exploration led …
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Attachment to place: Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish and the Guadalupe neighborhood
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The personalisation of the visitor experience in the public interior and its contribution to emotional attachment to place: Towards a sensory-emotional framework for experiential design
… of experience in the public interior to uncover principles that can contribute to a design understanding of the visitor emotional attachment to place. It posits that catering for a diversity of sensory and emotional needs can foster a greater sense of belonging and wellbeing in the …
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Nostalgia and heritage in Korsten, Port Elizabeth, 1956 to 1990
… study centres on interdisciplinary notions of 'place’ (and its structures), the attachment to place, their ordinary and everyday potential heritage resources and the value of nostalgia as a method for engaging with these marginal heritages. The case is a set of values of a group of past users …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
Using New Historicist, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, my thesis examines the confluence of early modern Protestant England’s attempts to instate its nationhood on the world stage, its relations with Ireland and Scotland, and English writers’ representations of witchcraft. I discuss the ways …
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Represencing place: the assembly of a vertical landscape from in-between space
This project began with a personal attachment to place. An attachment to the Bo-Kaap as the embedded landscape of my spatial memory and cultural identity. My family holds a deep place attachment to the Bo-Kaap. It's the inscribed space of my forefathers and the only place that they've known as …
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Planning for small forest landscapes: facilitating the connection between people and nature
… most materials and workshops designed to assist small forest landowners focus on timber management and forest health and provide little information about managing for other goals. This suggests that there may be an opportunity to engage family forest owners in a more holistic way to …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
… is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their environmental knowledge systems which are embedded and expressed in their languages. The Kaike speakers of Tichurong in Dolpa, Nepal represent one of these endangered language communities, with approximately 800 …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
… is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their environmental knowledge systems which are embedded and expressed in their languages. The Kaike speakers of Tichurong in Dolpa, Nepal represent one of these endangered language communities, with approximately 800 …
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Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the politics of dwelling
… of Martin Heidegger, who grapples with the topic throughout the various phases of his lifelong meditation on Being. Heidegger continually gave thought to the relationship between Being and the place or site in which it becomes manifest, whether it is a system of references and manipulable …
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Escape to the beach : pre-retirement in-migrants' narratives of change, place and identity : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
… Once relocated, in-migrants seek ways to become endogenous actors in their new locale and construct new identities. A change of habitus is required to successfully navigate the transition from city-dweller to ‘local’. One avenue to achieve this is to engage with local volunteer …
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WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST
… intellectual and emotional connections to the land and culture of her youth in her writing. Blew's memoir All But the Waltz and Blunt’s memoir Breaking Clean reveal a friction between dependency on the land and necessary distancing from it that presents the opportunity to employ …
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WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST
… intellectual and emotional connections to the land and culture of her youth in her writing. Blew's memoir All But the Waltz and Blunt’s memoir Breaking Clean reveal a friction between dependency on the land and necessary distancing from it that presents the opportunity to employ …
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An Investigation of the Perceived Effects of, and Preparedness for, Climate Change on Tourism Stakeholders in the North Devon Unesco Biosphere
… change and the level of preparedness among tourism stakeholders and local residents in the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere (NDUB), a protected area in southwest England. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study draws on quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with residents, …
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Losing ground : locational formulations in argumentation over New Travellers
… rural space against New Travellers. In contrast to previous sociological and human geographical work in this area, instead of newspaper articles and Parliamentary discourse, participants' talk and texts are the starting point for the - investigation. The data corpora have been generated from a …
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Human Bonds with Public Wildland Places: Segmenting Communities to Inform Natural Resource Management
… must consider a broad range of information to develop effective and equitable plans for addressing contentious management issues. Appropriately designed social science research may contribute to better understanding of public interests regarding resource use, thus reducing conflict and …
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Human Bonds with Public Wildland Places: Segmenting Communities to Inform Natural Resource Management
… must consider a broad range of information to develop effective and equitable plans for addressing contentious management issues. Appropriately designed social science research may contribute to better understanding of public interests regarding resource use, thus reducing conflict and …
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Community-based social marketing at the neighborhood scale : sustainable behavior or neighborhood sustainability?
… Although McKenzie-Mohr and Smith's (1999) guide to "community-based social marketing" (CBSM) has gained increasing support, there have been few attempts to delineate when CBSM can (and should) be used. In this thesis, I explore the use of CBSM at the neighborhood scale: first, to encourage the …
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Sustainable Estates for the 21st Century: The motivations of landowners in upland Scotland: Exploring challenges to sustainability
… Estates for the 21st Century’ project, designed to understand how best to manage the relationships between people, place and the economy in the Scottish uplands. Large areas of these uplands are owned by private landowners who make significant decisions on land-use. However, past research has …
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Land Loss: Attachment, Place and Identity in Coastal Louisiana
… residents of coastal Louisiana experience due to coastal land loss. I rely on 126 in-depth interviews of residents from communities in six coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. A phenomenological approach …
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