Changing Senses of Place
Navigating Global Challenges

Senses of place helps us navigate the stability and change in a world of multiple interconnected global challenges.

Christopher M. Raymond (Edited by), Lynne C. Manzo (Edited by), Daniel R. Williams (Edited by), Andrés Di Masso (Edited by), Timo von Wirth (Edited by)

9781108477260, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 August 2021

378 pages
25 x 17.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.87 kg

'Recommended.' G. J. Martin, Choice Magazine

Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for navigating these contested forces and encourages scholars to rethink how to theorise and conceptualise changes in senses of place in the face of global challenges. It also makes the case that our concepts of sense of place need to be revisited, given that our experiences of place are changing. This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.

List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: senses of place in the face of global challenges
Part I. Climate Change and Ecological Regime Shifts: 1. Coral reef collapse and sense of place in the great barrier reef, Australia
2. Navigating the temporalities of place in climate adaptation: case studies from the USA
3. The place-subjectivity continuum after a disaster: enquiring into the production of sense of place as an assemblage
4. Changing sense of place and local responses to Bengaluru's disappearing lakes
5. Place-making for regional conservation: negotiating narratives of stability and change
Part II. Migration, Mobility and Belonging: 6. Exploring senses of place through narratives of tourism growth and place change: the case of the faroe islands
7. No one is a prophet at home: mobility and senses of place in West Africa
8. Place detachment and the psychology of nonbelonging: lessons from diepsloot informal settlement
9. Sense of place in urban China: multiple determinants of rural-urban migrants' belongingness to the host city
Part III. Renewable Energy Transitions: 10. Farming landscapes, energy landscapes or both? using social representations theory to understand the impact of energy transitions on rural senses of place
11. Auto-photography, senses of place and public support for marine renewable energy
12. A life course approach to the pluralisation of sense of place: understanding the social acceptance of low-carbon energy developments
Part IV. Nationalism and Competing Territorial Claims: 13. Ethnocentric bias in perceptions of place: the role of essentialism and the perceived continuity of places
14. Sense of place between spatial justice and urban violence in Palestine
15. The political ecology of place meaning: identity, political self-determination and illicit resource use in the manas tiger reserve, India
Part V. Urban Change: 16. Uncovering competing senses of place in a context of rapid urban change
17. Gentrification and the creative destruction of sense of place: a psychosocial exploration of urban transformations in Barcelona
18. Looking at the urban invisibles: appropriation of space and senses of place by people living in the streets
Part VI. Technological and Legal Transformations: 19. Electronically mediated sense of place
20. A dynamic view of local knowledge and epistemic bonds to place: implications for senses of place and the governance of biodiversity conservation
21. Social media and experiences of nature: towards a plurality of senses of place
Part VII. Design and Planning Strategies for Changing Senses of Place: 22. Local sense(s) of place in a global world: towards a normative framework for spatial planners
23. Urban experimentation and the role of senses of place: an illustrative case from Rotterdam, the Netherlands
24. Domestic matters: IKEA catalogues, the good home and the changing aspirations of urban Chinese
Part VIII. Conclusion. 25. Navigating the Spaciousness of Uncertainties Posed by Global Challenges: A Senses of Place Perspective
Appendix 1. List of catalogues referred to in chapter 24
Index.

Subject Areas: Sustainability [RNU], Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Pollution & threats to the environment [RNP], Conservation of the environment [RNK], Applied ecology [RNC]