Join us for our first colloquium of the fall semester with guest speaker Alexander C. Diener!
The event will be taking place on Thursday, September 21st @ AUST 344 at 4:00 P.M.
Abstract:
Place attachment is a burgeoning field of scholarship maturing in theory, method, and application. The phenomenon obviously relates to concepts of residency, including key questions such as: Who moves and why? Who stays and why? Who returns and why? But place attachment also encompasses broader networks of place and geographic contingency, including questions such as: How do place attachments form? Why do people form attachments to some places and not others? How are concepts of home and homeland negotiated within and across varied conditions of mobility? In this talk, Alexander Diener approaches 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 how this shapes 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). Keywords: place attachment, territorialization, environmental psychology, homeland, place identity, place dependency)
For more information, contact: Katie Baldi at katie.baldi@uconn.edu