Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges

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.

Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
Christopher M. Raymond is Professor in Sustainability Science, Sustainability Transformations and Ecosystem Services at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland. He serves as Coordinating Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment. He has published extensively on the multiple values of nature. Lynne C. Manzo is an environmental psychologist and Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Her research focuses on place attachment, displacement, social justice and the politics of place. Daniel R. Williams is Research Social Scientist at the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. He has published extensively on place-based conservation, adaptive governance of landscape change and the science of practice in wildfire and climate adaptation. Andrés Di Masso is Associate Professor at the Departmental Section of Social Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain. His work focuses on place-discourse, power and the everyday politics of people-place relations. He has contributed innovative theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches to place attachment, sense of place and place identity. He leads an international network on social change (GRICS). Timo von Wirth is Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Netherlands. His work addresses the dynamics and contestations of places in transformation. He has published extensively on the role of place in sustainability transitions, on the relationship of place attachment and urban change, and on the advancement of measuring the quality of life in urban contexts.

Review :
'Changing Senses of Place is a tour-de-force, provoking the reader to think more deeply about how we view place and the challenges faced by globalisation in its many forms. The volume provides vital guidance in how we might navigate an increasingly uncertain and precarious future.' Guy M. Robinson, University of Adelaide, Australia 'Recommended.' G. J. Martin, Choice Magazine