547.Place attachment

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Abstract This paper presents a select review of the literature on approaches to place attachment. A review of literary works on the topic reveals that approaches to place attachment studies can be grouped into four broad domains: attachment to specific places and 'meaningful locations'; predictors vs consequences of place attachment; methodologies of place dimensions; and theoretical approaches to the study. Comparatively , we then consider the approach to studies on place attachment in South Africa through a selective review of empirical studies on the topic. These are grouped into three broad categories: community attachment and cultural symbolism studies; place, sense of place, and place identity studies; and studies on the historical perspective of environmentalism in South Africa. We posit that studies on place attachment in South Africa are relatively in their infancy, and that more could be done to augment methodolog-ical and theoretical gaps on place attachment research in the country. However, by selecting South Africa as a reference point for studies in the global South, we do not purport that the selected studies are representative of the wide plethora of studies on place attachment discourse in this region.

摘要本文介绍了关于地点依恋方法的文献的精选评论。对该主题的文学作品的回顾表明，地点依恋研究的方法可以分为四大领域：对特定地点和“有意义的位置”的依恋；地点依恋的预测因素与后果；地点维度的方法；以及研究的理论方法。相比之下，我们通过选择性地回顾有关该主题的实证研究，考虑了对南非地方依恋的研究方法。这些研究分为三大类：社区依恋和文化象征研究；地方、地方感和地方认同研究；以及关于南非环境主义历史视角的研究。我们认为，对南非地方依恋的研究相对处于起步阶段，还可以做更多的工作来弥补该国地方依恋研究的方法和理论空白。然而，通过选择南非作为全球南方研究的参考点，我们并不是声称所选研究代表了该地区关于地方依恋话语的大量研究。