Place Attachment Research
The main characteristic of the concept of place attachment, (Ainsworth & Bell, 1970) “the propensity of human beings to seek out the place in which they feel comfortable and secure”, the effective bond that people have with the place they habituate has rarely been explicitly emphasized (Hidalgo).
However, as Riley noted: “the affective attachments to ideas, people, psychological states, past experiences, and culture” are the crucial element of the concept. “And it is through the vehicle of particular environmental settings that these individual, group, and cultural processes are manifested.” The place, therefore, may be defined as a medium or milieu which embeds and is a repository of a variety of life experiences, is central to those experiences,
and is inseparable from them (Low).
Extending this idea, one can infer from many writings that place attachment plays a role in fostering individual and collective cultural sense of identity and uniqueness.
Authenticity as a dynamic, complex and multidimensional concept, has represented a challenge for scholars for a long time. Its fluidity, intangibleness and the abstractness, its state of constant flux has become especially important in the postmodern society, where globalization shifted from economic phenomenon to the phenomenon of identity , that causing a constant debate on the dialectic local/global and authenticity/fluidity of identity. Consequently, it has been difficult to define the concept of authenticity, up to the point that some scholars, such as Steiner and c, have propose to dismiss it completely, and replace it with some less pretentious concept such as like genuine, actual, accurate, real, and true ….. Drawing back from Heidegger learnings.
However, as Riley noted: “the affective attachments to ideas, people, psychological states, past experiences, and culture” are the crucial element of the concept. “And it is through the vehicle of particular environmental settings that these individual, group, and cultural processes are manifested.” The place, therefore, may be defined as a medium or milieu which embeds and is a repository of a variety of life experiences, is central to those experiences,
and is inseparable from them (Low).
Extending this idea, one can infer from many writings that place attachment plays a role in fostering individual and collective cultural sense of identity and uniqueness.
Authenticity as a dynamic, complex and multidimensional concept, has represented a challenge for scholars for a long time. Its fluidity, intangibleness and the abstractness, its state of constant flux has become especially important in the postmodern society, where globalization shifted from economic phenomenon to the phenomenon of identity , that causing a constant debate on the dialectic local/global and authenticity/fluidity of identity. Consequently, it has been difficult to define the concept of authenticity, up to the point that some scholars, such as Steiner and c, have propose to dismiss it completely, and replace it with some less pretentious concept such as like genuine, actual, accurate, real, and true ….. Drawing back from Heidegger learnings.