Tag Archive for: place attachment

This presentation introduces the individually oriented landscape identity approach, the personal-existential identity of landscape, based on the Landscape Identity Circle created by Stobbelaar and Pedroli (2011). This view has a potential to bring together place-based visions that support regional distinctiveness and maintain continuity in the landscape, a significant knowledge for the policy makers. Here collectively invisible, yet individually significant places would have a potential to become socially acknowledged landscapes. We apply the personal-existential identity view with its four components (distinctiveness, continuity, self-esteem, and self-efficacy) to a historically rooted people based on three Estonian rural villages who have drawn on their place-bound memories and meanings to create an interconnected sense of self and materialised them in their surroundings. These meanings have materialised through the restoration of village borders, self-realisation in agriculture and civil governance, or enabling a particular place-bound lifestyle. Communicating self-oriented values connected to the place would strengthen locals’ continuity-oriented self-identity, self-esteem, and accordingly self-efficacy related to the area. Here is the significance of awareness about the ways of how one relates place attachment to the continuity of the self-concept, particularly in the areas of self-efficacy and self-actualisation. _x000D_
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Stobbelaar, D.J., & Pedroli, P. (2011). Perspectives on Landscape Identity: A Conceptual Challenge. Landscape Research, 36(3), 321–339._x000D_

Kadri Kasemets; Hannes Palang
Tallinn University, Centre for Landscape and Culture


 
ID Abstract: 473

Housing is often perceived as permanent, not only in everyday life, but also from an academic perspective. However, in a society characterized by increasing mobility and individualization, temporary living arrangements are no longer a rare phenomenon. Postmodern living and working environments with end-standardized rhythms lead to individualized and flexibilized lifestyles that are not conceived as permanent but often as temporary. _x000D_
Atypical forms of employment have increased in recent years. Both precarious employment, such as temporary work, and fixed-term employment contracts or project work can result in the need for temporary stays in cities. At the same time, the housing market has become tight in many places – in particular, there is a lack of low-cost housing – and in turn constitutes temporary living arrangements (e.g., multilocality with a second residence in a lower-cost place of residence)._x000D_
At this point, my dissertation aims to explore temporary forms of living of a very heterogeneous group that includes both low- and highly-skilled workers with correspondingly different income situations as well as living arrangements of very different durations. Using qualitative methods, I illustrate the everyday places in the city that are frequented by temporary residents, where they live and to what extent the temporary residents can develop feelings of belonging and home that were often previously associated with permanence at a place. In the German cities of Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, as well as two surrounding municipalities each, I conducted in-depth interviews with a variety of temporary residents, from students and seasonal workers to CEOs of international companies._x000D_
The presentation sheds light on the living situation of temporary residents in German cities. It focuses on the housing and working biography, the places of everyday life, and the emotional attachment to these places and to the city.

Maya Kretzschmar
RWTH Aachen University


 
ID Abstract: 471