A challenge in comparing scholarship upon possession and place attachments is the absence of a single definition of place attachment.A challenge in comparing scholarship upon possession and place attachments is the absence of a single definition of place attachment. However, across the place attachment literature is a powerful theme of person-place bonding that unfolds over time via repeated interactions with place (Low and Altman 1992; Milligan 1998; Williams, Patterson, Roggenbuck and Watson 1992) Milligan (1998) put forwards a representative definition: place attachment is the emotional ligature formed by an individual to a physical site owing to the meaning given to the site [i]or[/i] part of to the other interactional processes. Leading to this emotional ligature with place are personalization processe that make a place or space "me" or "mine," "we" or "ours" (Low and Altman 1992; Cooper Marcus 1992) "Places are...repositories and connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughtss within which interpersonal, community, and cultural relationships take place and it is to those social relationships, not just to place qua place, to which nation are attached" (Low and Altman 1992 p 7) Emotional influences and their meanings form the basis of place attachment. This universal of emotional bonding runs end both the place and possession attachment literatures. What otherwise does place attachment have in belonging to all with material possession attachment? The following characteristics are plant in both literatures: Copyright (c) 2004 Academy of Marketing Science. All rights reserved |
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