The study of belonging, its underlying notions, and the politics of belonging shows that
social, political, and territorial demarcations are still based on essentialist conceptions of the …

Background: In this paper, we report progress on “Neighborhoods: our people, our places”
an international study about how people living with dementia interact with their …

Geographers have extensively used Lefebvre's concept of space as a social product as a
framework guiding urban and political critique. Lefebvre articulates social space through a …

Sense of place is increasingly recognized as key to human wellbeing in social-ecological
systems. Yet there is limited understanding about how to define and evaluate it for …

Mining disrupts: it ruptures the boundary between the surface and the sub‐surface, it upsets
pre‐existing modes of living on the surface, it changes biogeochemical, social and …

The relational turn in the academic literature on environmental values explores ontologies
that rethink the dualistic, hierarchical separations of humans from nature. In particular, the …

Our starting point in this conceptual paper is the assumption that place-based approaches
can contribute to the sustainable development of communities and regions. In order to …

Energy transitions require engagement with users, local communities and wider publics in
order to be fair, acceptable and, ultimately, successful. Here we focus on the development of …

Driven by the need for radical change in our practices and values to escape crises, studies
on sustainability transitions have multiplied in recent years. Such radical transformations are …

Abstract J ones M. and W oods M. New localities, Regional Studies. During the mid-to-late
1980s,'locality'was the spatial metaphor to describe and explain the shifting world of …