Belonging is a notion both vaguely defined and ill‐theorized. Scholars in various social
disciplines often take this notion for granted, as if its meaning is somewhat self‐explanatory …

This paper reviews recent research on the nature of local belonging. It highlights how local
belonging continues to matter to most people; that it can have individual and collective …

This contribution to a spatial theory of sense of place is an invitation to seek a better
understanding of the importance of physical and concrete places in dynamic territorial …

Why belonging? Why geography? As we begin writing this guest editorial an e-mail alert
informs us of a call for papers for the Social and Cultural Geography Study Group of the RGS …

In this article, the authors interrogate the use of 'belonging'in Belonging, Being and
Becoming: the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (EYLF), Australia's first national …

The term “social licence to operate”(SLO), popularized in corporate usage over the last 20
years, is frequently used to refer to the level of social approval that exists in relation to the …

Abstract European Union financed Interreg programmes focusing on cross‐border region
building form an important part of the EU integration policy. The region building processes …

This article proposes a three-part framework for accounting for the physical and social
components of place as a system in community adaptation to crisis. While ideas of place …

Since the 1990s, neo-liberal economics has profoundly altered the nature and delivery of
early childhood education and care in both Australia and New Zealand through the creation …

Evictions have been shown to be a mechanism of primitive accumulation in nature
conservation. This paper adds an historical analysis to the discussion on primitive …