Geographers deploy a panoply of theories and techniques to effectively study the meanings
that migrants attach to their mobility and settlement experiences. In particular, the …

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 …

We invite readers to dig for ganguri (yams) at and with Bawaka, an Indigenous Homeland in
northern Australia, and, in doing so, consider an Indigenous-led understanding of relational …

Studies framing “belonging” as a key focus and a central concept of research have
increased significantly in the 2000s. This article explores the dimensions of belonging as a …

A number of inter-related issues since the turn of the 21st century have resonated through
domestic and foreign policies across the world: ongoing violences and the war on/of terror …

This paper develops the concept of emotional citizenry, as a process grounded in the
complexities of places, lives and feelings, exceeding any fixed status of citizenship to be …

Attachment is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary cultural geography. Cultural
geography is full of relations that look like attachments. But attachment as a concept is …

Through a discussion of urban foraging in Seattle, Washington, USA, we examine how
people's plant and mushroom harvesting practices in cities are linked to relationships with …

This chapter introduces the key ideas, literature and theories of belonging across the social
sciences, as well as in education. It describes the different ways the concept of belonging is …

Everyone belongs: it is impossible not to belong to social groups, social relations or cultures.
However, some people belong to particular groups or places with more intensity than others …