From roots to rhizomes: Place, transitions, and translocality in a less stationary world [Chapter 15]

Abstract

In environmental and natural resource social science, place has often been characterized with rootedness and stationarity, which neglects important, dynamic connections between people and place(s). In this chapter, we (1) reexamine certain assumptions in place literature about human-mobility and place-change as necessarily jeopardizing the role of place(s) in our lives and (2) explore how a more relational, pluralistic, and dynamic view of place and place-making can help us navigate accelerating anthropogenic change and uncertainty. We hope that by moving from roots to rhizomes as an organizing metaphor for theorizing people-place relationships, this chapter invites an even more diverse cohort of scholars to examine the critical role of place in social-ecological- technical transitions.

Citation

Williams, Daniel R.; Miller, Brett Alan. 2024. From roots to rhizomes: Place, transitions, and translocality in a less stationary world [Chapter 15]. In: Sherren, Kate; Thondhlana, Gladman; Jackson-Smith, Douglas. Opening windows: Embracing new perspectives and practices in natural resource social sciences. Denver, CO: Utah State University Press/University Press of Colorado. p. 289-314.