Identity-of-place

A conceptual framework

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ID12601659
AuthorsDina Brode-Roger (0000-0001-8554-6712, KU Leuven, corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume29
Issue5
Pages841-858
Publication date2026-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13678779261436049
OpenAlexW7147404466
LanguageEN
References cited18

This article introduces the conceptual framework of identity-of-place, a perspective that reorients how we think about and with place. Rather than treating place as a static setting or a resource for human identity, identity-of-place conceptualizes it as a dynamic, entangled, and historically situated conjuncture of biotic, abiotic, and non-biotic elements. Developed through research in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, this approach attends to the situatedness and conjunctural specificity of place, engaging with new materialist, posthumanist, and feminist epistemologies. By de-centering the human and resisting fixed categorization, identity-of-place offers a supple and responsive mode of inquiry—attuned to complexity, contingency, and change. It provides a relational, ecocentric analysis sensitive to the multiplicity and specificity of place, while advocating for more responsive and decolonial approaches to knowledge-making

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