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Using Walking Approaches and Site-Specific Performance to Reveal Layers of Feeling Attached to Place

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This paper aims to meet the desire for dynamic and multi-dimensional aspects of studying feelings attached to places. Starting with a contemporary example of a place in crisis and whose affective history seems linked to the 1984–85 UK miners’ strike, this paper argues for methodologies that avoid dr...

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ISSN: 2373-566X 2373-5678
Published: Informa UK Limited 2025
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