Exploring Profound Place Relationships

Authors

Ryan Howard and Tim O’Connell

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Abstract

How does place research currently capture the importance of Yosemite within John Muir’s life and written work or the value that the Boundary Waters Canoe Area had within Sigrud Olsen’s writings? Profound relationships with place guide the lives of many outdoor recreationists, both historically and presently. Within the academic literature, the intensity of a personal connection to place has been addressed through sense of place (Farnum, Hall, & Kruger, 2005), and more specifically, empirical investigations into the construct of place attachment (Williams, Patterson, Roggenbuck, & Watson, 1992; Williams & Vaske, 2003). This study proposes an extension to look beyond the confines of current place attachment research in an effort to better capture the profound and devoted relationships to places that outdoor recreationists experience.

Recommended Citation

Ryan Howard and Tim O’Connell (2014) "Exploring Profound Place Relationships," Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 23: Iss. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/taproot/vol23/iss1/9