This book provides geographical perspectives on complex and multifaceted relationship between people and their lived environments. Scholars with varied regional, theoretical and topical specialties offer chapters that explore aspects of a phenomenon so pervasive that no conception of social or political action can afford to ignore it.

Alexander C. Diener is Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA. He works at the nexus of political, social, economic, and cultural geography, engaging topics such as geopolitics and borders, identity and migration, citizenship, development and mobility, and urban landscape change.

Joshua Hagen is Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA. His areas of research include borders and border theory; cultural politics of place names; demography, economics, and sustainability; and geographies of the pre-modern world.

1. The power of place in place attachment 2. Cognitive mapping as a method to assess peoples' attachment to place 3. Rurality as a key factor for place attachment in the great plains 4. Whose Puget Sound?: Examining place attachment, residency, and stewardship in the Puget Sound region 5. "Tied to the land": Pipelines, plains and place attachment 6. Indigeneity, displacement, and regional place attachment among IDPs from Crimea 7. The role of nostalgia in (re)creating place attachments for a diasporic community 8. Multi-scalar territorialization in Kazakhstan's northern borderland 9. Places of memory, historic preservation, and place attachment in Nazi Germany 10. Geographies of place attachment: A place-based model of materiality, performance, and narration