Place and Lifestyle Migration: The Discursive Construction of ‘Glocal’ Place-Identity

Analyzing the concept of sense of place and its effect on the identity of place in new cities

The purpose of current article is to study the effect of sense of place on creating the urban identity in new cities. In order to fulfill the mentioned purpose, the key concepts of research and the theories related to the issue were studied. According to it, in order to collect the data, library method and note taking tool were used. The studies indicated the presence of human in the environmen...

the place of iranian public diplomacy in central asia

چکیده: نسبت به کارکرد و ماهیت دیپلماسی عمومی در جهان امروز نظریه های متعددی بیان گردیده و جایگاه آن در کنار نظریه های دیگر در محافل آکادمیک و دانشگاهی بررسی و تحلیل گردیده است. نظر به اهمیت دیپلماسی عمومی و جایگاه آن در سیاست خارجی ایران این نوشتار با تمرکز بر دیپلماسی عمومی در منطقه آسیای مرکزی تهیه و تنظیم شده است. این ضرورت از آنجا ناشی می شود که اولاً مفهوم دیپلماسی عمومی در سیاست خارجی ای...

Rationality and Discursive Articulation in Place-Making

Investigating effects of place identity components on the place attachment in Tabriz Historic Bazaar

Background & Aims: Historic bazaars are the dynamic hotspot of cities, have special social, economic and physical structures, and give identity due to their semantic characteristics; these points help in forming the place attachment. Tabriz Bazaar with its unique characteristics derived from the semantic and artistic The present study is aimed at determining the place identity components and ...

The Discursive Function of Place in "The Night when Sohrab was killed" by Bijan Najdi

One of the important functions of every Semiotic system is its local function. In a discourse, places have various roles such as objective, acting, being, abstract, narrative and mythical. In addition they have referential, narrative, tensional, metaphorical and transcendental functions and they play a role in creation of meaning. By strengthening objective and physical aspects of place, its co...