Background To serve the diverse needs of the ageing population, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has made ‘Care for the Elderly’ a strategic policy objective of the government since 1997. The objective of the policy is to improve the quality of life of our elderly population and provide them with a sense of security, a sense of belonging and a feeling of health...

Does the notion of organizational commitment apply to neighborhoods? Typically, sense of place is examined in relation to belonging and identification in communities, whereas organizational commitment is traditionally investigated in work settings. Based on apparent commonalities between the two constructs, we hypothesized that (a) neighborhood residents would experience them similarly, (b) the...

The concept and realization of family gender issues in socialist Poland was generally a contested topic. had remained core institution society—and yet, it underwent significant transformation due to changing life-style models social expectations. In the late 1960s, crisis officially acknowledged, as new expectations increasingly conflicted with shortage economic resources, systemic limitations....

This paper explores the ways in which identity and belonging are shaped by connectedness to place small coastal communities Tasmania, Australia. Based primarily on biographical interviews across three generations – young people, parents, grandparents it reveals centrality of a sense belonging. Two key themes, emerging from research explored. First, consistency narratives over time, with ‘island...

Highly diverse settings such as London (with people from ~179 countries speaking ~300 languages) are unique in that ethnic or socio-cultural backgrounds are no longer sufficient to generate a sense of place, belonging and community. Instead, residents actively perform place building activities on an ongoing basis, which we believe is of great importance when deploying interactive situated techn...

This paper concerns belonging in islands. Place-belonging conjures images of feeling at home somewhere, our case Given the emotionality belonging, we explore island through emotions. More specifically, apply concept aquapelago to and refer this as aquapelagic belonging. Bringing emotions, embodied perceptions mobility, discuss how these are assembled island-sea relations form In doing so, draw ...