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A passion for place: the emotional identifications and empowerment of neighbourhood planning

This chapter addresses the passion for place that can be expressed in localism and its planning initiatives. Planning scholarship tends to shy away from the emotional realm and planners, in practice, assert their distance from attachment. The policy of neighbourhood planning in England is unusual in that it addresses people's emotional commitment to place. An exploration of its passions has much to offer in the understanding of localism and community planning. The chapter reviews the literature on place and place attachment and draws on social movement studies to understand how place is invoked in neighbourhood plans and how place attachment can mobilise collective action. It begins by introducing emplacement as an issue of social policy and a topic of academic and philosophical study. The chapter then moves on to discuss the connections between place attachment and community action and to introduce the concept of place identity framing as a tool of analysis. It also explores research with neighbourhood plans to understand how a convincing narrative of place attachment and place identity can be assembled, and how it can be used to mobilise community support.