ABSTRACT
A sense of place reflects not only the place, but also the self, and a place usually has significant impact on people’s sense of themselves, their collective group belonging, and their behaviours. Grounded in social identity and environmental psychology literature, this chapter focuses on the correspondence of self to place, and discusses the fluid, dynamic, and sometimes ‘remote’ nature of one’s place identity. The chapter also discusses the role of place identity in reflecting an individual’s sense of place, as well as its characteristics from the point of view of its conceptualisation and theoretical development. Based on these understandings, positive and negative impacts of identity are explored in tourism and in the general mobility context. The implications of both hypermobility and incapacity to travel for place and personal identity, as well as feelings of a lack of connectivity, are argued to be significant, and are only now beginning to be appreciated.
