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Loneliness and the cultural, spatial, temporal and generational bases of belonging
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Franklin, A and Tranter, BK, Loneliness and the cultural, spatial, temporal and generational bases of belonging, Australian Journal of Psychology, 73, (1) pp. 57-69. ISSN 0004-9530 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2020 Australian Psychological Society
DOI: doi:10.1080/00049530.2020.1837007
Abstract
Sociologists and psychologists now agree on the signi!cance of belonging to the experience of
loneliness. Yet to date, this is unevenly re"ected in both survey instruments and qualitative
inquiry where the focus is mostly on belongingness attributed to social connectivity, social
support, intimate social bonds and interpersonal relationships. While these are very important,
recent work on belonging itself has stressed the signi!cance of much wider bases of belonging,
including place, temporality, memory, mobilities, generation, culture, labour processes, kinship
systems, residential arrangements, settlement patterns, the public sphere and more-thanhuman
factors. Drawing on evidence from sociology and other disciplines in the humanities
and social sciences, this paper brings these insights together for the !rst time in order to
develop a deeper consideration of belonging for loneliness research, and especially to identify
further sources of variation in loneliness. In this article we will concentrate on kinship, cultural,
spatial, temporal and generational bases of belonging, which while discrete are also often
interrelated and linked to wider social structural developments associated with individualism
and neoliberalism. We argue that this research is a necessary foundation for the "all-ofgovernment"
strategies on loneliness that are just beginning to gain favour and traction
through their consideration of individual and structural solutions.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | loneliness, Australia |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Sociology |
| Research Field: | Sociology not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
| UTAS Author: | Franklin, A (Professor Adrian Franklin) |
| UTAS Author: | Tranter, BK (Professor Bruce Tranter) |
| ID Code: | 140115 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 5 |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
| Deposited On: | 2020-07-28 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-10-29 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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