Per Gustafson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest an analytical framework for the understanding of what makes places meaningful, and suggest that the results of empirical studies need not be limited to special places, but may also contribute to more general empirical and theoretical discussions regarding the roles and meanings of place in contemporary society.

TL;DR: It is argued that gender structures, reflected in gendered ideology and gendered practice, give rise to systematic gender differences in the perception of risk, and these gender differences may be of different kinds, and their investigation requires the use of qualitative as well as quantitative methods.

TL;DR: In the literature, social and behavioral science has often described place attachment and mobility as opposite and mutually exclusive phenomena, and regarded one as better or more important than the other as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Investigating experiences of transnational mobility, multiple place attachment and cultural differences among Swedish retirees pursuing seasonal migration between Sweden and Spain shows three ideal-typical transnational lifestyles: translocal normality, multilocal adaptation and routinised sojourning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted interviews with Swedish retirees, who spent their summers in Sweden and their winters in Spain, and found that anti-tourism may involve distinctions from devalued forms of tourism, and also distinctions based on different social roles and positions.