Document Type
Article
Abstract
This study examines how residents of a Louisiana barrier island think about place in light of slow and rapid onset of coastal land loss. The island community has always faced change due to hurricanes, development, and erosion. Today the island, as well as the region, is faced with great environmental change due to coastal land loss. This paper uses a phenomenological approach to examine how change, caused by a range of environmental factors, is transmitted and understood by residents of Grand Isle, Louisiana. Residents convey a heightened awareness of place attachment, communicated through elements of fragility and uniqueness, that we claim is brought on by the continuing environmental disaster of coastal land loss.
Repository Citation
Burley, David, Pam Jenkins, Joanne Darlington, and Brian Azcona. "Loss, Attachment, and Place: A Case Study of Grand Isle, Louisiana." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 5, no. 3, 2025, pp. 1–15. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss3/3