Embeddedness, Part One — A Primer
<p>We’ve got friends — good people — moving away from this town of roughly 1,000. We’ve only been here three years or so — ourselves leavers of another place — and it’s not the first or second time this has happened. You know someone, and you envision a future with them in it — here, where here is bettered by them — and it doesn’t work out that way. To be clear, I don’t blame them. We’ve been there. But I do lament the loose ties we have to places. I yearn for the stability that the word “embeddedness,” at least to me, has come to represent. I sense some potency in the term.</p>
<p>Forgive me for ignoring the causes behind the absence of embeddedness — all of the standard push and pull factors, chasing education and jobs, the commodification and homogenization of places, housing pressures, the desire for instant gratification, “grass is greener” thinking, and so on. All of these matter, yes, but I want to focus on “embeddedness” the term, itself.</p>
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